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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | One trope that catches animators when portraying fish or cetacean (whale, dolphin and porpoise) characters in cartoons is to have them walk on their tailfins (or tail flukes if a cetacean) when on land. This makes even less sense than a cow with a prehensile tail - cow tails are relatively rigid, but prehensile tails are viable, whereas tailfins just aren't meant to support an animal's weight - but it's easier to show a fish walking on its tailfins than on its pelvic fins.
It makes slightly more sense with pinnipeds (walruses and seals), whose flippers are their back feet, or for merpeople whose tail is shown as homologous to a pair of legs. |
