%22Tails are wonderful appendages%2C%22 Fuller offers. %22They are signal flags that communicate an animal%E2%80%99s state of mind and a fly whisk to protect vulnerable portals. Pity we have lost ours but for the vestige coccyx%2C which has no independent wag left in it. Since wolves were re-introduced buffalo with only a stub of tail are a not an unusual sight%E2%80%A6I presume they lost their tails when they were young to raw jerky stick loving wolves that enjoyed the sport of snatching tails%E2%80%A6capture the flag%21.%22