How do cormorants counter buoyancy during submerged swimming?

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2101-2114

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

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Cormorant; Diving; Kinematics; Phalacrocorax; Underwater

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVING; ISRAEL; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DIVING; ISRAEL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX; PHALACROCORAX CARBO;

EID: 3042615978     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00997     Document Type: Article

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