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What does BL/s stand for?

body lengths per second


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Some fish can swim up to 10 body lengths per second.
The hummingbirds' speed reached 385 body lengths per second, easily beating the peregrine falcon's recorded dives at 200 body lengths per second.
Indeed, if you calculate speed using body lengths per second (the number of times an object can travel its own length in one second), the figures are even more astonishing.
Indeed, if you calculate speed using body lengths per second (the number of times an object can travel its own length in one second), the figures are even more astonishing.
For example: A biologist would describe a jellyfish's swimming speed as 5 body lengths per second.
Using a high speed video microscope mounted on an ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle), researchers have found that copepods can swim at speeds of 500 body lengths per second.
Indeed, if you calculate speed using body lengths per second (the number of times an object can travel its own length in one second), the figures are even more astonishing.
36 mph) or 50 body lengths per second, are regarded as the fastest insects on land.

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