How tongues stick out
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“Muscular hydrostats” are cool. 😎 Tongues, elephant trunks, and octopus/squid tentacles are the classic muscular hydrostats. Basically, you can change the shape of a “water balloon” by squeezing it — and a tube full of muscles is like a water ballon that can squeeze itself into different shapes. Kooky.
Tongues are muscular hydrostats.