... sharks off the Yucatán Peninsula indicate that stroke effort increases with filter feeding, particularly at the surface. Bio-logging Gigantism Planktivores Ram filter feeding Swimming kinematics Rhincodon typus As giant filter-feeding fishes, whale sharks ( Rhincodon typus Smith...

...-turbulence flow) at medium and high speeds. Surprisingly, fish used less oxygen in high-turbulence compared with low-turbulence flow at medium and high swimming speeds. Simultaneous measurements of swimming kinematics indicated that these reductions in oxygen consumption could not be explained by specific...

... metabolic rate indicated by high-speed transit to depth and negative buoyancy of long-finned pilot whales implies a costly diving strategy compared with that in other deep-diving toothed whales. Swimming kinematics Body condition Cetacean Deep-diving marine mammals Foraging strategy Globicephala...

... shows substantial modifications to swimming kinematics from routine behavior when ram filter feeding. Swimming kinematics Ram filter feeding Forage fish Anchovy The challenges of living in the dense, low-oxygen aquatic environment have driven the evolution of body plans and kinematic...

... cetacean diving, enabling studies of swimming energetics in wild animals. Gyroscope Accelerometer Magnetometer Specific acceleration Body rotation Swimming kinematics Many marine mammals and fish propel themselves with oscillations of the posterior body (termed caudal-oscillatory...

.... * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 11 2 2012 © 2012. 2012 sprint performance fatigue resistance ryanodine receptor dihydropyridine receptor swimming kinematics SERCA Locomotor performance represents the non-cognitive dimension of animal behaviour...

... in the region of reduced flow behind the object (drafting) or by swimming directly in the vortex street displaying a swimming kinematic that synchronises with the shed vortices (Kármán gait) ( Liao, 2004 ; Liao, 2006 ; Liao et al., 2003a ; Liao et al., 2003b ). For station holding, trout also use the high...

... when interacting with vortices present in the environment that are not self-generated. To demonstrate this, we measured axial swimming kinematics in response to changes in known hydrodynamic wake characteristics. We compared trout swimming in the Kármán street behind different diameter cylinders (2.5...

...). Burst speeds for 9-day-old ducklings were compared with predicted hull speeds, based on the waterline length of ducklings either resting in water or actively swimming. Kinematic analysis of video tapes showed a mean maximum burst speed of 1.73 m s -1 , which was four times greater than the predicted...

... as slender body theory (SBT) models are both restricted to somewhat non-realistic ‘slender body’ geometries, and they both fail to consider swimming kinematics. The present BEM model, however, is applicable to organisms with arbitrary geometry and correctly accounts for swimming kinematics; hence, it agrees...