Sentence examples for breed in captivity from inspiring English sources

The zoo's collection of birds is one of the largest in the world and includes the first Caribbean flamingo colony to breed in captivity and a breeding pair of endangered whooping cranes.

The ability of the species to breed in captivity, based on information gathered from zoo breeding records and captive breeding programmes, was also of interest because easy-to-breed species would be of lower priority when determining where to focus antitrading efforts.

Cheetahs are notoriously hard to breed in captivity, and when there aren't enough captive-bred cheetah cubs to feed the extraordinary demand, particularly in the Middle East, poachers will take these cubs from the wild.

The mountain chicken is difficult to keep and breed in captivity because of its voracious appetite and its unusual breeding behaviour in which the frog creates a foam nest in the ground for the tadpoles which the female then feeds regularly with unfertilised eggs.

But ideas aren't known to breed in captivity.

Like mantas, pangolins are slow breeders, and are very hard to breed in captivity.

While most freshwater aquarium fish are already bred in captivity, breeding saltwater species has been more difficult.

Such differences will grow as strains are bred in captivity.

The first one bred in captivity was born here in 1943.

Several birds never before bred in captivity have hatched & fed their young in public view.

Okapis have been exhibited in many zoological gardens and have been successfully bred in captivity.