Face to face. When the tip of a hummingbird's tongue gets into the liquid, it splits like a snake's

Face to face. When the tip of a hummingbird's tongue gets into the liquid, it splits like a snake's, but not to catch odorous molecules, but to collect sweet nectar.  And the tongue itself can protrude far out of the beak thanks to the long legs of the sublingual apparatus, which wrap around the skull, just like woodpeckers