“…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, 2000), 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) and raccoon dog and fox (Emura et al, 2006). Such studies reveal variations in morphology and distribution of papillae on the dorsal lingual surface among animal species.…”