Believe it or not, the animal with the longest tail also has a pretty long neck. The giraffa camelopardalis, also called the camel-leopard by the ancient Romans is on record as the amimal with the longest tail. The male giraffe has a longer tail than the female. This skinny guy's tail can grow up to an incredible eight feet in length!
The female giraffe's tail may not be as long, but like the male, she has blunt, skin-covered horns on her head. The reason the Romans called them camels is because giraffes can go up to one month without a drink of water!
Archiologists discovered that prior to the giraffe, the animal with the longest tail was a dinosaur called the Diplodocus. From a dig to recover this huge animal in 1878, they found from the skeleton that the Diplodocus' tail was almost three times as long as its body!
The female giraffe's tail may not be as long, but like the male, she has blunt, skin-covered horns on her head. The reason the Romans called them camels is because giraffes can go up to one month without a drink of water!
Archiologists discovered that prior to the giraffe, the animal with the longest tail was a dinosaur called the Diplodocus. From a dig to recover this huge animal in 1878, they found from the skeleton that the Diplodocus' tail was almost three times as long as its body!
