A hindrance to furries?

[Novil Ariandis]

Heh, how convenient that you do not quote the part where I said something to the effect of "this isn't ment to be a serious topic, let's just go along with it".

No, you didn't say that, at least I don't find it in here:

An excerpt from Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale...

Or maybe even... furries?

I know that most furries who have avatars of themselves in anthro form do it because they want one and the anatomical difficulties (apparently) posed by tails are the least of their worries.
I'm not telling them to change but this paragraph made me think of them. What if this actually was true for furries, their tails being a hindrance? It may look cute and cuddly but it may also impend their walking.

[Tom Flapwell]

You may recall that Sully's chair in Monsters, Inc. had a hole in it. Only upon viewing the DVD extras did I and my family understand that it was for his tail.

[FerretParade]

Give Jack some credit man...I think you are pretty dumb if you think he was like seriously valuing the importance of this article. Either that or you are one big interent butt...hehe. Anyone can tell it's just a fun what-if topic.

In other words knock it off with the flame bait 'cause I will totally go for it.

[Tom Flapwell]

I hadn't heard of Richard Dawkins before this thread, but he's come up on another webcomic forum and (I think) one of the LiveJournals I read lately as well. Sheesh.

[Muninn]

The part I quoted from the book should be taken seriosuly IF the subject interests you. The connection to furries was and is a what-if idea, like Fanatic said, and if people can't read into that then they should be a little more careful.

[Holyman83]

I think color blindness would be a far greater problem than a fuzzy little tail, but all of it is things that you could get use to. (as for the eye, just use human eyes )

[Muninn]

Actually in some cases, dichromats (two-way colours) have a special condition where they see a certain colour more vividly than maybe even trichromats (three-way colour) and use it to their advantage. Also, birds and turtles are tetrachromatic (four-way colour).

[Tom Flapwell]

Fully colorblind people are better at seeing in the dark.

[Rooster]

My friend is fully colourblind. Never seems to slow him down much, except, he's not allowed to drive a vehicle.

[osprey]

I know someone who is partially colourblind...basically, he sees different colours than us.

[Raz]

I think color blindness would be a far greater problem than a fuzzy little tail, but all of it is things that you could get use to. (as for the eye, just use human eyes )

As far as I know, most mammals can see green and blue, but not red... Which is why animals that appear red-ish and easy to see to us (like Tigers) are really well camouflaged for most other mammals... Cause instead of red, they see green.

But I don't think that would be much of a problem...

[The MAZZTer]

My friend is fully colourblind. Never seems to slow him down much, except, he's not allowed to drive a vehicle.

Huh? I thought, at least in the US, this was legal (eg you know how traffic lights have different bulbs for each color).

[Muninn]

My friend is fully colourblind. Never seems to slow him down much, except, he's not allowed to drive a vehicle.

Huh? I thought, at least in the US, this was legal (eg you know how traffic lights have different bulbs for each color).

Can they tell when they're lit up? If they can it shouldn't be a problem.

[Loeln]

Honestly; the human body is without any extended tail for a reason.

[CodeCat]

I doubt the invention of the car, door, bike and shoe would have had much influence on the evolution of humans, though.