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"Their well formed bodies give evidence of Allah's lasting blessing."
Salim Bin-Abdullah Haj
Deutsche Version

The Drop-Shape

The aerodynamic drop-shape is in many respects ideal. It connects little stream-resistance with little forming of whirlwind.

You can read in Walther Opitz's book "Windhunde" about it: "What has it to do with Sighthounds? Also the fast animals try to adjust their body to the air-resistance to be most streamlined. The Sighthounds succeeded the best in it. So we observe that the depth of the toracic cage does not only enclose the large lungs and the strong heart but as an appropriated trunk-form also looks like a perfect drop-shape."

In the following a few comments of Walther Opitz are explained by photos of Sloughis:

Ussamal Nuri al Baida Ussamal Nuri al Baida

“( ...) how the body - here the shoulder, the brisket and the base of the chest -in the best dynamic drop-shape has formed. Likewise you can see the second drop-shape in the muscular stretched hindquarters at full speed.

"At fast motion there is no restraining of the vacuum and no suction by this body-form; the pierced through air-layer closes well again, too. This drop-shape remains as well in each phase of motion.

All quotations from: Walther Opitz "Windhunde", Verlag Eugen Ulmer Stuttgart, 1979

Pictures 2+3 show Ussamal Nuri al Baida, Photo: Gisela Schwarz

Picture I Ussamal and Tabrik Nuri al Baida, Photo: Dirk Gerschewski

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