Which statement about chemoreception in snakes is false?
A) Snakes use their forked tongue to smell the environment.
B) Information from the tongue of a snake is interpreted in the main olfactory bulbs.
C) The tongue provides olfactory information more rapidly than does the flow of air to the lungs.
D) The tongue brings olfactory molecules to the vomeronasal organ.
E) Information provided by the tongue aids in communicating with conspecifics and in hunting prey.
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