Passive versus active engulfment: Verdict from trajectory simulations of lunge-feeding fin whales Balaenoptera physalus

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 6, Issue 40, 2009, Pages 1005-1025

  Potvin, J ^a   Goldbogen, J A ^b   Shadwick, R E ^b  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hydrodynamics; Lunge feeding; Rorqual whales

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FEEDING; FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MUSCLE; SIMULATORS;

CAVITY WALL; CROSS FLOW FILTRATION; ENGULFMENT; HYDRODYNAMIC DRAG; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; LUNGE-FEEDING; MECHANORECEPTORS; MUSCLE ACTION; MUSCULAR ACTIONS; RORQUAL WHALES; TRAJECTORY SIMULATION; WATER PRESSURES;

WATER FILTRATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOW; HYDRODYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; LUNGE FEEDING; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRESSURE; SWIMMING; THROAT; WHALE;

BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; BALAENOPTERIDAE; CETACEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70349770803     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0492     Document Type: Article

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