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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)t; a barnacle and allow a player to easily slip past it. In a similar fashion, by setting alight an explosive barrel at the right 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 prey dosen't fight back, dies before consumption and the "bone break" dosen't effect Freeman.
 
(contracted; show full)ion pack ''[[Half-Life: Opposing Force|Opposing Force]]'', Black Mesa scientists have been able to successfully detach barnacles, albeit with a high failure rate. The player can use a detached barnacle as either a weapon or as a grappling hook. Both functions take advantage of the affinity of their tongues for [[Biological matter|organic matter]].

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