Table 1. Summary of analyzed data and results.
| Age (days) | 5 | 20 | 35 |
Size (
)
|
2.0 ( 0.056) |
3.2 ( 0.11) |
3.5 ( 0.18) |
Speed (
)
|
15.4 ( 3.5) |
18.2 ( 4.8) |
23.6 ( 4.4) |
| Reynolds number | 32 ( 7.1) |
58 ( 15.2) |
84 ( 15.8) |
| No. of observations (wakes, jets) | 12 (4, 8) | 12 (7, 5) | 12 (7, 5) |
| Cruising (wakes, jets) | (0, 4) | (3, 1) | (2, 2) |
| Hopping and sinking (wakes, jets) | (1, 3) | (1, 3) | (1, 3) |
| Looping (wakes, jets) | (3, 1) | (3, 1) | (4, 0) |
Mean trail volume (
)
|
5.3 ( 4.4) |
10 ( 16.6) |
60 ( 31) |
Mean trail length (
)
|
8.6 ( 6.7) |
14.1 ( 16.2) |
56.3 ( 25.6) |
Mean trail diameter (
)
|
10.0 ( 4.4) |
9.5 ( 1.3) |
12.9 ( 7.6) |
Mean dissipation rate (
)
|
3.4 ( 3.5) |
2.4 ( 1.9) |
1.8 ( 1.2) |
Mean total dissipated power (
)
|
1.3 ( 1.0) |
1.3 ( 0.9) |
10 ( 6.5) |
Note that for the limited number of our observations, the chosen swimming patterns exhibited no systematic dependence with hydrodynamic quantities analyzed. Therefore, only the mean values of all quantified parameters irrespective of swimming pattern are presented with standard deviations within parentheses).