If animals need their tail to sway and balance, why animals without tails or short tails don’t fall off?

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Edit: I mean, why animals with broken or cut off tails, don’t have any problems balancing?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I’m no expert, but I think most animals with no tails or really short tails tend to have really stocky, stable legs, and do not tend to be fast runners or agile jumpers that put themselves in situations where they often lose their balance. Bears, tortoises, badgers, etc do not have the same sort of lifestyle as cats, monkeys, rats etc