B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for April 01, 2019

Well, we start out with tails in the womb, but it gets absorbed later in gestation. Once in awhile, a baby gets born with a tail. In India, they have been worshipped.

Five animals without tails. Hmmmmmm, Well let’s see:

1) Octopus

2) Starfish

3) Chimpanzee

4) Gorilla

5) That poor donkey they keep trying to pin the tail on…….,

Spiders, ants, octopuses, frogs, protozoa, butterflies… As for humans, what is not used tends to disappear over time.

A tail of two cavemen!

Toads, orangutans, bees, gorillas, Manx cats (they have a stub, but so do some humans)

Actually, humans do have a tail. It’s called a coccyx or more commonly referred to as the tailbone. Shrunk due to that evolution thingy. You do know about shrinkage, don’t you?

Everything is in the de-tails!

The tail is always at the end and so is this very short tale.

Most animals are invertebrates, and do bot have tails.

Fact is most all animals including humans had tails at one time but some lost them thru evolution. Check it out ! Google it!

Who doesn’t want a little tail.

Plenty of humans have tales. They are called writers. (Or kids caught doing something wrong.)

Do we add snakes to the without tails pile, or decide they are all one big tail? Enquiring minds want to know.

I think having a prehensile tail would be neat. I guess I’ll have to settle for prehensile toes.

https://primcousa.com/animals-without-tail/

Was that an April fools joke?? I ask because it was not funny.

Uh, worms…. no wait, they’re all tail!

Current human config makes tailoring trousers much easier. Early humans probably started cutting their tails off for that reason. That, and trying to avoid getting them caught in swinging doors.

I guess the question should have been Name 5 mammals without tails! And I can’t.

Stone-age guys living in the desert probably wouldn’t know about octopuses or apes or even toads. And as for insects, that wasn’t what either would have in mind for ‘animal’ in this context. Just like if someone tells you they saw an animal in their backyard you know they aren’t referring to a bee or an ant. But where i do think the strip is somewhat unrealistic is that throughout most of human history mankind hasn’t seen itself as an animal: you had animals, you had man, and you had the gods. So it’s unlikely anyone back then would think it strange animals have something we lack or vice-versa.

I always wanted a tail just like my cat – sooo expressive.

I was thinking about how science fiction movies and tv shows so often depict alien creatures as basically humans with different facial features. Realizing how few species on Earth look anything like us, I highly doubt sentient life in the universe would mimic us so completely.

I know it’s easier to just put an actor in makeup than to CGI a different species, but even in a movie like Avatar (where CGI is used extensively) the ‘alien’ species is basically humanoid.

Koala, Manx cat

I understand we have a residual tail, thus the tailbone(Coccyx) but that does not negate the discussion. Why did we lose our tails?

Once in a while, humans are born with tails. They are usually removed surgically to keep them from being ostracized.

Obviously, these guys have NEVER had a broken tail bone. Thank god for rubber donuts. . .

Kale, Okra, Acorns, Walnuts, Kumquats…

Amoeba

We have tails, vestigial and verrrrrry short, but tails.

You had a tail! I had a tail! All humans had tails! In the womb. It disappears before birth. “Although the human tail is completely absent at birth, the embryonic tail is formed just as in other tailed amniotes.” [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29315541]

I think he means animals that should have tails. Octopi never will have tails. Apes of course.