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The order Caudata ( from the Latin cauda meaning " tail ") consists of the salamanders, elongated, low-slung animals that mostly resemble lizards in form, though this is a symplesiomorphic trait and the two groups are no more closely related than salamanders are to mammals.
Salamanders lack claws, have a scale-free skin, either smooth or covered with tubercles, and a tail that is usually flattened from side to side and often finned.
Locomotion on land is by walking and the tail often swings from side to side or is used as a prop, particularly when climbing.
In aquatic salamanders and in frog tadpoles, the tail has dorsal and ventral fins and is moved from side to side as a means of propulsion.
Some species in the Plethodontidae have a weak zone at the base of the tail and if the salamander is in danger or if the tail is grabbed by a predator, it breaks off, a process known as autotomy.
Adipose tissue is another important means of storing energy and this occurs in the abdomen, under the skin and, in some salamanders, in the tail.
The " tail " is only possessed by the male and is an extension of the cloaca and used to inseminate the female.
A few days later, the tail is reabsorbed, due to the higher thyroxine concentration required for this to take place.
The tail is regenerated later but the energy cost to the animal of replacing it is significant.
The ears are disproportionately long, and the tail is very thick at the base and gradually tapers.
An aardvark's length is usually between, and can reach lengths of when its tail ( which can be up to ) is taken into account.
An aardwolf is about 55 to 80 centimeters long, excluding its bushy tail about 20 to 30 cm long, and one stands about 40 to 50 cm tall at the shoulders.
One rumor is that Page was asked to leave after eating a fish tail with a neighbor.
The tail is long in the male and long in the female.
The most common description is that of a kangaroo-like creature with the face of a horse, the head of a dog, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail.
The strings are gathered at the tail like an archtop guitar, but the top is flatter.
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They have three pairs of external red feathery gills, a blunt head with two rudimentary eyes, a lateral line system and a short tail with fins.
The tail is very short or absent, the ears are small or absent as well, and the external genitalia are hidden in slits or depressions in the body.
The species of genus Phodopus are the smallest, with bodies long ; the largest is the European hamster ( Cricetus cricetus ), measuring up to long, not including a short tail of up to.
The Chinese hamster ( Cricetulus griseus ), although not technically a true " dwarf hamster ", is the only hamster with a prehensile tail ( about 4 cm long ) — most hamsters have very short, nonprehensile tails.
The tail is short, and fibre is long, woolly and soft.
On average, these stout-bodied rodents will grow to be between long, including the short tail, and weigh between.
Other distinguishing characteristics that set Pteranodon apart from other pterosaurs include narrow neural spines on the vertebrae, plate-like bony ligaments strengthening the vertebrae above the hip, and a relatively short tail in which the last few vertebrae are fused into a long rod.
The markings on these feathers remain through each molt, with bars on the wings and white under and at the edges of the short, notched tail.
Chaetognaths swim in short bursts using a dorso-ventral undulating body motion, where their tail fin assists with propulsion and the body fins for stabilization and steering.
Immature sperm are released from the testes to mature inside the cavity of the tail, and then swim through a short duct to a seminal vesicle where they are packaged into a spermatophore.
The breed has a broad chest, shoulders and hips with short legs, round paws and a plush but not fluffy tail that ends in a round or blunt tip.
They are among the smallest parrots, characterized by a stocky build, a short blunt tail, and a relatively large, sharp beak.
The fur of an adult dingo is short, bushy on the tail, and varies in thickness and length depending on the climate.
The pika ( ; archaically spelled pica ) is a small mammal, with short limbs, rounded ears, and no external tail.
In Africa the short tail streamers of the juvenile Barn Swallow invite confusion with juvenile Red-chested Swallow ( Hirundo lucida ), but the latter has a narrower breast band and more white in the tail.
It often perches bobbing spasmodically with its short tail uplifted on the rocks round which the water swirls and tumbles.
It has a short and broad bluish-green tail with a black tip.
It has finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc of sensory, vibrissa-like feathers, a large grey beak, short legs, large feet, and wings and a tail of relatively short length.
They are generally smaller than the common agoutis and have a very short tail ( 5 to 7 cm ), while the common agoutis lack a tail.
The lion ( Panthera leo ) is a large carnivorous feline of Africa and northwest India, having a short, tawny coat, a tufted tail, and, in the male, a heavy mane around the neck and shoulders.
True crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting " tail " ( = short, = tail ), or where the reduced abdomen is entirely hidden under the thorax.
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The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.
He went into a whirling dance, a sort of blind chasing of the tail.
A chicken with six tits and a tail lak a corkscrew.
the crupper under his tail seemed to be old stuff.
`` I want the fish served whole, with head and tail '', the epicure explained, `` and serve it with lemon in mouth ''.
One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).
their classes of animal and plant terms are restricted to generalizations or recurrent parts ( fish, bird, tree, grass, horn, tail, bark, root ).
Once the soldiers from the barracks had to hold the ship from blowing away while Fogg revved the engine and got the tail up.
`` Tailin' '' was the throwin' of an animal by the tail in lieu of a rope.
Any animal could when travelin' fast, be sent heels over head by the simple process of overtakin' the brute, seizin' its tail, and givin' the latter a pull to one side.
Though the slightest yank was frequently capable of producin' results, many men assured success through a turn of the tail 'bout the saddle horn, supplemented sometimes, in the case of cattle, by a downward heave of the rider's leg upon the strainin' tail.
Seizin' the bull by the tail, he rushed his hoss forward and a little to one side, throwin' the bull off balance, and `` bustin' '' 'im with terrific force.
A `` lineback '' was an animal with a stripe of different color from the rest of its body runnin' down its back, while a `` lobo stripe '' was the white, yeller, or brown stripe runnin' down the back, from neck to tail, a characteristic of many Spanish cattle.
Her tail no longer lashed.
Just the tip of her tail was moving as she crouched, and she was treading lightly up and down with her hind feet.
John himself was bruised and clawed from head to tail, but he was in this fight to the finish, running almost as strongly now as in the morning.
Using a steering system that controlled the modified rocket's tail surfaces and wings equipped with ailerons, Fiedler was to land the missile on a skid especially bolted under the fuselage.
When I drove a car with tail fins, I had plenty status at the wind-and-water oases.
The `` peacock tail '' nozzle throws a giant fan of water 100 feet wide and 40 feet high.
`` If I was your mama, I'd wop your tail off ''.
Maggie had shaken himself awake and was licking the sand off his stubby whiskers and his long plume of a tail.
It had four sturdy limbs, a neck, a tail with fins and a skull very similar to the lobe-finned fish, Eusthenopteron.
Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.
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