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Why Do Cats Have Tails?

Cats are very expressive animals, which helps cat owners pick up on their moods quickly. Understanding the language of their ...
DEAR PET TALK: Why do animals have tails? — Animal Lover DEAR ANIMAL LOVER: Tails are simply amazing. Do you wish you had one? If you love climbing trees, you could use a prehensile tail, such as ...
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Why do dogs wag their tails?

Both animal experts and Max Planck of the University of Rome tried to answer the age-old question, why do dogs wag their tails? A dog’s tail is used to balance and swat away pests in the wild, but the ...
Getting greeted at the door by a wagging tail is one of the purest pleasures of owning a pooch. No matter how big, small, or fluffy your dog’s tail is, they will move it around, often at great speed!
Lemurs, lizards, whales — all are famed for their tails in some way. But which animal has the longest tail of all? In proportion to their bodies, grass lizards have the longest tails of any known ...
Sooner or later, everybody who lives with a dog finds himself asking the question "Why does my dog have a tail?" It turns out that there are several good reasons why tails are a useful piece of ...