“…In the order Carnivora, there have been many SEM studies of the tongues of cat (Boshell et al, 1982;Kobayashi et al, 1988), dog (Iwasaki and Sakata, 1985; Kobayashi et al, 1987), mongoose (Iwasaki et al, 1987), Japanese weasel (Furubayashi et al, 1989), sea otter (Shimoda et al, 1996), Asian black bear (Inatomi and Kobayashi, 1999), bush dog (Emura et al, 2000a), panther and Asian black bear (Emura et al, 2001), lion (Emura et al, 2003), tiger (Emura et al, 2004), silver fox (Jackowiak and Godynicki, 2004), raccoon dog and fox (Emura et al, 2006) and Japanese marten (Emura et al, 2007). In the order Rodentia, there have been many SEM studies on the tongues of the rat (Iwasaki et al, 1997), mouce (Kobayashi et al, 1989), guinea pig (Iwasaki and Miyata, 1985), flying squirrel and nutria (Emura et al, 2001). In the order Artiodactyla, there have been SEM studies of the tongues of the cow (Chamorro et al, 1986), Formosan serow (Atoji et al, 1998), pig (Kullaa-Mikkonen et al, 1987), one-humped camel (Qayyum et al, 1995), saiga (Frey and Hofmann, 1995), blackbuck and barbary sheep (Emura et al, 2000b).…”