Timing is everything: Coordination of strike kinematics affects the force exerted by suction feeding fish on attached prey

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 3328-3336

  Holzman, Roi ^a   Day, Steven W ^b   Wainwright, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kate Gleason College of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Force; Kinematics; Lepomis macrochirus; Prey capture; Strike performance accuracy; Suction feeding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; SUCKING; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOUTH; PERCIFORMES; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

CALLIANASSIDAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LEPOMIS MACROCHIRUS;

EID: 35848951382     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.008292     Document Type: Article

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