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Record #13010:

Hvorledes hvalerne baerer sig ad med at svømme / C.G. Joh. Petersen.

Title: Hvorledes hvalerne baerer sig ad med at svømme / C.G. Joh. Petersen.
Translated title: How whales conduct themselves while swimming.
Author(s): Petersen, C. G. Joh.
Date: 1925.
Publisher: Copenhagen: Det. Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Language: Danish.
Abstract: Author has dissected porpoise and deduced its driving power from bodily movements - gentle, even screwing movements when loitering, strong movements of tail up and down for speed, with tail fin moving parallel to itself. He supposes that this motion is duplicated in whales and dolphins.
Keywords: 591.173 -- Swimming.
599.5 -- Cetacea.
599.537 -- Delphinidae.
H6 -- Zoology: mammals.
Location(s): SCO: SPRI-PAM: 599.5 : 591
SPRI record no.: 13010

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