...Isaac J. Yeaton; Shane D. Ross; John J. Socha ABSTRACT Flying snakes (genus Chrysopelea ) glide without the use of wings. Instead, they splay their ribs and undulate through the air. A snake's ability to glide depends on how well its morphing wing-body produces lift and drag forces. However...

... State Reserve, CA, USA. The seals moved using a series of rhythmic undulations produced by dorsoventral spinal flexion. The traveling spinal wave moved anteriorly along the dorsal margin of the body with the chest, pelvic region and foreflippers serving as the main points of contact with the ground...

... and orientation in squid, resulting in the production of different vortex wake flows. Cephalopod Vorticity Fins Flapping Undulation Proper orthogonal decomposition 3D velocimetry Squid swim, unlike most other nektonic animals, using a combination of coordinated pulsed jetting and fin movements...

...Erin L. Blevins; George V. Lauder SUMMARY Rajiform locomotion in fishes is dominated by distinctive undulations of expanded pectoral fins. Unlike other fishes, which typically interact with the fluid environment via multiple fins, undulating rays modulate a single control surface, the pectoral disc...

... in environmental flow. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 23 12 2009 © 2010. 2010 undulation locomotion hydrodynamics hair cells lateral line Fish use a number of sensory systems to stabilize their body orientation and to direct their swimming. To stabilize during...

... to the body and the influence of body stiffness on the undulatory wave speed and cycle frequency at which gar choose to swim. * e-mail: [email protected] . 8 8 1996 ©The Company of Biologists Limited 1996 skin scales ganoid scales swimming undulation undulatory waves...

... of Biologists Limited 1995 stiffness undulation speed mechanical modeling swimming fish. In order to swim, fish transfer momentum to the surrounding water by passing waves of bending down their bodies. By changing the shape and speed of these traveling waves, they modulate the mechanical...