Additional "Sense"-sational Facts about Taste

• The complete inability to taste is called ageusia.
• The reduced ability to taste is called hypogeusia.
• The enhanced ability to taste is called hypergeusia.
• A giraffe's tongue can be up to 29 inches (74 cm) in length.
• Insects can taste with their feet, antennae, and mouthparts.
• Fish can taste with their fins and tail as well as their mouth.
• Usually girls have more tastebuds than boys.
• Taste is the weakest of our five senses.

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