Garter tounge peeling?

[ConcinusMan]

I didn't say I can't see it. I said I never have. Not in all my years of keeping them.

[guidofatherof5]

I didn't even know about it up until a couple years ago when someone posted about it.
Now, I've witnessed it a few times in my snakes.

[Invisible Snake]

I've never heard about it up until joining this forum. Can anyone post an independent link confirming that snakes actually do this?

[jaleely]

Never heard of it, and i guess i'm blind because i only see the third picture showing a blurry curl of something lol
Just looks like a snake flicking its tongue out, in the second one.

It'd be interesting to keep an eye out for. Some other weird shed i've noticed before was a shed of the actual anus from my sand boa. She shed this complete shed, with the vent scale showing, and a folded in part where it *was* her opening and the whole outter layer of her cloaca. Only snake shed i've seen like that. All the others seem to tear off at that part, and leave a "vent hole" in the shed.

I suppose it makes sense that the tongue would shed...sure weird though!

Here's what i could find:
http://theexoticvet.com/wp-content/uploads/Shedding.pdf

[guidofatherof5]

Good link Melissa.

[Light of Dae]

I've seen it on my boy George. Some time he sticks his tongue out slowly n moves it around slow. Its neat to see him do that! Let alone the time he did it n his tongue looked like it was falling off for a second, lol. Just a thin little piece of skin... looked like a baby earthworm slid out of his mouth.

I had read on here about snakes shed their tongues so I knew what it was n didn't worry bout it.