How does an African Swallow grip the husks of a cocconut?
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It's not a question of where it grips it. It's a sheer question of weight ratio. A five ounce bird, cannot carry a one pound coconut.
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There is a fleshy flap-like structure called epiglottis that is situated in the throat, behind the tongue, at the entrance to the larynx, that is, at the point where the larynx and trachea (conduct leading to the lungs) and the esophagus (conduct leading to the stomach) meet. The epiglottis works as a valve that covers the entrance to the lungs while food is passing down the pharynx and into the digestive system; it's a safety mechanism to ensure that food particles don't damage the delicate respiratory organs. \nSo while we swallow (deglutition is the technical name for swallowing), we cannot breathe (=we're in apnea), because the entrance to the trachea is closed. \n\nThis is a diagram showing the position of the epiglottis:\nhttp://www.emedicinehealth.com/images/4453/4453-4468-10013-23657.jpg\nand here's an animation showing the right path for food (green) and the wrong path that can make one choke (red):\nhttp://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/epiglottis.gif
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"First the snake locates the head. All snakes eat their prey headfirst, it makes the swallowing of limbs so much easier. There are occasions where a snake will go tail first, but they are hardly normal.  \n\nAfter locating the head, the cornsnake then begins the process of swallowing. First it opens it's jaw and takes the animal into it's mouth. As this happens, the jaw will continue to expand around the animal until it has eventually covered the entire creature. Once the basics are done and the mouse has started to enter the snake's mouth, it then alternately moves it's jaws forward and to the sides. The snake actually moves one mandible at a time.  \n\nAll of the above are also assisted by powerful jaw and throat muscles, little teeth on the roof of the mouth and glands that secrete salivary juices which moisten the intended food item."\n\n"In a typical lizard we can see the loss of the Jugal bone which frees up the quadrate and allows for a wider swing of the jaw (thus allowing the lizard to swallow larger food items). In snakes, the jugal and the upper temporal has been lost. Note also how the mandibles are no longer connected to each other and can actually move freely of one another (a condition known as: mandibular liberation). The mandibles are only connected through a ligament that stretches between the distal end of each mandible. Along with that, each mandible has a joint midway down it which allows it to bow outwards. By having a stretchy lower jaw rather than a rigid one, snakes are capable of expanding their jaws to accomodate large prey."
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Actually its:\nWhat is the wind speed velocity of an unlaiden swallow?\nAfrican or European?
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it's similar to the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow.
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The tongue of birds is usually dry and keratinized (horny), therefore not much of its anterior dorsal surface is very sensitive. However, they possess taste buds that may be in the epithelial lining of the upper beak, in the anterior mandible, on the mandibular epithelium behind the tongue, and also ventrolaterally on the anterior tongue.
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An African or European swallow?
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Hey \n  every year i do a science fair project on plants and last year i learned how it happens.  First of all it is called absorbtion  Next, the water is sucked up by the ruts when the plant is looking for nutrients. then it takes the water to a different part of the (stomach) of the plant and it eats the water.\n  Hope i helped
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for turkeys you place it in your mouth with the flat part facing your lips. then you can get a video to help you hs strut has a great one or you can just fool around with it. elk calls are pretty much the same but with different mouth and tounge movements. just remember that you need to replace them every seasona nd place them in mouthwash after each use so that you dont get a sore throat or worse.
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The trachea in reptiles is similar to that of higher vertebrates, with well-developed hyaline rings.  However, there is no mucociliary transport mechanism to aid the removal of foreign substances from the respiratory tract.  Furthermore, the absence of a diaphragm prevents the animal from coughing. \n\nThe lungs are similar to the avian-type system with a series of reticulated open-ended sacs and many capillaries in close proximity.  The cranial part of the reptile lung is the gaseous exchange portion, while the caudal part functions as an air sac.  The latter may act as a reserve of air during periods of apnoea. \n\nAlveolar macrophages are present in the reptilian lung, but may display poor bacterial removal if the animal is being kept below its optimal temperature. \n\nIn snakes, the right lung is larger than the left, and generally stretches from the heart to the kidney.  It may extend even further down to the cloaca in some aquatic snakes.  Some snakes have a tracheal lung on the dorsal aspect of the trachea, which enables the snake to breathe when the main lung is compressed by swallowed prey.
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About the same as an African swallow (not to be mixed with the European one)
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They dont really eat anything as such. They have sensors sort of thing between the trap. When any foreign body, say bug, flies or even ur finger comes in it, it senses it and instantly the trap closes. then the nitrients from the body of the foreign body are extracted and used for the plant's nutrition.
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What do you mean, An African or European swallow?
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In most female mosquitoes, the mouth parts form a long proboscis for piercing the skin of mammals (or in some cases birds or even reptiles and amphibians) to suck their blood. As opposed to a syringe's typically smooth needle, the mosquito proboscis is highly serrated, which leaves a minimal number of points of contact with the skin being pierced — this reduces nerve stimulation to the point where the "bite" is not felt at all, which is generally the case .The females require protein for egg development, and since the normal mosquito diet consists of nectar and fruit juice, which has no protein, most must drink blood to get the necessary protein. Males differ from females, with mouth parts not suitable for blood sucking.
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It is a nut from the Buckeye Tree.  They are dark brown on the outside with a small light brown circle.  When on the tree they have a spikey husk.  They are poisonous to eat.
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i think its because of the air pressure. the air drags the feather up? i think
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Invertebrates, the starfish can turn its stomach inside out. It will the surround its prey and digest the food.  When the food is digested the stomach will return to its normal position.\n\nNasty eh?