Why do herbivores have rough tongues?

Answer 1

Lions' tongues are covered with hard, sharp papillae (roughness) used to scrape meat from bones.

Additional uses may include cleaning themselves and to help drink water. (Housecats use their tongues as a comb to 'brush' and clean their fur. The roughness also gets liquid molecules stuck between the spaces to help grab more water when lapping water).

to lick meat of the bone

Answer 2

Lion's teeth are used to kill prey and for eating. The canine teeth are sharp and allow them to grap hold of their prey. Their back teeth called carnassals are sharp like scissors allowing them to cut their prey into pieces.
Most mammals (including humans) have canine teeth, but lions, tigers, and all big cats have particularly large canines because they are carnivores (meat eaters) and need their canines to tear and pierce carcasses.

Answer 3

Lions' tongues are covered with hard, sharp papillae (roughness) used to scrape meat from bones.

Additional uses may include cleaning themselves and to help drink water. (Housecats use their tongues as a comb to 'brush' and clean their fur. The roughness also gets liquid molecules stuck between the spaces to help grab more water when lapping water).

Lions have rough tongues, just as cats and tigers and other closely related animals. The tongue actually has many small hard bristle like scales.

The purpose of this, is when they eat, they can grip their food with the tongue.

They can also lick a bone clean, and literally, rip small bits of meat off a bone just by licking it.
The rough tongues are for scraping meat of of a bone, but also for a better faster drink

Answer 4

Cats tongues are so rough so when I give birth it can clean its kitten better.

(This is only a female cat)

Answer 5

The rough tongue helps to abrade the plant material that they eat, allowing for better digestion.