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Timing is everything: Coordination of strike kinematics affects the force exerted by suction feeding fish on attached prey
(Journal of Experimental BiologyCompany of Biologists, 2007-07-17)
During aquatic suction feeding, the predator opens its
mouth and rapidly expands its buccal cavity, generating a
flow field external to the mouth. The rapid expansion of the
buccal cavity produces high fluid velocities ...
Spatial and temporal patterns of water flow generated by suction-feeding bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus resolved by Particle Image Velocimetry
(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 ...
Sucking while swimming: Evaluating the effects of ram speed on suction generation in bluegill sunfish Lepomis macrochirus using digital particle image velocimetry
(The Company of Biologists, 2005-05-11)
It is well established that suction feeding fish use a
variable amount of swimming (ram) during prey capture.
However, the fluid mechanical effects of ram on suction
feeding are not well established. In this study ...