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Motile marine animals are
commonly called free-
swimming, and
motile non-parasitic
organisms are
called free-living.
Motility includes an organism's ability...
- Nude
swimming in US
indoor pools was
common for men and boys from the late 1880s
until the
early 1970s, but rare for
women and girls. For much of that...
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Human swimming typically consists of
repeating a
specific body
motion or
swimming stroke to
propel the body forward.
There are many
kinds of strokes,...
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sometimes five, soft rays in both the
dorsal and anal fins.
While they are
free-
swimming the
males have
large bowl-like eyes
contrasting with very
small olfactory...
- the adult. Many crustaceans, for example, have
free-
swimming larvae that use
their antennae for
swimming.
Antennae can also
locate other group members...
- A trochop**** (/ˈtroʊkəˌfɔːr, ˈtrɒ-, -koʊ-/) is a type of
free-
swimming planktonic marine larva with
several bands of cilia. By
moving their cilia rapidly...
- the substrate, but many live
attached only as
juveniles and
become free-
swimming as adults.
There are only
about 700
living species of crinoid, but the...
- fish that
retain their eggs
inside the body and give
birth to live,
free-
swimming young. They are
especially prized by
aquarium owners.
Among aquarium...
- on
studies of
their vertebral growth bands and the
growth rates of
free-
swimming sharks.
Whale sharks have very
large mouths and are
filter feeders,...
- Like most
other hydrozoans, T.
dohrnii begin their lives as tiny,
free-
swimming larvae known as planulae. As a
planula settles down, it
gives rise to...
