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[[Image:HalfLife Barnacle.jpg|thumb|300px|A barnacle, as seen in ''[[Half-Life]]'' ('''left''') and ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' ('''right''').]]

(contracted; show full)ght moment, a player can kill a barnacle attempting to eat it (or even several closely-placed barnacles). It also seems that the Barnacle tries to wrap its tongue around the target tight enough to break bones and kill it. This is based on the observation that [[bird]]s as well as Resistance or Combine troops die before they even reach the main body, merely by virtue of being caught. Turning on closed captions and then being captured by the barnacle reveals the sound file is called "Barnacle Neckbreak.
" [[Gordon Freeman]] is unaffected by the tongue's crushing attempts, probably due to his H.E.V. suit's neck-covering extension. An alternative explanation might be that tongue incapacitates the barnacle's prey by means of some poison. A third theory is that the barnacle snaps the spine of its victim which would explain why its prey doesn't fight back and dies before consumption and also why the "bone break" doesn't affect Freeman.
 
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[[ru:Барнакл]]