Emperor penguins adjust swim speed according to the above-water height of ice holes through which they exit

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2549-2554

  Sato, Katsufumi ^a   Ponganis, Paul J ^b   Habara, Yoshiaki ^c   Naito, Yasuhiko ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Biologging Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Data logger; Emperor penguins; Gravitational potential energy; Kinetic energy; Leap

Indexed keywords

ICE;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PENGUIN; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIOMECHANICS; ICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPHENISCIDAE; SWIMMING;

APTENODYTES FORSTERI; AVES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 23144450633     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01665     Document Type: Article

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