Assertion: monitor's tongue | /r/HasProperty | forked
Facets:
value: in monitor lizards
type: OTHER
value: long
type: DEGREE
value: in whiptails
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Like other varanids, Bengal monitors have a forked tongue that is protruded in the manner of snakes.
text: They use their long forked tongues as snakes do, flickering to detect prey through scent molecules in the air.
text: Monitors are the only lizards that have a forked tongue.
text: In the beaded lizards, whiptails and monitor lizards, the tongue is forked and used mainly or exclusively to sense the environment, continually flicking out to sample the environment, and back to transfer molecules to the vomeronasal organ responsible for chemosensation, analogous to but different from smell or taste.
text: They use their long forked tongues as snakes do, flickering to detect prey through scent molecules in the air.
text: Like all monitors they have a forked tongue.
text: Like all goannas and snakes the sand monitor has a forked tongue, with which it "tastes" the air.