Fig. 5. Relative timing of kinematic events and peak fluid speeds for bluegill
(top) and bass (bottom). To account for variation in absolute speed of the
event, all times are shown normalized to TTPG. Because of the
definition of TTPG used (see Materials and methods), the kinematic
events of 20% PG and 95% PG are necessarily located at 0 and 1, respectively.
All other symbols and error bars show the mean ± s.e.m. for all
feedings analyzed. Note that peak fluid speed occurs at approximately the same
time as 95% mouth opening for bluegill, but slightly after 95% opening for
bass. Events that have some duration (duration of gape and prey entering) are
represented as filled bars with error bars to show the s.e.m. for the start
and finish of these events. The three values of the time of peak fluid speed
(FS) represent three locations in front of the mouth of the fish
relative to peak gape (PG). The data for bluegill are from Day et al.
(Day et al., 2005).