The enormous extensile power of the mouth and œsophagus thus enables snakes to swallow animals, the size of which is several times in excess of their own diameter.
The upper and lower maxillaries are united by an extensileligament and articulated with the tympanic bone, which permits the mouth to be opened very widely when the animal swallows its prey.
The Indian tapir has a more powerful and extensile trunk than the American, and its skull shows in consequence a greater space for the attachment of the muscles.
It is really astonishing to see what large morsels they can dispose of with the assistance of their extensile mouths and stomachs.
Wrasses feed principally on molluscs and crustaceans, and are provided with extensile telescopic lips that enable them to pull the former from the rocks on which they creep, and the latter from their hiding-places among the rocks.
As indicated in the accompanying illustration, the long-snouted phalanger is arboreal in habits, extracting honey and probably small insects from long-tubed flowers by means of its extensile tongue.
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