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Leaping Behavior In Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys Molitrix): Analysis Of Burst Swimming Speeds, Angle Of Escape, Height, And Distance Of Leaps
… height, and angle of escape as well as their burst speed. Video tapes of fish leaps were obtained from populations of carp in Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois. Additionally, morphometric and environmental data were measured at each site. Carp reached mean leap heights of 124 cm with a …
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Shape change for global vorticity shedding and added mass energy recovery
… can be used to our advantage in developing burst speed capability in flexible bodies, inspired by the impressive escape ability of octopodes enabled by their dynamic mantle shape change. For the octopus, the dynamic shape change, from an initially hyper-inflated nearly spherical shape to a …