A hydrodynamically active flipper-stroke in humpback whales

• Main Authors: Segre, Paolo S., Seakamela, S. Mduduzi, Meyer, Michael A., Findlay, Ken P, Goldbogen, Jeremy A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Humpback whale; Fipper-stroke; Aquatic locomotion; Corral; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11189/7161; https://doi.org/10.1016/j

A central paradigm of aquatic locomotion is that cetaceans use fluke strokes to power their swimming while relying on lift and torque generated by the flippers to perform maneuvers such as rolls, pitch changes and turns [1]. Compared to other cetaceans, humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) have...