New York Times: Different Strokes With a Baby on Board


Picture Credit: Chris Gash 

When bottlenose dolphins swim — at a cruising speed around six miles an hour or a sprinting speed about twice that fast — they are constantly fighting against the water’s drag, which only gets worse as they swim harder.

Shawn R. Noren, a marine biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, set out to find how much extra drag would be experienced by a specific, aerodynamically disadvantaged subset of the dolphin population: adult females nearing the end of pregnancy.

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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 12/9/2011 11:00 AM
Categories: Sea Life
Tags: bottlenose dolphins dolphins sea life university of california pregnancy swimming
 

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