Table 2.

Values of maximum force and the time of maximum force calculated on a 5 mm spherical prey located 1 gape distance from the centre of the fish mouth at several angles using two different models. The WD model gives the same value for all cases. The three-dimensional model shows considerable differences in the maximum force calculated, up to 28.7% when compared with the WD model. This is attributed to the relaxing of the assumption of a point sink fish mouth assumed in the WD model.

angle (°)	maximum force in three-dimensional computation (mN)	time of maximum force in three-dimensional computation (ms)	maximum force in WD computation (mN)	time of maximum force in WD computation (ms)
0	0.7154	11.5	0.7008	10
15	0.7387	12.0	0.7008	10
30	0.8075	11.5	0.7008	10
45	0.8999	11.5	0.7008	10