Not only did a range of behaviors associated with stressful situations change, but bold fish lines also displayed a more elongate body with a larger tail region and generated higher velocity and acceleration during fast - start startle responses. (sciencedaily.com)
Dogs sniff each others» tail regions when the meet as a way of «reading» each others» scent - name. (thesprucepets.com)
But Bernard Thisse, an embryologist at the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire in Cedex, France, noticed something fishy: When head and torso organizer cells were grafted onto other embryos in zebrafish, the tail region never quite developed completely. (sciencemag.org)