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Fish Exploiting Vortices Decrease Muscle Activity

Published in Science • Nov 28, 2003
Authors:
James C. Liao
,
David N. Beal
,
George V. Lauder

Abstract

Fishes moving through turbulent flows or in formation are regularly exposed to vortices. Although animals living in fluid environments commonly capture energy from vortices, experimental data on the hydrodynamics and neural control of interactions between fish and vortices are lacking. We used quant...

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