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Spatial and temporal patterns of water flow generated by suction-feeding bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus resolved by Particle Image Velocimetry
Day, Steven; Higham, Timothy; Cheer, Angela; Wainwright, Peter (The Company of Biologists, 2005-05-24)The suction-feeding fish generates a flow field external to its head in order to draw prey into the mouth. To date there are very few empirical measurements that characterize the fluid mechanics of suction feeding, p ...