Sentence examples for rapid swimming from inspiring English sources

The body is elongated, and its long, muscular tail is well suited to rapid swimming.

Feeding behaviour is stimulated by numbers and rapid swimming when three or more sharks appear in the presence of food.

The largest inhabitants of Triassic seas were the early ichthyosaurs, superficially like dolphins in profile and streamlined for rapid swimming.

But most of us learn to swim before we're old enough to appreciate just how daunting and counterintuitive a proposition rapid swimming actually is.

Feeding behaviour is stimulated by increasing numbers and rapid swimming, when three or more sharks appear in the presence of food.

Slow swimming is accomplished by undulating movements of dorsal and anal fins, whereas rapid swimming occurs by undulating the body and caudal fin.

A stage II seizure to PTZ in zebrafish consists of an easily identifiable, rapid, whirlpool swimming motion, which is clearly distinguishable from the first stage of generalized motion (Baraban et al. 2005).

One of his tougher stunts involved being knocked out of a boat in river rapids and swimming to shore in frigid water.

The limbs of tetrapods and their limb girdles have become much-modified in association with particular habits, such as rapid running, jumping, swimming, and burrowing.

The mating system is typical for sexual conflict scenarios that involve substantial direct costs [1]; with no courtship, males simply attack bypassing females, females resist behaviourally by attempting to dislodge the male in rapid and erratic swimming moves [27, Video S1], and mating interactions are characterized by a very long postcopulatory guarding phase [27].

On the other hand, cases of parallel evolution of oxyconic shells (i.e. slender, compressed conchs with acute venter) in various lineages of ammonoids have been repeatedly documented and interpreted as adaptations to rapid and/or improved swimming (e.g., [ 58, 60- 63] and see discussion) and thus as a result of natural selection.