Movie 1
Balanus crenatus actively feeding inside a flume on crude oil droplets filmed at 1057 frames per second. Flow velocity inside the flume was 1.4 cm/s. At this scale, cirri spacing and flow velocity, the appendage behaves as a paddle.
The capture of crude oil droplets by filter feeders at high and low Reynolds numbers
Journal of Experimental Biology 2022. 225:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.243819