Do spiders have tongues?

Actually, no, spiders do not have a tongue in the same sense we do. Their mouthparts- chelicerae (fangs), endites or maxillae (modified bases or coxi of palpi), palpi (feelers) and labium (a sort of "tongue")-act to manipulate prey and form the mouth.
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How many tongues does a spider have?

Spiders don't have tongues in the same way as humans, but they have different interesting structures such as the 'labium' in their mouths that enable them to catch animals and eat.
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Do spiders have lips?

While you might have seen hundreds of spiders (order Araneae) lurking in your lifetime, you probably never looked for signs of a mouth. Spiders do indeed have mouths. Although they have tiny mouths, the arachnids, unlike many animals, don't have the ability to chew their food.
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What animals dont have tongues?

Other animals naturally have no tongues, such as sea stars, sea urchins and other echinoderms, as well as crustaceans, says Chris Mah via email. Mah is a marine invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and has discovered numerous species of sea stars.
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Will spiders have teeth?

Spiders have no teeth, but they have two fangs, which are sometimes confused for teeth. Instead of using teeth, spiders use their fangs to insert venom into their target. Even though they don't have teeth, they're able to survive quite comfortably in the wild.
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Why do spiders have 8 eyes?

Spider eyes for spider lives

Jumping spiders are active hunters, like tiny lions chasing down their prey (bugs). They usually have eight eyes: two very large front eyes to get a clear, colour image and judge distance, and extra side eyes to detect when something is moving.
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Do spiders have blue blood?

Did You Know? Snails, spiders and octopi have something in common- they all have blue blood!
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Do ants have tongues?

Taste- Ants do not have a tongue, but they have finger-like palps around the mouth that have the ability to taste.
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Does a shark have a tongue?

Sharks have tongues, but it's not technically tongue…

Unlike other bigger fishes like dolphins that can stick their tongues out and make cute noises, sharks have what is known as basihyal. Shark's tongue is actually cartilage that is short, stout, very strong, but not flexible.
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What animal has no brain?

Almost all animals have a brain, but there are a few exceptions. There is one organism that has no brain or nervous tissue of any kind: the sponge. Sponges are simple animals, surviving on the sea floor by taking nutrients into their porous bodies.
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Do spiders have a heart?

The heart is located in the abdomen a short distance within the middle line of the dorsal body-wall, and above the intestine. Unlike in insects, the heart is not divided into chambers, but consists of a simple tube. The aorta, which supplies haemolymph to the cephalothorax, extends from the anterior end of the heart.
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Do spiders have feelings?

​​In short, biologically, spiders do experience feelings. Their neurons react to stimuli much like you and me; reactions that are reasonable for the situations that they're in. However, in terms of emotional feelings, the general consensus is that there isn't much.
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Do spiders have brains?

Spider Brain

One of the most amazing things about spiders is how much they can accomplish with such a small brain. The spider's central nervous system is made up of two relatively simple ganglia, or nerve cell clusters, connected to nerves leading to the spider's various muscles and sensory systems.
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Do fish have tongues?

Fish tongues however do not resemble the muscular tongues of humans. The tongue of a fish is formed from a fold in the floor of the mouth. In some species of bony fishes the tongue has teeth which help to hold prey items.
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Can spiders taste?

Spiders, in fact, do taste, and also smell, through special sensory organs on their legs, as well as on their pedipalps. And they hear – or, more specifically, they sense vibrations – through hairs and tiny slits distributed over much of their body.
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Can I kiss a tarantula?

So yes, in the end of this weird journey you can be reaffirmed in your opinion that under no conditions you would French kiss a tarantula. However, you can French kiss a honeybee. Only if it consents, obviously.
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Do turtles have tongues?

Turtles cannot protrude their tongues from their mouths, but they can smell. Flapping the loose skin under the chin or throat moves air over the Jacobsen's organ.
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Do sharks poop?

So, do sharks poop? They sure do! Every living animal that consumes food has to have a way of getting rid of waste.
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Do birds have tongues?

First, most birds have pretty prosaic tongues. They look somewhat similar to ours but can have some interesting extra features. As shown in Figure 1, the tips can be fringed or split and the root of the tongue may have backward-facing barbs.
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Do ants fart?

Yes. In insects, we usually call it the “gut,” but it does more or less the same things in insects that intestines do in humans. Third, does the gas an insect produces come out of its anus? Probably.
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Do ants go pee?

Ants do poop, though their excrement is usually referred to as frass, and is generally dry and powdery. However, they do not urinate, instead, removing the moisture from their urea to create uric acid, which is excreted as a solid with their frass.
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Can flies remove their head?

A female fly uses a superlong proboscis tipped with a bladed cutting organ to surgically remove the victim's head. The fly then drags the head away and either feeds on the goo and brain or lays an egg inside.
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Do spiders fart?

Since the stercoral sac contains bacteria, which helps break down the spider's food, it seems likely that gas is produced during this process, and therefore there is certainly the possibility that spiders do fart.
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Which animal blood is not red?

Octopuses, lobsters, and horseshoe crabs use hemocyanin, which has copper instead of iron, and is blue instead of red—that's why these creatures bleed blue. Other related molecules are responsible for the violet blood of some marine worms, and the green blood of leeches.
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What animal has pink blood?

One group of segmented marine worms has pink blood. This is because the molecule that carries the oxygen is a type of blood pigment, known as hemerythrin, which is described as pink or purple. A few species of segmented worms don't have any oxygen-carrying molecules at all, so their blood is colourless.
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