Which animal has the longest tail?

krzys44

giraffe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_body_part Dec 01 08, 7:27 AM

Baloo55th

Nice try, but keep looking, folks. The giraffe's only got the longest of any land mammal. Come in snakes and whales for measuring. Line up over there. Thanks. Though how you decide where their tails begin is beyond me. Dec 01 08, 8:40 AM

IcrPortugal

Snakes actually have tails? I thought it was just their body. Its gotta be the giraffe is says so here http://www.blurtit.com/q484701.html Dec 01 08, 10:05 AM

Baloo55th

Snakes do have tails - it's just hard to decide where they start. A good way to estimate it is by looking at a lizard like the slow-worm and an ordinary lizard of the same overall length. Anything after the back legs is going to be tail, so you can get a proportion to apply to the legless slow-worm. Looking at figures for the blue whale, I find that they can grow to about 100' overall length, with a tail 20-25' wide. I would reckon that 20 foot width will need more than 8' length to support it. http://www.angelfire.com/mo2/animals1/cetacean/bluewhale.html Everyone seems more interested in the width rather than the length - when it comes to whale tails, at least. I think San Diego Zoo would not have put the 'land' in if there wasn't a longer one at sea. Dec 01 08, 11:10 AM