Sentence examples for captivity because of from inspiring English sources

They did not elaborate on some details of captivity because of potential consequences for hostages still being held.

He said the pirates finally settled for a relatively small ransom because local elders and businessmen were putting increasing pressure on the pirates, who were getting worried that the Chandlers might die in captivity because of their age and the harsh conditions.

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.

Stress will affect any species brought into captivity, because of human handling and restriction of behavioural possibilities [1].

It has been suggested that sexual selection could improve purging of deleterious mutations and increase fitness in captivity because of mating with compatible individuals or individuals with 'good genes' (Whitlock and Agrawal 2009).

About 90% of wild-caught reptiles die in the first year of captivity because of physical trauma prior to purchasing or because their owners cannot meet their complex dietary and habitat needs.

He added that Bergdahl rigorously catalogued his memories of captivity because "he knew he would be an important source of information for the intelligence community and for special operations forces".

I think we should consider stronger measures to control if not to ban the breeding of lions in captivity, because we simply don't need it in terms of our conservation effort".

His body language revealed a torment that broke through his fixed grin, the trait that has doomed belugas to captivity because gawkers, especially kids, just think of them as happy-go-lucky cartoon characters.

If it is rare in nature, this Gulliver of the garden is even rarer in captivity, because few people or institutions can afford to grow it.

For example, the European starling, which is among the most commonly used passerine species in laboratory research [1], cannot be bred in captivity because the chicks usually die soon after hatching due to a lack of appropriate food.