Hydrodynamic properties of fin whale flippers predict maximum rolling performance
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Hydrodynamic properties of fin whale flippers predict maximum rolling performance.
Maneuverability is one of the most important and least understood aspects of animal locomotion. The hydrofoil-like flippers of cetaceans are thought to function as control surfaces that effect maneuvers, but quantitative tests of this hypothesis have been lacking. Here, we constructed a simple hydrodynamic model to predict the longitudinal-axis roll performance of fin whales, and we tested its ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.137091