What Animal Has The Longest Tongue. Most adult chameleons have a tongue that's as long as the animal's body and tail combined. The mammal with the proportionally longest tongue is the south.
Chameleons catch insects by firing their sticky tongues at them, and range is extremely important, because even a stealthy chameleon can only get so close to a fly without startling it. The most famous tongue in the world belongs to one of the most colorful animals in the world: It’s twice as long as the animal itself (including its tail).
The bee itself is less than 1 inch (2.54 cm) long, but its tongue extends as far as 1.32 inches (about 3.4 cm) — about twice the length of the bee's body.
Mochi may have the longest tongue on a living dog, but the longest tongue on a dog (ever) belonged to brandy, a boxer, and measured an incredible 43 cm (1 ft 5 in). The giant anteater has the longest tongue in the animal kingdom. That can be twice the length of their body, and as. She lived with her owner john scheid in st clair shores, michigan, usa, until september 2002.