Sink fast and swim harder! Round-trip cost-of-transport for buoyant divers

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 3622-3630

  Miller, Patrick J O ^a   Biuw, Martin ^a   Watanabe, Yuuki Y ^b   Thompson, Dave ^a   Fedak, Mike A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Cost of transport; Drag; Swimming gait

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; DIVING; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; DIVING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEALS, EARLESS; SWIMMING;

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; MIROUNGA;

EID: 84866843837     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.070128     Document Type: Article

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