Sentence examples for captive rearing from inspiring English sources
This is thought to be the first case of tuatara successfully breeding on the New Zealand mainland in over 200 years, outside of captive rearing facilities.
The largest individuals on record are from a captive rearing experiment conducted from 1995 to 2000, in which a male reached 68 cm across and 12 kg, and a female 94 cm across and 49 kg.
This information is therefore highly relevant when weighing the relative risks of different captive rearing strategies.
All conditions of the Czech law were met to diminish animal suffering under captive rearing.
Captive rearing often alters the phenotypes of organisms that are destined for release into the wild.
This difference may result from the particular conditions of captive rearing.
Second, relative to pure wild fish with no history of captive-rearing, and born and returning from sea in the same years (a replication of Araki et al. 2007b), captive-reared wild × wild fish and hatchery × wild fish had only 60%and31%1% of the fitness of pure wild fish (Araki et al. 2007c).
Thus, an unresolved enigma in evaluating the likelihood that captive breeding programs can translate into self-sustaining salmonid populations, is whether, and how, increases to population abundance (N) provided by captive-rearing could offset reduced fitness in the wild of captive-reared fish and their progeny.
Little research has also addressed under what conditions an increase in population abundance due to captive-rearing might offset fitness reductions induced in captivity.
Allowing captive-reared adults, or adults that have had some degree of captive-rearing, to also breed in the wild and thus have free mate choice, may generate offspring that have benefitted from sexual selection and whose parents have had exposure to natural breeding conditions and breeding grounds (Berejikian et al. 2004; O'Reilly and Doyle 2007).
This change is partially predicated on the assumption that captive-rearing produces animals with reduced fearfulness.
