Mar 29
Sakura Garage Kit by Tail Slap, from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
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Sakura Garage Kit by Tail Slap, from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Pristimon used Tail Slap!
~ Digimon Beatbreak Ep. 27
Tail slap
Tail slap
A wild Slovakia appeared!
Go, Canada!
Canada used Tail Slap!
Hit 8 time(s)!
The wild Slovakia fainted!
Canada gained 104 experience points!
via I Love Vancouver Island:
What are the odds to capture this in one season?! Photo credit, Jos Krynen, Eagle Eye Adventures
Behaviour diagram of a thresher shark’s overhead tail-slap, with preparation (1–2), strike (3–14) and wind-down recovery (15–27) phases, as observed from events, which occurred in the sagittal plane. A motion animation (top) represents 1.08 s21 of an event which was recorded by handheld underwater video camera on 17 June, 2010. Center inserts profile the key characteristics of the behaviour, while inserts shown in the transvers plane (bottom), were interpreted from other video sequences.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067380.g005
**So proud of my diving mentor Medel Silvosa for creating this!
A sequence of still images taken from an overhead tail-slap hunting event that occurred in the sagittal plane (Movie S1).
A thresher shark lunged at the bait ball in the horizontal plane (1–3).
It then adducted its pectoral fins in a manoeuvre that changed its pitch, promoting its posterior region to lift rapidly and stall its approach (4–6).
After adducting its pectoral fins, the shark rotated them laterally in a surge to counter the momentum of its body from precipitating forward (7–10).
A rapid and powerful ventro-dorsal peduncular motion drove its tail from its base in a trebuchet catapult motion that terminated overhead in a slap (7–10).
The tail-slap occurred with such force that it caused dissolved gas to diffuse out of the water column forming small bubbles that entrained and grew in size (circled in 9–14).
The shark returned its pitch to the horizontal plane in a wind-down recovery (11–14), turned 180u, and proceeded to collect the five sardines it had stunned (15).
The center of mass about which the movements associated with the shark’s overhead tail-slap occurred, changes in camber and time stamps are shown in white.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067380.g004
