Abstract Current Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are greatly limited by being able to operate in
air only. Designing multimodal MAVs that can fly effectively, dive into the water and retake …

The largest animals are marine filter feeders, but the underlying mechanism of their large
size remains unexplained. We measured feeding performance and prey quality to …

An animal's behaviour is a response to its environment and physiological condition, and as
such, gives vital clues as to its well-being, which is highly relevant in conservation issues …

In recent years, much attention has been directed to building robots with hybrid and multi-
modal locomotion in air, water and on the ground. This rise in interest is due to the …

Animal movement, as measured by the overall dynamic body acceleration (ODBA), has
recently been shown to correlate well with energy expenditure. However, accelerometers …

Inviscid computational results are presented on a self-propelled swimmer modelled as a
virtual body combined with a two-dimensional hydrofoil pitching intermittently about its …

Breath‐hold divers are widely assumed to descend and ascend at the speed that minimizes
energy expenditure per distance travelled (the cost of transport (COT)) to maximize foraging …

Birds have colonized almost every terrestrial habitat on the planet-from the poles to the
tropics, and from deserts to high mountain tops. Ecological and Environmental Physiology of …

Koi carps frequently swim in burst-and-coast style, which consists of a burst phase and a
coast phase. We quantify the swimming kinematics and the flow patterns generated by the …

Buoyancy is one of the primary external forces acting on air-breathing divers and it can affect
their swimming energetics. Because the body composition of marine mammals (ie the …