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  2. Condition index in fish - Wikipedia

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    The condition index is its actual weight divided by its expected weight, times 100%. A fish of normal weight has a condition index of 100 percent. So if a tarpon, for example, has a condition index of 104 percent, that would mean it is above the normal weight for an average tarpon of that length. If a tarpon has a condition index of 92 percent ...

  3. Study of animal locomotion - Wikipedia

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    is used in aquatic and aerial systems to measure the flow of fluid around and past a moving aquatic organism, allowing fluid dynamics calculations to determine pressure gradients, speeds, etc. Fluoroscopy allows real-time X-ray video, for precise kinematics of moving bones. Markers opaque to X-rays can allow simultaneous tracking of muscle length.

  4. Moving load - Wikipedia

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    massless load inertial load Vibrations of a string under a moving massless force (v=0.1c); c is the wave speed. Vibrations of a string under a moving massless force (v=0.5c); c is the wave speed. Vibrations of a string under a moving inertial force (v=0.1c); c is the wave speed.

  5. Parasite load - Wikipedia

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    In evolutionary biology, parasite load has important implications for sexual selection and the evolution of sex, as well as openness to experience. [1] High parasite load. Lappet moth caterpillar parasited by braconid wasps. Enumeration of Plasmodium parasites (blue) in human red blood cells (pink) to quantify relative parasite load.

  6. Standard weight in fish - Wikipedia

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    Standard weight equation for largemouth bass [1] and burbot [2] (fish). Standard weight in fish is the typical or expected weight at a given total length for a specific species of fish. Most standard weight equations are for freshwater fish species. Weight-length curves are developed by weighing and measuring samples of fish from the population.

  7. Kleiber's law - Wikipedia

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    Kleiber's plot comparing body size to metabolic rate for a variety of species. [1]Kleiber's law, named after Max Kleiber for his biology work in the early 1930s, states, after many observation that, for a vast number of animals, an animal's Basal Metabolic Rate scales to the 3 ⁄ 4 power of the animal's mass.

  8. Allometry - Wikipedia

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    The same is true for some fish, e.g. the muskellunge, the weight of which grows with about the power of 3.325 of its length. [15] A 30-inch (76 cm) muskellunge will weigh about 8 pounds (3.6 kg), while a 40-inch (100 cm) muskellunge will weigh about 18 pounds (8.2 kg), so 33% longer length will more than double the weight.

  9. Basal metabolic rate - Wikipedia

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    Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of energy expenditure per unit time by endothermic animals at rest. [1] It is reported in energy units per unit time ranging from watt (joule/second) to ml O 2 /min or joule per hour per kg body mass J/(h·kg).