Coin-toss choice

Usage examples of tails.

These monkeys are distinguished not only by their peculiar black faces, with a ridge of long stiff black hair projecting forwards over the eyebrows, thin slim bodies and long tails, but by the absence of cheek pouches, and the possession of a peculiar sacculated stomach, which, as figured in Cuvier, resembles a bunch of grapes.

Further away a handful of kzinti discussed something with lashing tails, and the sounds of their snarling conversation occasionally rose above the thrum of machinery that pervaded the port.

To her, the dozing ankylosaur herd was a forest of immense stumpy legs and drooping tails that had no connection to each other.

Externally they differ considerably, especially in their long bushy tails, but in all essential particulars they coincide.

I must state that in fixing an arbitrary standard of 36 inches for tail, I have understated the mark, for the tails of most tigers exceed that by an inch or two, though, on the other hand, some are less.

Until sportsmen begin to measure bodies and tails separately it will, I fear, be a difficult matter to fix on any correct formula.

I begin to believe now in rats dipping their tails into oil-bottles, and other wonderful stories of murine sagacity that one reads of.

Peetie and Jackie, dancing about on the ends of their tails, for Bawly was supposed to chase after the balls.

Such high-cost evolutionary features, like peacock tails and moose antlers, are generally only seen in cases of runaway sexual selection, where a trait evolves until the evolutionary cost of displaying it counterbalances the tremendous reproductive advantage it confers.

Cherenkova looked at Yiao-Rrit and Chmee-Captain in front of her, leaning forward, tails twitching with ill-concealed eagerness, and realization dawned.

He went right between the tails and fell off into space, spinning wildly with the polarizer still on full thrust.

The crowd was juiced up, fangs exposed and tails whipping back and forth with the action.

From the sharp angle at which they held their ears and the attitude in which they carried their tails, Firekeeper immediately identified the One Male and One Female.

Her gait as she stepped forward to sniff tails with Blind Seer had lost most of its stiffness.

Blind Seer brought the blood welling up through the fur along one shoulder, not a one moved except where ears and tails flickered in comment to those who stood near.