Salamander Missing The Fly (VIDEO)

University of Louisville

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In the second video, the fly alters its direction after the salamander launches its strike, so the tongue misses the fly, hitting instead the location where the fly would have been had it not changed its course.

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Bart Borghuis/University of Louisville

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