essay on if i had a tail
Answers
This is the time of year that I regret not having a tail. If I had one, I could curl it around my nose as did Nellie and Polly this morning, the thermometer descending toward single digits. Better yet, I could use it to wag from the shoulders back, like Willie does when Jim comes home. Or perhaps I could toss it up into the air, stiff and straight, and leave a committee meeting in a huff, my tail rising up like a standard held high in medieval England. I’m not sure where that image comes from, given that I’ve never left a committee meeting in a huff in my life. But then, it doesn’t mean I haven’t wanted to, and if I did, wouldn’t a raised tail make it that much more effective?
The fact is, tails are amazing things. Just look at all the functions that tails provide: BALANCE (see Willie on the left), WARMTH (foxes), SOCIAL SIGNALS (see earlier blogs on tail wagging translations and lateralization in tail wags), LOCOMOTION (fish), PREDATOR DEFENSE (lizards who drop their tails if caught, deer who flash the underside of their tails when pursued), THERMOREGULATION(Ah Ha! Now we know why those poor rats have naked tails.), COURTSHIP (see the elegant Tom turkey below), WEAPONRY (alligators and scorpions), PEST DEFENSE (horses), GRASPING (New World Monkeysand prehensile tails). Whew. No wonder I’m feeling the lack of a tail.
hope dis helped you Please Mark this answer as brainlist