Talk:Ghoul/@comment-1510022-20150130221547

Hm, I wonder if ghoul tongues have backward-facing, hooked papillae like cat tongues? It'd be helpful, to say the least, and might explain the impaired sense of taste.

http://www.petmeds.org/petmeds-spotlight/why-do-cats-have-rough-tongues/#.VMwBOWTF8VE

N.B., eagles have something similar, but not identical to this. Still, convergent evolution says it could happen again.