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mohesmOriginal Poster
May 18, 2011Why do animals have tails ?
I always wonder, why do they have them? Apart from animals who use it for locomotion, as fish, and for hanging, as monkeys, some animals seem to do nothing with their tails.
I've read once that lizards are caught by the predators from their tails, so they get rid of it and leave it with the predator and run away.
Here tails are not an advatage.
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- GA
May 18, 2011Cats use for balance, dogs to show emotion, some animals as fly-swatters! Gator1
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May 18, 2011Lizards lose their tails to prevent them from being dinner, go home, relax, and grow another one. I'd say that's fairly advantagous.
MikeReactReply - MOmohesmOriginal PosterMay 18, 2011[quote]Lizards lose their tails to prevent them from being dinner, go home, relax, and grow another one. I'd say that's fairly advantagous. Mike[/quote] But they were caught from their tails. Then why do they grow it again? I mean that lizards' tails are the thing that they are caught from. "a disadvantage"ReactReply
- MOmohesmOriginal PosterMay 18, 2011Well, I found something useful about tails. In mice and rats "as lab animals", when we inject them intravenously we select a vein in their tailReactReply
- SR
May 18, 2011We humans lost our tails, after we were walking on our rear paws
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