Various animals have tails, tailless birds and animals can be counted on fingers. Means, this body plays very important role in their life. It helps to survive, adapt to living conditions, to satisfy vital needs. The tail can be weapon, a wheel, the engine, with its help it is possible to attract the girlfriend or to be warmed in cold evening.
Instruction
1. The animals living on trees - proteins, martens, a sable, monkeys - use a tail as the balance weight and a wheel at jumps on branches. The tail turns in the necessary party and supports an animal in flight. At free-fall jumps the tail serves also as a parachute. To small steppe small animals, for example jerboas, the tail helps to maneuver too. They can turn sharply at great speed, involving a brush on the end of a tail. Kangaroos use the strong tail as a counterbalance at long jumps, and sometimes sit on it, as on a stool. The tail supports birds in air, it extinguishes air turbulences, dangerous to flight. Besides, it is necessary for them when landing.
2. The tail can prove the identity - for example, the tail of a skunk or lemur raised up. At a dog it expresses mood and intention, active wagging means joy and arrangement, and the put tail between the legs speaks about a fright or submission. At cat's everything occurs on the contrary - the angry cat swings a tail here and there.
3. Some rodents use this body as a warehouse of fat stocks. The jerboa dwarf living in deserts of Central Asia and is called - zhirnokhvosty. Before hibernation he strongly eats and tries to save up more subcutaneous fat which part is postponed in a long tail. Also the tolstokhvosty sumchaty sleepyhead living on islands of the Australian archipelago arrives. Zhirnokhvosty breeds of sheep are known, at some individuals the fat tail reaches 80 kg. Fishes also accumulate fat reserves in the tail.
4. Horses, cows and other hoofed animals drive away tails of annoying insects - flies, gadflies, gadflies who are sitting down them on a back. At crocodiles and monitor lizards the tail serves as a scourge which they beat off the attacking predators. These huge lizards also use the tails as the tool during attack. A powerful tail the crocodile forces down the victim from legs and drags off under water.
5. Some animals, having got in teeth to the enemy, dump the tails to survive. The lizard in a dangerous situation strains muscles and breaks to herself a backbone in the place of a sting. After a while at it grows a new tail.
6. The male of the lirokhvost living in Australia at the sight of a female spreads a wonderful tail, forming over himself a silvery dome. Only adult males can brag of such tail - on an otrashchivaniye of this beauty more than seven years leave. The peacock during marriage dances also spreads the beautiful tail a fan for attraction of a female. Though if to carp, it is not a tail, and plumage of the lower part of a trunk. Entice females, making fluctuations by a tail, uglozuba - the little tritons living on Kuriles.