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Nekton was founded in 1996 by a Duke professor who wanted to understand how fish swim.
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Nekton reconfigured itself in 2001 as an unmanned underwater robot and technology company.
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Nekton has grown into an aquatic robotic power with customers that include defense agencies.
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Nekton builds unmanned, underwater vehicles and other devices for Office of Naval Research and other military clients.
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In the open ocean, pre-juveniles of this particular species were found to feed on zooplankton and smaller nekton before they are recruited into inshore seagrass meadows as obligate herbivores.
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- The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
- Pelagic organisms that are free-swimming and so whose movements are independent of the tides, currents and waves. Such animals include fish, whales, squid, crabs and shrimps. The distribution of nekton is limited by temperature and nurtient supply and decreases with decreasing depth. ...
- Pelagic animals that are active swimmers and thus can overcome currents and determine their position in the ecosystem. Includes fish, marine mammals, and squid.*
- Organisms with swimming abilities that permit them to move actively through the water column and to move against currents (i.e. fish, crabs).
- The nekton includes all aquatic animals that actively swim in the water column, such as fish or squid. The nekton is one of three divisions of aquatic life; the others are the plankton ("drifters") and the benthos ("bottom dwellers").
- The collective term for passively floating life forms (plankton), including animal and plant life see also phytoplankton, zooplankton
- Pelagic animals capable of swimming against a current such as fish and marine mammals
- Term for actively swimming organisms, essentially independent of wave and current action. Compare with plankton.
- Free-swimming animals which are capable of moving where they want to. They are different to plankton.
