Show animal needs wheels in asia barbary ar ary and south africa there is found a sheep which grows an amazing fat tail the enormous tails are due to an accumulation of fat carried there they may be as long as the and animal itself an and often weigh up to 80 pounds the natives greatly esteem the tail as a delicacy and to protect it from injury by dragging along the ground as well as to relieve the poor sheep of its weight the tail is fastened to a small trolley and as the animal grazes it tr trundles its tail 2101 along na behind in times of drouth when food is scarce the fat from th the e tail is slowly absorbed into the body and in this way acts as a store of food |