 The tongue can be extended outside the mouth, and is often long.In the beaded lizards, whiptails and monitor lizards, the tongue is forked and used mainly or exclusively to sense the environment, continually flicking out to sample the environment, and back to transfer molecules to the vomeronasal organ responsible for chemosensation, analogous to but different from smell or taste.In geckos, the tongue is used to lick the eyes clean