Actually, the bible does NOT say that the tail is comparable in size to a cedar tree. You are misquoting the bible. Shame on you.
The bible says the tail moves like a cedar, and I would think they were referring to movement of the branches.
Incidentally, the hippo has an interesting use for his tail. I was at the zoo once and saw a hippo poop with his butt about 8 feet from a wall. As he pooped, he spun his tail leaving a 10 ft diameter spatter pattern on the wall. My immediate thought was the old saying: where were you little man when the s... hit the fan? On further thought I realized that this would be a good method of dispersing the poop in the water to be carried away, rather than leaving it in large globs to contaminate the pool the hippo lived in.
The bible says the tail moves like a cedar, and I would think they were referring to movement of the branches.
Incidentally, the hippo has an interesting use for his tail. I was at the zoo once and saw a hippo poop with his butt about 8 feet from a wall. As he pooped, he spun his tail leaving a 10 ft diameter spatter pattern on the wall. My immediate thought was the old saying: where were you little man when the s... hit the fan? On further thought I realized that this would be a good method of dispersing the poop in the water to be carried away, rather than leaving it in large globs to contaminate the pool the hippo lived in.