Submerged swimming of the great cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis is a variant of the burst-and-glide gait

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 208, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 3835-3849

  Ribak, Gal ^a   Weihs, Daniel ^a   Arad, Zeev ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Burst and glide; Drag; Gait; Great cormorant; Paddling; Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis; Swimming

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; GAIT; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; GAIT; SWIMMING;

AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX CARBO; PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS;

EID: 27744541664     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01856     Document Type: Article

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