Natatory Bladder of a Fish
Natatory Bladder of a Fish
The natatory bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that fish use to control their buoyancy. Due to Archimedes' principle, increasing the volume of the bladder moves the fish upward because its average density decreases. A submarine operates by an analogous mechanism.
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Enrique Zeleny
"Natatory Bladder of a Fish"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/NatatoryBladderOfAFish/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: April 16, 2012