1. A three‐dimensional, dynamic blue whale model for research and scientific communication.
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Segre, Paolo S., Martin, Johnson, Irschick, Duncan J., and Goldbogen, Jeremy A.
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SCIENTIFIC communication ,BLUE whale ,WHALES ,SCIENTIFIC models ,SCIENCE journalism ,NATURAL history ,BALEEN whales - Abstract
With the proliferation of scanning hardware and photogrammetry software, three-dimensional models of animals have become an increasingly important tool in the study of biology (Adamczak et al., [1]; Irschick et al., [16], [17]). We also calculated the mass of our model whale based on a density of 1,000 kg/m SP 3 sp (blue whales can be positively or negatively buoyant depending on the season [Moore et al., [25]] and therefore we assumed a density close to that of seawater), and compared it to the measured masses of 24-25 m long blue whales (Lockyer, [23]). This analysis highlights the importance of the posable armature: due to the dynamic nature of blue whale movement and the dearth of available photographs, finding anatomically neutral images of blue whales is very difficult. We also used images from cameras mounted on the backs of feeding blue whales (Goldbogen et al., [10]) and photos of whales from our photo-id catalog. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023
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