free-swimming


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Synonyms for free-swimming

adj(of animals) able to swim about

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In shipboard observations of small, free-swimming snails collected from the North Pacific and placed in closed jars of surface water, she found that as the animals' breathing elevated the concentration of carbon dioxide in the jar, carbonate ions in the water rapidly decreased, thereby inhibiting new growth of the creatures' shells.
Attendances at Colwyn Leisure Centre during the free-swimming sessions was 400pc up on normal.
"When you take calcium away, the biofilms fall apart, and the bacteria are essentially free-swimming," Watnick says.
Free-swimming sea nettles typically occur only in waters with certain combinations of temperature and salinity, says Christopher W.
Now, she and seven colleagues report that a 10-year project that fit video cameras onto free-swimming animals has revealed a crucial trick.
When the free-swimming larvae were old enough to settle down into shells, he split the family apart.