Now, with the aid of slow - motion video footage, Dutch researchers have discovered that a mere 200 milliseconds before its tongue strikes, “a chameleon uses the accelerator muscle to spring - load energy into the intralingual sheathes, packing them into one another like sections of a telescope.
عرف العلماء ان لسان الحرباء يحتوي على انسجة متداخلة محاطة بعضلة تطلق هذه الانسجة بسرعة تدعى « العضلة المسرِّعة » .‏