Top 10 Animals Whose Tails are Longer Than Their Bodies

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1 Peacock The peafowl include two Asiatic bird species (the blue or Indian peafowl originally of India and Sri Lanka and the green peafowl of Myanmar, Indochina, and Java) and one African species (the Congo peafowl native only to the Congo Basin) of bird in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, ...read more.
2 Lemur Lemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar. The word "lemur" derives from the word lemures (ghosts or spirits) from Roman mythology and was first used to describe a slender loris due to its nocturnal habits and slow pace, but was later applied to the primates on ...read more.
3 Great Argus
4 Ring-tailed Mongoose
5 Lyrebird
6 Cacomistle
7 Red Bird-of-Paradise
8 Resplendent Quetzal
9 Marvelous Spatuletail Hummingbird
10 Dwarf Mongoose
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11 Ring-Tailed Cat

That is the longest cat tail, that I've ever seen.

12 Long-Tailed Paradise Whydah
13 Coquerel's Sifaka
14 Violet-Tailed Sylph
15 Blue Bird-of-Paradise
16 Long-Tailed Widow Bird
17 Ribbon-Tailed Astrapia

Its tail is approximately 3 times longer that its body. But sometimes the ratio is over 3. The bird body is usually about 30 cm long and its tail is about 1 meter long.

18 Emperor Bird-of-Paradise
19 Huon Astrapia
20 Thresher Shark
21 South American Coati
22 Red Ruffed Lemur
23 Albino Peacock
24 Superb Lyrebird
25 Greater Racket-Tailed Drongo
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