swim speed
Integration between swim speed and mouth size evolves repeatedly in Trinidadian guppies and aligns with suction feeding fishes
... Three general linear models (GLMs) were used to assess the relationship between mouth size and swim speed in guppies. These models differed in how they accounted for fish body size and the degrees of ...
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Stroke patterns and regulation of swim speed and energy cost in free ranging Brünnich's guillemots
... (including number 13) were fitted with loggers that recorded depth at 1·Hz and acceleration at 32·Hz (2-axis capacitive sensor, ADXL202E, Analog Devices, Norwood, MA, USA). The latter packages could measure both dynamic ...
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Women achieve peak freestyle swim speed at earlier ages than men
... For coaches and athletes, the knowledge of the age of peak performance in an endurance performance might be of higher interest than knowing the time course of the age- related decline in performance. When coaches and ...
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Emperor penguins adjust swim speed according to the above water height of ice holes through which they exit
... increase swim speed without strokes for the final seconds before exit and they only increased the steepness of their body angles as they surfaced, which indicates that the speed required for leaps by ...
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Regulation of stroke pattern and swim speed across a range of current velocities: diving by common eiders wintering in polynyas in the Canadian Arctic
... average swim speed can require the maintenance of a constant contraction rate, stroke duration, and work per stroke, all while altering stroke frequency and/or gliding between ...of swim speed ...
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Swim speed and movement patterns of gravid leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) at St Croix, US Virgin Islands
... with swim speed showed a close linkage between swim-speed type and dive profile ...by swim speeds), turtles slowed their rates of travel as they descended until they reached the bottom ...
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Swim Speed Tests as a Method for Differentiating the Profiles of Young Swimmers
... Th e focus of this study is an attempt to distinguish between the potential short-distance and a longer-distance swimmers, as well as the swimmers who could have desirable profi les for particular swimming styles. Th e ...
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A comparison of medley and freestyle performance for national and international swimmers between 1994 and 2011
... medley swim per- formance for both men and women across ...medley swim speed for both female and male Swiss swimmers at national level and the international elite competing in the finals at the world ...
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Swimming strategies and energetics of endothermic white sharks during foraging
... given swim speed (Weihs, ...given swim speed during ascending phases of deep dives compared with horizontal swimming, and that the costs of deep dives are ...high speed during surface ...
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Regulation of stroke and glide in a foot propelled avian diver
... In addition to the loss of heat to cold water and the limitation of oxygen stores, diving seabirds are faced with a number of other physical difficulties (Kooyman, 1987; Butler and Jones, 1997; Lovvorn, 2001). Firstly, ...
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Ontogeny of swim performance and mechanics in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)
... calf swim performance, thus our primary interest was to quantify changes with age in swim speed and the associated swim effort (peak- to-peak fluke stroke amplitude and tailbeat ...length, ...
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Optimal swim speeds for traversing velocity barriers: an analysis of volitional high speed swimming behavior of migratory fishes
... between swim speed and fatigue time is presented in ...the swim speed–fatigue time relationship; uncertainty arising from all sources, including censoring, is reflected in the standard error ...
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The Behavioural Phenotype of pThr175-Tau Expression in the Hippocampus of Female Adult Sprague Dawley Rats
... There was no significant effect of treatment on (A) average swim speed, (B) total distance traveled, (C) time spent in the platform zone, (D) latency to reach platform zone, (E) time s[r] ...
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How fast does a seal swim? Variations in swimming behaviour under differing foraging conditions
... the speed estimates obtained from visual data were significantly higher than those from TDR records (paired t-test, ...recorded swim speed therefore provides a noisier index of true swim ...
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Lift and drag performance of odontocete cetacean flippers
... Select hydrodynamic performance parameters for the cetacean flipper models tested 2 m s–1 swim speed match trials Common name scientific name catalogue number Amazon river dolphin Inia g[r] ...
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High diving metabolic rate indicated by high speed transit to depth in negatively buoyant long finned pilot whales
... cruising speed during propulsive swimming for the transit between surface and depth against the body mass of deep-diving toothed whales ...cruising speed of sperm whales, beaked whales and bottlenose whales ...
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King penguins adjust their diving behaviour with age
... Statistical analyses were computed using the R statistical environment (version 2.11, R Development Core Team). PDBA, swim speed and PDBA/speed were analysed using a likelihood mixed regression ...
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Dynamics of the aerial maneuvers of spinner dolphins
... The ultimate spin rate achievable by the animal now depends on the time between when the pectoral fins emerge and when the flukes finally clear the water and can no longer produce a torque. This time, in turn, is ...
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Northern elephant seals adjust gliding and stroking patterns with changes in buoyancy: validation of at sea metrics of body density
... swimming speed, depth and three-axis acceleration with a high-resolution data ...descent speed were largely ...maintain swim speed within a narrow range, despite changes in ...
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Pectoral fin locomotion in the striped surfperch I Kinematic effects of swimming speed and body size
... Swimming speed was increased in 0.2 SL s −1 steps from 0.6 SL s −1 to the speed at which the fish could no longer prevent itself from contacting the downstream baffle of the working ...maximum speed ...
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