Yep they normally have a whip for a tail, but they meet up with hardships out in the sticks here, lol. They do change colors, when that little critter is around on the back side of the dish, playing in the mount, which is black steel, he turns back to flat gray (and sits and watches me pulling weeds out of my little strawberry patch 10' away from that gray dish).
I was just amazed with the camera-never had one that would do close up pics, and it didnt scare him. This one claims it'll go down to 2.3", a macro mode or something. Got a lot to learn about it, hehe.