28. Snakes and Catfish

Weird Animal Facts: Explicit

Taste! Stick out your tongue and read this out loud as you do so! Welcome to week 3 of our 5 week series on the five senses where we tongue the sense of taste like French kissing your high school boyfriend by looking closely at the tongues and tastes of snakes and catfish.
Snakes, or nope-ropes, are known for that long forked tongue. But what's the point? The taste....or smell? Its kind of both, but since this episode is about taste, we talk about that (tune in next week for smell!). Working perfectly with their Jacobson's Organ, snake are able to follow to smells/taste of a mouse in order to get their dinner! (They also can follow the smells of a sexy lady snake). Also, learn why you were lied to as a child about your taste bud zone (ITS A LIE!).
Catfish: The tongues of the sea. Like really, this sounds like I'm just making it up but a catfish is literally a giant tongue! Every time you touch a catfish its licking you...with its skin. Its gross but true. And with all these weird animal facts about the catfish we play a few round of "Would you Rather?" and we get you to really think about your choices in life.
Scientific Names:
Copperhead snake: Agkistrodon contortirix
Fer de lance snake: Bothrops asper
Channel Catfish: Ictalurus punctatus
Candiru: Vandellia cirrhosa
If you aren't too terrified of snakes and want to help them out you can support snakes by donating to this link:
https://www.snakeconservation.org/
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