What is the function of a cat's tail?

Answer 1

What is the tail?

The tail is the posterior elongated part of a cat that extends beyond the trunk or main part of the body.

Where is the tail located?

The tail is located at the end of the vertebral column. In other words, it is the hind-most part of the backbone.

What is the general structure of the tail?

About 10 percent of a cat's bones are in the tail - up to 20 supple and articulated caudal vertebrae depending on the species, breed and individual. These are largely enclosed by a versatile musculature that make the various segments, especially the tip, capable of finely graded movements that lift the tail, move it from side to side, lower it or curl it around the body. Interestingly, the domestic cat is the only cat species able to hold his tail vertically while walking.

Part of the musculature is formed from muscles associated with the rectum, the anus, and the pelvic

diaphragm.

Answer 2

To some extent, a tail may just be an evolutionary hold over; tails are very useful to fish, since they help the fish to swim, and in animals that evolved from fish, there is some tendency to retain the tail even though it is not as useful. However, the tail of a cat can be used to help it balance (not that it usually has much trouble balancing, with four feet) and can be used to signal its mood, to other cats.

Answer 3

Yes, cats have many many small bones in their tail.

Answer 4

For balance and whatever else the cat does with it.

Answer 5

Cats got their tails...well legend has it that cats get their tails by having "sex" with a rabbit. Their tails also help in balance :)

Answer 6

a cats tail helps to keep the animal balanced

Answer 7

a bone or something else

Answer 8

Bones (vertebrae). Up to 20 of them.

Answer 9

Tail.