Strouhal numbers and optimization of swimming by odontocete cetaceans

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1633-1642

  Rohr, Jim J ^a   Fish, Frank E ^b  

^a SSC San Diego   (United States)

^b WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cetacean; Delphinapterus; Dolphin; Globicephala; Lagenorhynchus; Odontocete; Orcinus; Pseudorca; Stenella; Strouhal number; Swimming; Tursiops

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CETACEA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; TAIL; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CETACEA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWIMMING; TAIL; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; DELPHINAPTERUS; DIGENEA (FLUKES); GLOBICEPHALA; GLOBICEPHALA MELAS; LAGENORHYNCHUS; LAGENORHYNCHUS OBLIQUIDENS; ORCINUS; ORCINUS ORCA; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PSEUDORCA; PSEUDORCA CRASSIDENS; STENELLA FRONTALIS; TURSIOPS; TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS;

EID: 2442618233     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00948     Document Type: Article

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