Turning turtle: scaling relationships and self-righting ability in Chelydra serpentina

Ruhr, Ilan M.; Rose, Kayleigh; Sellers, William I.; Crossley, Dane A.; Codd, Jonathan R.

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Turning turtle: scaling relationships and self-righting ability in Chelydra serpentina

Ilan M. Ruhr, Kayleigh Rose

, William I. Sellers, Dane A. Crossley, Jonathan R. Codd

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume: 288, Issue: 1946, Start page: 20210213

Swansea University Author: Kayleigh Rose

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Testudines are susceptible to inversion and self-righting using their necks, limbs or both, to generate enough mechanical force to flip over. We investigated how shell morphology, neck length and self-righting biomechanics scale with body mass during ontogeny in Chelydra serpentina, which uses neck-...

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Turning turtle: scaling relationships and self-righting ability in Chelydra serpentina

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