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.

The Cocker's tail is customarily docked in North America.

The tail is customarily docked soon after birth to approximately two-thirds of the original length.

They have an upright tail which was previously customarily docked.

The pony's mane is most often roached ( hogged ), and its tail is docked or braided so that it will not snag the rider's mallet.

The head and legs are proportionate in size to the body, and the ears and tail are natural ( not docked or cropped ).

Many English fattening pigs are kept in barren conditions and are routinely tail docked.

However, 80 % of UK pigs are tail docked.

The tail is set high and in the past was docked to approximately five inches in order to provide a sufficient hand-hold for gripping the terrier.

Puppies are born with tails in different lengths ; and, in Canada and the United States, the tail is usually docked the day after birth.

If the tail is docked, it must be at the 3rd or 4th caudal vertebra.

Bulldogs are one of the few breeds whose tail is naturally short and either straight or screed and thus is not cut or docked as with some other breeds.

Boot was originally drawn with a short tail ( on one occasion he met a bob-tailed sheepdog, and on hearing the name decided to call his own tail Fred ), but Maurice Dodd later discovered that real Old English Sheepdogs ' tails are docked, and so over the course of several years Collins drew his tail shorter and shorter until it vanished altogether-Boot still appears completely white, rare for the breed.

A noticeable difference between the two breeds is that the Pembroke tail is usually docked, while those of Cardigans are mainly left to grow long and bushy.

The tail was traditionally docked at the first or second joint or Natural Bob Tail (" stumpy ").

* Sir Oliver — An older horse who had his tail docked, to his great annoyance and discomfort.

The tail can be docked short, a natural bob-tail, or naturally long with a crook in the end, so long as its carried below the topline at rest and in motion.

Its body is long, and it has a naturally long, bobbed, or artificially docked tail and erect ears.

This gene means that the breed is naturally born with a tail or with a bobtail of varying lengths, but most puppies are docked after birth.

The tail is commonly docked, although this is now prohibited in some countries.

The docked tail should not be too long or too short but should balance the appearance of the head and body.

The tail is typically docked to two-fifths of the natural length.

Traditionally, the tail is docked and at maturity it should measure approximately 6 inches.

In countries where docking is legal, the tail is generally docked at about 4 – 5 inches ( 10 – 13 cm ) in field-bred dogs while show dogs generally are docked closer to the body.

She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??

When I drove a car with tail fins, I had plenty status at the wind-and-water oases.

If the intruder persisted, a biting lunge was usually launched at either the tail region or the naso-labial grooves.

The tail may have a constriction at its base to allow it to be easily detached.

* In a diode, it is the positive terminal at the tail of the arrow symbol ( base of the triangle ), where current flows into the device.

It has a cylindrical body with four wings at mid-body and four tail fins.

Some types of worms, such as leeches, also have an enlarged ganglion at the back end of the nerve cord, known as a " tail brain ".

Adult height is about at the shoulder and length is, including a tail of.

Chordates, members of the phylum Chordata, are deuterostome animals possessing a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail for at least some period of their life cycles.

Some species, such as the Lesser Dwarf Lemur, store fat at the hind legs and the base of the tail and hibernate.

Coyotes typically grow to in length, not counting a tail of, stand about at the shoulder and weigh from.

The largest specimens were hippopotamus-sized: about from nose to tail, standing tall at the shoulder and weighing up to.

FBI agents, pushing a sled out of the open airstair, were able to reproduce the upward motion of the tail section described by the flight crew at 8: 13 pm.

No parts are left at the airport after conversion from aircraft to ground vehicle, as the main wing and tail retract into the vehicle body.

The strings are gathered at the tail like an archtop guitar, but the top is formed from thin spruce ( like a flat-top or classical ) forced into a shallow dome.

Godzilla has the advantage at first, eventually knocking Kong down with a vicious drop kick, and battering the gorilla unconscious with powerful tail attacks to his forehead.

The tail itself is across and deeply notched at the center while its edges taper to a point.

Detailed calculation of the efficiency of a hydropower turbine will account for the head lost due to flow friction in the power canal or penstock, rise in tail water level due to flow, the location of the plant and effect of varying gravity, the temperature and barometric pressure of the air, the density of the water at ambient temperature, and the altitudes above sea level of the forebay and tailbay.

Modifications that manufacturers made to recover some of the lost distance, by increasing tail drag ( using holes, rough paint or dimples ), were outlawed at the end of 1991 and marks made using implements with such modifications removed from the record books.

They then slap the ball with their tail flukes, either stunning or killing up to 10 – 15 fish at a time.