Swimming Performance of Hammerheads (VIDEO)

Florida Atlantic University

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Beginning in 2015, the researchers viewed hours of video of Scalloped hammerheads and Bonnetheads swimming. They looked at tail beat frequency and tail beat amplitude. They analyzed video sequentially to select clips in which sharks completed at least three full tail beat cycles of straight, steady swimming.

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