Resources

Speed References:
  • How Animals Work: by Knut Schmidt & Nielsen, (Page 59) (ISBN: 0 521 09692 8)
        Gleaned information: FD is proportional to the square of velocity.
  • New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13553-dolphins-swim-so-fast-it-hurts/
        Summary: Cavitation is observed when dolphins/fish swim fast enough (This reference references the next two references)
  • Journal of the Royal Society: by G. Iosilevskii & D. Weihs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607394/#bib16​
        Summary: Cavitation is observed when dolphins/fish swim fast enough
  • Kishinouye: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?journal=J.+Coll.+Agric.+Imperial+Univ.+Tokyo&title=Contributions+to+the+comparative+studies+of+the+so-called+scombroid+fishes&author=K+Kishinouye&volume=8&publication_year=1923&pages=293-475&
        Summary: Cavitation is observed when dolphins/fish swim fast enough, and damage was found on tuna tails
  • JEB #4: Journal of Experimental Biology: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/207/23/4015.eLetters#ref-27
        Summary: Caudal analysis of tuna
  • Nature #5: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02435
        Summary: Tuna and mako shark caudal analysis

Slow and Steady References:
  • JEB #1: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/221/5/jeb169854
        Summary: Slow swimming can be exhausting for fish. With enough speed, attitude controls is easier.
  • JEMBE #2: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098112001657
        Summary: Greenland shark swimming data
  • ​GEERG #3: https://geerg.ca/greenland-shark/
        Summary: Describes Greenland sharks

Ambush Predator References:
  • FishBase: https://www.fishbase.se/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=756&AT=Ogilbys+wobbegong
        Summary: Morphological description of the Tasselled Wobbegong.

​Thresher Shark References:
  • ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn7NTAHDZuM
  • https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/alopias-vulpinus/

Other References and Further Reading:
  • G. Liu & H. Dong: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d74c/628bd122e916d1e58fa4e5395040bbf9f668.pdf
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/10/3/036002/meta
  • Introductions to the Biology of Marine Life, by J. Morrissey & J. Sumich: https://books.google.com/books?id=TW2SAkgJOdMC&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=truncate++caudal+fin&source=bl&ots=fc5ntwYEEo&sig=ACfU3U2fUa_xjurEXZUTn9WLlB3W3oR0gw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfsO_oqt3hAhXbJTQIHYUlAN04ChDoATAHegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=aspect%20ratio&f=false
  • Journal of Experimental Biology: Comparative kinematics and hydrodynamics of odontocete cetaceans: morphological and ecological correlates with swimming performance, by F. Fish: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/201/20/2867