SCIENCE
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2006-02-06_DJ_15.wmv">A honey-colored retriever named Max tries to lick Cheryl of the Clue Crew as she pets him at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.</a>)  Veterinarians refer to this area of an animal's body as the posterior or this region, from the Latin for "the tail"'
the caudal region