Originally posted by: AreaCode707
Originally posted by: Rubycon
Originally posted by: polarmystery
Originally posted by: Rubycon
Fish tail off by 90 degrees. A marine mammal (aka cetacean) moves their tail up and down not side to side as fish do. 😉
Does it not move up and down from that picture? It doesn't look like it moves side to side since the fin is parallel to her body
Fish with a vertically oriented tail move it side to side, marine mammals with a horizontally oriented tail move it up and down. If a mermaid's tail was oriented like a fish it would be very difficult to move it from side to side.
Based on Disney's scientific documentary "The Little Mermaid", I concluded that mermaids can move their tails in any direction, like spaghetti, disregarding any type of anatomical law.
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