A Dolphin’s Tale: How Researchers Gave One Bottlenose a Prosthetic Tail ...
2013年3月1日 · The tissue was necrotic: the dolphin's skin started peeling off, and the tail itself began to decay. One day Winter's caretakers found two of her vertebrae at the bottom of her pool. Winter...
Winter's Tale: This Prosthetic-Tailed Dolphin Was More Than A …
2022年11月11日 · At just a few months old, the bottlenose dolphin became tangled up in a crab trap in a lagoon in the Canaveral National Seashore in Florida. The rope cut off the circulation to her tail for some time before a fishing boat and a staff member from the SeaWorld Research Institute helped rescue her in 2005.
Thrust production and chordal flexion of the flukes of bottlenose ...
2024年3月1日 · Tail stands are a behavior where part of the body is held vertically above the water's surface, achieved through thrust produced by horizontal tail fluke oscillations. Strong, efficient propulsors are needed to generate the force required to support the dolphin's body weight, exhibiting chordwise and spanwise flexibility throughout the stroke ...
Allometry and Ontogeny in the Vertebral Column of Southern
2020年8月10日 · Our goal was to study the allometric patterns and ontogenetic trajectories in the vertebral column of these dolphins related to their ecology. We choose nine functionally homologous vertebrae in each column and digitized five different tridimensional configurations, containing 28 to 41 landmarks depending on the functional region under analysis.
Locomotor Design Of Dolphin Vertebral Columns: Bending Mechanics And ...
1997年1月1日 · In the vertebral column of the saddleback dolphin Delphinus delphis, we characterize the static and dynamic mechanical properties of the intervertebral joints, describe regional variation and dorsoventral asymmetries in mechanical performance, and investigate how the mechanical properties are correlated with vertebral morphologies. Using a ...
Dolphin Anatomy - Dolphins World
Learn about the general features, skeleton, head, trunk and tail of dolphins, the streamlined and hydrodynamic cetaceans. See how they breathe, echolocate, communicate and adapt to different environments.
Thrust production and chordal flexion of the flukes of bottlenose ...
2024年2月21日 · To determine how thrust production, fluke flexibility, and tail stroke kinematics vary with effort, six adult bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) were tested at three different levels based...
Dolphin Physiology - Dolphin Research Center
While skin and other parts of a dolphin’s body contribute to its graceful movement, the tail flukes provide the power. The tail is the strongest part of the dolphin’s body. All cetaceans move their tails up and down, rather than side to side like a fish.
The propeller of dolphins is a horizontal lunate tail fin consisting of two flukes which have been considered to play an important role in their high speed swimming. As wing-like structures, the tail flukes can be analyzed like engineered airfoils or hydrofoils [8, 9].
Dolphin Bones • Blane Perun's TheSea.Org
2024年3月6日 · Tail Flukes and Propulsion: The Powerhouse of the Dolphin. The caudal vertebrae, located in the tail region, taper towards the tail flukes, which serve as the main propulsive force in swimming. These tail flukes are horizontal, unlike the vertical tails of fish, allowing dolphins to swim with an up-and-down motion.
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