Sentence examples for swimming animals from inspiring English sources
It sometimes also attacks humans and has been known to enter the urethras of bathers and swimming animals.
Indeed, early researchers had considered pterosaurs might be marsupials and amphibians, or perhaps swimming animals (Wellnhofer, 1991) before most settled on flying reptiles.
During that crossing, a rope was often carried along, fastened on each side of the river, and then used as a guide for the swimming animals.
Mucous glands secrete a protein called mucin, which with water forms the substance known as mucus; this slimy material serves to lubricate the body, thus lessening friction and aiding locomotion in swimming animals.
These findings highlight the importance of in situ observations for depicting the dispersal of weakly swimming animals.
Here we show theoretically that swimming animals and athletes gain an advantage in force and speed by spreading their fingers and toes optimally.
In seven videos made by remotely operated vehicles (one off the California coast, six near oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico), the researchers observed G. bonplandi wriggling the fleshy clubs on the ends of its tentacles in a way that resembles the undulations of a small, swimming animal (see video).
The ventral colour pattern faced down during the life of the animal, providing a camouflage of the swimming animal from potential bottom dwellers.
In colonized cephalopod specimens the bryozoans grew in a direction concordant with a forward swimming animal with apex up conch position.
We note here that Ellenberger [3] interpreted these wide-gauge tracks and drag marks as made by a swimming animal, an interpretation we disagree with based on the strong registration of the pes and metatarsus on the substrate (which indicates the animal was supporting its body weight), the regularity of the footfall pattern, and the inferred shallow water in the riverbed [11].
The main goal of this study is to develop and test hypotheses about the possible advantage to the swimming animal of this mismatch of activation and curvature.
