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submitted 4 months ago by helena@lemmy.eco.br to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

There is probably a good reason we don't - it evolved out because we seem to be benefited by hiding our emotions

Though the causal link might be the other way around - if we were better with dealing with expressed emotion we could have kept the tail

Could probably look at the taxonomy to see when we lost it and what happened to our tailed brethren

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Other apes lost their tail as well, but they don't hide their emotions.

[–] Flummoxed@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a source for that?

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

Orangutan Jungle School.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or it has little to do with emotions at all and more to do with physical changes based on environment.

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

True, prehensile tails are super useful for swinging around in trees

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago

I don't see why we wouldn't be able to control our tails, just as much as we can control our facial expressions.