The phrase "a captive population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing groups of individuals or animals that are confined or restricted in their freedom, often in relation to research, conservation, or social issues.
Example: "The study focused on the behavior of a captive population of dolphins in the marine park."
Alternatives: "a confined group" or "a restricted population".
Michaela Hau, an evolutionary physiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, says that the new study is "immensely valuable" because it was carried out with a large number of baboons who lived in the wild rather than a captive population, which might be suffering from different kinds of stresses due to captivity, social isolation, or variable food quality.
A natural disaster or virus could wipe them all out, so "keeping a captive population," argues one of the keepers, "is vital".
They will not insist - as the commission had proposed - that drug companies must show compelling reasons for using a captive population for their testing.
Levels of genetic diversity of the natural populations were compared to those of a captive population used as an inbred "control".
The polymorphism of MHC class II B gene in 14 Chinese alligators was analyzed, which came from three different areas: a wild population from Xuancheng, Anhui, a captive population from Changxing, Zhejiang, and a captive population from Anhui Research Center for Reproduction of Chinese Alligators.
The Times, in contending that the nightmarish scenes of refugees in flight from Syria originate in the assault by Bashar al-Assad's "criminal regime on a captive population", did not specifically call for strikes.
Using behavioral observations of a large captive population and a questionnaire survey circulated to facilities worldwide, several hypotheses for F1 female reproductive failure were evaluated.
This is, to our knowledge, one of the first studies investigating genetic changes in reproductive, behavioural and morphological traits in a large captive population of vertebrates, under a strict genetic management that follows well-established guidelines (Frankham et al. 2000).
A small captive population remained at the Cincinnati Zoo, including a pair patriotically named George and Martha, but there would be no new feathered nation.
But beyond those legal considerations, said William Hurley, a senior vice president of the Georgia Aquarium, marine institutions need a strong captive population for research that could help safeguard the beluga as its Arctic habitat is transformed by a changing climate.
We have also demonstrated that these EST-SSRs can be used to construct a linkage map of the zebra finch, by genotyping three generations of a pedigreed captive population.
