Sentences with phrase «by swimming fish»

Now it appears that some aquatic hunters find food by following the wake left by swimming fish.

Not exact matches

A soft robot fish from China's Zhejiang University swims by ditching the usual rigid motors and propellers for an artificial muscle which flexes.

Twenty months after the spill these expensive recovery efforts continue, and 30 miles of the Kalamazoo River impacted by the spill remain closed to swimming, boating, fishing or even wading for the foreseeable future.

And by OBL's actions he was NOT Muslim!!!! Therefore he deserved a non-religious burial and to «swim with the fishes».

Stearns told me that while the dam and canal are now preserved as a national historic landmark, the Concord River is so polluted by manufacturing plants upstream at Sudbury that his children would never think of fishing, swimming or boating in it.

We would not only teach the fishermen trainees everything they needed to know about fishing, but would put them in real - life scenarios where they could practice the skills of fishing, without any danger of drowning, getting pierced by hooks, or getting arrested for swimming.

Winners will also be treated to the «Swim with the Fishes» experience at RumFish Grill — where they can snorkel in the 33,500 gallon aquarium built by Wayde King and Brett Raymer of Animal Planet's hit series, «Tanked.»

I had always fished for grouper by anchoring near a reef and sending down a baited hook, but when they're hungry enough, they will leave the rocks swim upward, and take a lure.

Social media has become like a great shoal of fish that suddenly turns one way and then another, driven by no rules other than keep equidistant from the fish around them and to keep swimming.

New programs for adults and children were offered including slimnastics, a fall fishing derby at the swimming pools, horseback riding lessons, and a winter ice carnival sponsored by the Rotary Club; and the gymnasium at Recreation Park began to be used as a roller skating rink.

As children swim in the underwater world as a fish avatar, they will be guided by a Deep Sea Explorer.

Watching sturgeons swim past, sharks cruise overhead and Amazon fishes dart by are some of the amazing sights at Shedd Aquarium.

But Labour MPs are, to change metaphors, like fish swimming about randomly until threatened, when they form shoals by instinct and move in groups.

To test how well the snakes could hunt by either sense alone, the team put them in a tank with a clear bottom, through which they displayed a movie of cartoon fish swimming.

About 13 percent of U.S. rivers, 18 percent of lakes and 32 percent of estuaries are classified as impaired by stormwater, which means they are rendered unsafe for swimming or fishing.

Swimming, paddling, boating and fishing account for more than 90 million cases of gastrointestinal, respiratory, ear, eye and skin - related illnesses per year in the U.S. with an estimated annual cost of $ 2.9 billion, according to a new report by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers.

The tanks were divided horizontally by a false bottom with holes big enough to let a population of water fleas swim freely — but too small to let fish leave the bottom part of the tanks.

Usually we would see a fish swim by or a squid momentarily grab the pipe, and then the cone would appear.

MIAMI (Reuters)- A study by University of Miami scientists says mahi - mahi, a popular fish among restaurants and anglers and exposed as infants to oil from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill, swim nearly half as fast as their unaffected counterparts.

This tubby fish, about a meter long, swims by flapping its pectoral fins.

The researchers named the method after a fish famous for swimming upstream because it employs an algorithm that can estimate the effect of biases and the expression level of genes as experimental data streams by.

Research conducted by Dr Bill Dew at the University of Lethbridge in Canada looked for the first time at the effect of the metal contaminants nickel and copper on specific fish olfactory sensory neurons, and how these affect the fish's ability to detect and swim away from an odour released by other fish of the same species (conspecifics) when a predator attack takes place.

When the team added the human version of CTGF to the injury site in fish, it boosted regeneration and the fish swam better by two weeks after the injury.

By swimming backwards such fish can identify the characteristic electric fields of their prey (Environmental Biology of Fishes, vol 36, p 157).

Some ingenious Shark Bay dolphin figured out that by prodding the sediments with a sponge attached to its beak, it could stir up these swim bladder-less fish without hurting itself.

Even a relatively sedentary fish like the lingcod can rack up a large number of detections by swimming back and forth or circling in a small vicinity within the receiver's range — or simply by holding still and hovering over a given spot within that range while the receiver tallies pings.

