The evolution of cost efficient swimming in marine mammals: limits to energetic optimization

作者: Terrie M. Williams

DOI: 10.1098/RSTB.1999.0371

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摘要: Mammals reentered the oceans less than 60 million years ago. The transition from a terrestrial to an aquatic lifestyle required extreme morphological and behavioural modifications concomitant with ...

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