Swimming gaits, passive drag and buoyancy of diving sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 207, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1953-1967

  Miller, Patrick J O ^a,b   Johnson, Mark P ^b   Tyack, Peter L ^b   Terray, Eugene A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Diving; Drag; Physeter macrocephalus; Sperm whale; Swimming gait

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVING; GAIT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIDEORECORDING; WHALE;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; DIVING; GAIT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SWIMMING; VIDEO RECORDING; WHALES;

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; MACROCEPHALUS; MAMMALIA; PHYSETER CATODON; PHYSETERIDAE;

EID: 3042637777     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.00993     Document Type: Article

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