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A giraffe's tongue can be about 50 cm long — and it's bluish-purple.

A giraffe's tongue can be about 50 cm long — and it's bluish-purple.

A giraffe uses its long, grippy tongue to pull leaves from between sharp thorns. The dark bluish-purple colour is thought to work like sunscreen, protecting the tongue from sunburn while it feeds out in the sun all day.

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