It was called a mouse because it had a tail at one end.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

For example, that embryo that I showed on one of the first slides where there's clearly a head region and a tail region.

比如我在第一张幻灯片里展示的那种胚胎,已经有了明显的头部和尾部

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

"Well,this here Smiley had a yellow cow with one eye and no tail..."

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Justice Antonin Scalia rejected that argument, saying if a tail for one day by human officers is legal, then why not a tail by GPS for 100 days?

FORBES: GPS Case Leaves Justices Groping For A Rule

As these one-off boosts tail away, banks' earnings per share will grow more slowly.

ECONOMIST: The trials of megabanks

In one incident, a tail-lift failed while paramedics were attending to a patient who had had a cardiac arrest.

BBC: 'Third of South ambulances' off road due to defects