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found. The results from the field, however, indicate that this relationship itself does not<br />
explain satisfactorily the variation in FSN.<br />
[1] Pop, M., 1991: Mechanisms <strong>of</strong> the filtering area adaptation in Daphnia. Hydrobiologia 225:<br />
169–176.<br />
[2] Repka, S., Veen, A., Vijverberg, J., 1999: Morphological adaptations in filtering screens <strong>of</strong><br />
Daphnia galeata to food quantity and food quality. J. Plankton Res. 21: 971–989.<br />
5.2 Sinusoidal swimming: a searching checkmate <strong>of</strong> fishes to the transparent<br />
zooplankton<br />
M. Čech (carcharhinusleucas@yahoo.com), O. Jarolím, J. Kubečka, M. Vašek, J. Peterka<br />
and J. Matěna finished their extensive, 13 years research on sinusoidal swimming in fishes.<br />
The sinusoidal swimming (Fig. 7), previously interpreted as fish foraging behaviour [1], was<br />
Fig. 7: A scheme <strong>of</strong> sinusoidal swimming (one sinusoidal cycle) <strong>of</strong> reservoir open water fish, in this<br />
case adult common bream Abramis brama, showing tilting <strong>of</strong> fish body during the ascending<br />
and descending phase <strong>of</strong> sinusoidal cycle to reach an optimal attack angle when even<br />
transparent prey (zooplankton) is clearly visible to the predator (fish). (a) Zooplankton is<br />
visible against darker depths (brighter due to light scattered in their tissue). (b) Zooplankton is<br />
practically invisible to fish horizontally scanning eyes. (c) Zooplankton is visible against the<br />
bright light <strong>of</strong> the sky (darker due to absorbance at opaque parts <strong>of</strong> the body).<br />
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