What is interesting is that his positive qualifications for the post were revealed only as a kind of tail to his candidacy.

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.

It had four sturdy limbs, a neck, a tail with fins and a skull very similar to the lobe-finned fish, Eusthenopteron.

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.

They grow to a size of only 13 to 28 cm, with a tail that is very long, sometimes up to one and a half times as long as the body.

The hamster tail can be difficult to see, as it is usually not very long ( about 1 / 6 the length of the body ), with the exception of the Chinese dwarf hamster, which has a tail the same length as the body.

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 largest and tallest of the galloping hounds, in general type he is a rough-coated, Greyhound-like breed ; very muscular, strong though gracefully built ; movements easy and active ; head and neck carried high, the tail carried with an upward sweep with a slight curve towards the extremity ".

The Lesser Kestrel ( F. naumanni ), which much resembles a small Common Kestrel with no black on the upperside except wing and tail tips, is probably not very closely related to the present species, and the American Kestrel ( F. sparverius ) is apparently not a true kestrel at all.

Bright colorations and showy ornamenations, such as those seen in many male birds, in addition to capturing the eyes of females, also attract the attention of predators ; when a male peacock spreads its tail, it is beautiful, but very obvious ( though this may actually be advantageous to the survival of the male's offspring and the breeding population as a whole ; see below ).

Pliny the Elder mentions the oryx and an Indian ox ( perhaps a rhinoceros ) as one-horned beasts, as well as " a very fierce animal called the monoceros which has the head of the stag, the feet of the elephant, and the tail of the boar, while the rest of the body is like that of the horse ; it makes a deep lowing noise, and has a single black horn, which projects from the middle of its forehead, two cubits in length.

alt = Black and white photograph of the comet, its nucleus brilliant white, and its tail very prominent, moving up and to the right

The Superb Lyrebird and some birds-of-paradise, due to very long tails or tail coverts, are longer overall.

Although very beautiful, the male lyrebird's tail is not held as in John Gould's painting, nor as in the portrayal of the Superb Lyrebird on the 1932 postage stamp ( featured on this page above the photo of John Gould's painting ).

This was a large angular biplane with gull-type upper wings, wheel spats, a good collection of interplane and fuselage struts and very generous tail surfaces.

Most armadillo also possess a urophysis, a neural secretory gland very similar in form to the posterior pituitary, but located in the tail and associated with the spinal cord.

They are built somewhat like pigs, with large heads relative to their bodies, stout necks, and rounded rumps with no tail of any consequence ; some of the sounds they emit are very similar to those made by pigs, and they also spend a large amount of time eating.

Considering that these trains are obviously deleterious to the survival of the individual due to the more brilliant plumes being very visible to predators and the longer plumes making escape from danger more difficult, Zahavi theorized that only the most fit males could survive the handicap of a large tail.

Coatis have a long brown tail with rings on it which are anywhere from starkly defined like a raccoon's to very faint.

The tail was almost certainly long, up to 50 cm ( 20 inches ) in female specimens, and very broad.

He has a long, detachable tail with a pink bow on the end, of which he is very fond, but that he is also prone to losing ( Owl once mistakes it for a bell-pull ).

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.

* Mira has tail nearly 13 light years in length ( BBC )

Hence satyrs are most commonly described in Latin literature as having the upper half of a man and the lower half of a goat, with a goat's tail in place of the Greek tradition of horse-tailed satyrs ; therefore, satyrs became nearly identical with fauns.

A continuous rocker is a smooth curve that does not change from tip to tail, while a three-stage rocker has two distinct bend points, almost like a skateboard deck but not nearly as drastic.

Unlike Triadobatrachus, Prosalirus had already lost nearly all of its tail and was well adapted for jumping.

Sciaenids have a long dorsal fin reaching nearly to the tail, and a notch between the rays and spines of the dorsal, although the two parts are actually separate.

Within this short distance, the water concentration drops from 2M on the headgroup side to nearly zero on the tail ( core ) side.

The mane and tail remain red or have only a few white hairs, while the body ranges from nearly chestnut to pinkish.

* P. v. innominatus, which breeds in south-west and southern Iran, is like karelini but with nearly white cheeks, throat and chest and more defined barring on the tail.

The male snake wraps its tail around the female with their vents nearly touching.

This fish has relatively large scales, a long body, and a tapered tail, with the dorsal and anal fins extending all the way to the small caudal fin, with which they are nearly fused.

Bamboo rats vary in size, from the lesser bamboo rat, which is typically 15 to 25 cm long ( head and body: tail length is 6 – 8 cm ), and weighs from 500 to 750 g, to the Sumatra bamboo rat, which can reach lengths of nearly 50 cm with a 20 cm tail, and weighs up to 4 kg.

* fuscicaudatus in peninsular India has nearly complete breast band and no white tip to tail

The extensive dorsal and anal fins may merge or nearly merge with the tail fin.

It reaches a length of 9 to 13 cm ( 3. 5 to 5 inches ) from snout to vent or up to nearly 34 cm ( 13. 5 in ) total length ( including the tail ).

The tail is dark brown and the " train " is made up by elongated upper tail coverts ( more than 200 feathers, the actual tail has only 20 feathers ) and nearly all of these feathers end with an elaborate eye-spot.

The crew of the Surprise, having nearly been shipwrecked by the tail of a typhoon, finally discover the Norfolk wrecked on a reef by the same typhoon and her crew encamped on an island.

The adult male of this species is about 17 cm long, but the long tail streamers nearly double the birds length.

There are several subspecies, including I. cyanea malayensis from the Malay Peninsula, where the male differs in having the undertail coverts longer, nearly reaching to the tip of the tail.

Although no complete individuals were found, some material was found in association, including a nearly complete tail, hip, several dorsal vertebrae and some limb elements of one individual.

This material includes a nearly complete series of tail vertebrae, several vertebrae of the back, a sacrum with five sacral vertebrae and both ilia, both femora and an ulna, and is included in the mounted skeleton at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.