Rabbit and fowl

TONGUE (RABBIT AND FOWL)

Rabbit

  • The tongue is comparatively thin
  • The tip is blunt
  • It possesses filiform, fungiform, vallate and foliate papillae
  • The vallate papillae are few in number
  • The root presents a wide and white coloured prominence, which extends upto the middle of the tongue at the dorsal surface

Fowl

  • It is narrow and triangular and the apex is pointed in front
  • Muscular tissue is very little
  • The root presents a transverse row of pointed horny papillae whose apices are directed backwards
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