Biomechanics and Energetics in Aquatic and Semiaquatic Mammals: Platypus to Whale*

By Frank E. Fish. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 2000

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Capital or income breeding? A theoretical model of female reproductive strategies (2007, background): “Among air-breathing divers (many of which are constrained while tending by the need to raise offspring on land but forage at sea), emerging evidence suggests that efficiency of locomotion (Hind and Gurney 1997; Fish 2000 ), diving behavior (Lovvorn and Jones 1991; Beck et al. 2000; Sato et al. 2003”
Passive and Active Flow Control by Swimming Fishes and Mammals (2006, background): “These mechanisms are a result of a long evolutionary history during which selection has acted on propulsive systems and generated an array of novel anatomical and physiological responses to the problem of moving though water (Fish 2000, Lauder & Drucker 2004).”
Morphological and thermal properties of mammalian insulation: the evolutionary transition to blubber in pinnipeds (2012, background): “…insulation; the deep-rooted marine mammal lineages including the sirenians (manatees, dugongs, 50 Mya) and cetaceans (50 Mya) use blubber; and the intermediate group, the pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walrus, 29–23 Mya) use some combination of the two (Fish, 2000; Berta, Sumich & Kovacs, 2006).”
Land-to-sea transition in early whales: evolution of Eocene Archaeoceti (Cetacea) in relation to skeletal proportions and locomotion of living semiaquatic mammals (2003, background): “At the same time, the heuristic functional and physiological model of Fish (1996, 2000, 2001) illustrating the sequence of stages to be expected in any transition from a terrestrial to a high performance marine mammal is as valuable as ever.”
Phylogenetic, ecological, and ontogenetic factors influencing the biochemical structure of the blubber of odontocetes (2007, background): “Blubber performs at least Wve major functions in marine mammals: it insulates, adjusts buoyancy, deWnes body shape and streamlines, serves as an energy depot, and acts as a biological spring, reducing the energy necessary for locomotion ( Fish 2000 and references therein).”