... direction. * Author for correspondence ( pm29@st-andrews.ac.uk ) 10 1 2012 1 6 2012 © 2012. 2012 drag buoyancy cost-of-transport swimming gait Total cost-of-transport (COT) is the amount of energy expended by an organism moving a unit of mass a given distance, which...

... for more than 10 min without fluking, regulating its buoyancy by releasing air bubbles. * Author for correspondence at address 1 (e-mail: pm29@st-and.ac.uk ) 22 3 2004 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2004 2004 drag buoyancy sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus swimming gait...

... to unsteady swimming coincides with the switch from sustained to prolonged swimming, gait transition speed has been proposed as an alternative method for estimating maximum sustained speed( Drucker, 1996 ), although this possibility has largely been ignored( Plaut, 2001 ). Fish moving at sustained...