But bottom - dwelling fish, such as barred sandperch, which are favored by some Shark Bay dolphins, don't have swim bladders and so are harder to find with echolocation.

Acanthurus leuccosternon fish swim by corals — some of the healthy corals observed off Vamizi Island.

After witnessing this behavior, the female fish indicated their awakened interest by spending more time swimming near the images of the formerly unimpressive males, the researchers report online today in Biology Letters.

Using motion detection, the fish «triggered» the release of food by swimming over an active platform in the tank.

It's only a $ 100 toy — an aquarium of swimming robotic fish developed by the Eamex Corporation in Osaka, Japan.

In 2006, for example, a team led by paleontologist Zhe - Xi Luo, now of the University of Chicago, reported the discovery in China of a 164 - million - year - old docodont named Castorocauda lutrasimilis, which apparently not only swam but might also have eaten fish — adaptations not previously known among such early mammals.

If you feel claustrophobic, just look out of the 42 - inch windows to watch the fish swim by.

When the team simulated a bird attack by passing a shadow over the tank, the fish froze — but infected fish resumed swimming sooner than uninfected ones.

Sometimes they find ways around it or away from it: plenty of animals and fish have exhibited avoidance behaviors, fleeing the sound by swimming or diving.

Constellation Pisces (the Fish) is faint but can be found along the celestial equator swimming north of Aquarius (the Water Bearer) and Cetus (the Whale or Sea Monster) and surrounded by Pegasus, Andromeda, Triangulum, and Aries.

We expect the following predictions to be met: (i) a free - swimming robot whose design and movement are inspired by a zebrafish will not elicit fear response in zebrafish; (ii) the subjects will change their social interaction in the presence of the robotic fish; and (iii) the speed of the robotic fish will differentially modulate fish collective behavior.

Visual signaling from biologically - inspired robots has been used to investigate the behavior of birds [27]--[31], dogs [32], lizards [33], fish [22], [34]--[42], and rats [43]; salient chemical cues have been implemented on a miniature mobile robot to investigate social behavior of cockroaches [44]; audio feedback has been integrated in a model of a robotic squirrel to influence squirrels» behavior [45]; pulsing air currents created by robotic honeybees have been used to investigate honeybees» dance [46]; and hydrodynamic cues from a swimming robotic fish have been considered in [20] to modulate fish behavior in a water tunnel.

Notably, the portion of the focal region behind the robotic fish identifies the microhabitat in which the flow perturbations induced by the robot beating tail are expected to generate relevant effects on golden shiners» swimming, as demonstrated in [20].

By using a reliable, consistent, and remotely controlled robotic platform, we test the hypothesis that, at a constant swimming velocity, a bioinspired robotic fish is able to elicit attraction in a live fish as a consequence of the visual and flow cues it offers.

The time spent by fish in compartments B1, B2, B3, and B4 (Top view), while swimming in the middle compartment of the water column (Side view), was affected by the coloration of the robot when beating its tail at 3 Hz (F1, 46 = 5.08, p ≤ 0.05), data not shown.

Specifically, for each experimental trial, the time spent by fish swimming in the middle of the test tank and in compartments B1, B2, B3, and B4 was the dependent variable and the robotic fish color was the independent variable.

Pisces is symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions.

Feel the expanse of ocean above you, watch some fish swim by, chill out.

If a client is looking for a new job or business partnership, I might see them fishing, with lots of little fish swimming by their line.

Since Pisces is symbolized by two Fish swimming in opposite directions, attractions may run hot and cold.

Pisces is symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions, and this sums up your approach to love.

We've seen two bears, had our potted plants attacked by deranged birds, watched fish swimming in a nearby stream, and laughed at chipmunks and squirrels in high - speed chases up and down trees.

Between getting lost at a flea market, devouring the world's thickest pancakes for breakfast (at Benedict), swimming in a sea as warm as a bubble bath, having my grilled fish almost stolen by stray cats at a seaside restaurant, listening to a street performer sing Pink Floyd translated into Hebrew, getting dizzy from all the hustle & Read more

Fish swimming around in their closed off aquariums have never been particularly interesting to me, but these incredible photos by Visarute Angkatavanich really smashed that barrier into smithereens!