tail

     

The tail is the section at the rear en of an animal's body; in general, the term refers to a distinct, flexible appendage to the torso. It is the part of the body that corresponds roughly to the sacrum and coccyx in mammals and birds. While tails are primarily a feature of vertebrates, some invertebrates—including scorpions and springtails—have tail-like appendages.

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  • All sharks have at least one dorsal fin & one caudal fin, better known as this
  • You should know from the get-go that a gecko can regenerate this body part
  • Koko the "talking" gorilla named her pet kitten "All Ball", probably because it lacked this feature
  • Monday's special is named for this appendage; what do they do with the rest of the ox?
  • Unlike monkeys, apes lack this often prehensile appendage
  • As a noun, it's the rear portion of an aircraft; as a verb, it means to follow & keep under surveillance
  • This part of the glass snake breaks off to help it escape when grabbed
  • The part of the male lyrebird that's shaped like a lyre
  • When a tadpole becomes an adult frog this anatomical feature is absorbed by its body
  • Puppy appendage(4)
  • On the squirrel monkey of South America, this may be 16 inches long
  • This part has 4 to 10 black rings; counting them won't tell you the raccoon's age
  • To escape predators, many lizards break off this body part; it later regenerates
  • The tuatara, which waits until it's about 20 to mate, has one of these that grows back after it breaks off
  • If you're a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater...suggest that he wear" this appendage
  • The pocket gopher uses this almost hairless appendage as a sense organ to feel its way in the dark
  • Most old world monkeys just use it for balance; it's prehensile on many new world monkeys
  • Anatomical feature absorbed by its body when a tadpole becomes a frog
  • With marmosets, this is almost twice as long as the body
  • Never grab your pet leopard gecko by this body part; it can come off when the gecko is stressed
  • On a giraffe the tongue is prehensile; on the kinkajou this 15-20" feature is
  • The box kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave in the 1890s, is so stable that it doesn't need this usual kite feature
  • Some monkeys use this as a fifth limb; it's prehensile, after all
  • Varying in number, the caudal vertebrae of a dog are found in this body part
  • You might queue up for queue de boeuf, a French term for this part of an ox
  • Legend says that the Manx cat lost this feature by slipping into Noah's Ark just as the door was closing
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates at a chalkboard.) For the way it curls, Germans call our @ sign the Affinschwanz or this part of a monkey

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