Investigations are underway to determine if the cub was wild caught or captive-bred, where it came from and the suspect's intended final destination.Tigers are, of course, endangered, and buying and selling them is generally prohibited.
"There are cultures out there that prefer wild caught product to captive source product," Allan explained.
Specifically, we test the hypothesis that wild-caught captive European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) are more optimistic in their interpretation of ambiguous stimuli when they are housed in cages designed to promote greater welfare compared with when they are housed in standard laboratory cages.
Our study covers 24 populations and strains of the subgenus Mus including wild-caught, captive and inbred mice (detailed in Table 1).
The wild-caught captive non-human primate species that tested positive for EBOV specific IgG antibodies were Cercopithecus neglectus (De Brazza's Monkey), Gorrilla gorilla (Western Gorilla), Mandrillus leucophaeus (Drill), Mandrillus sphinx (Mandrill), Pan troglodytes (Chimpanzee), and Papio anubis (Olive Baboon).
One study between 1985 and 2000 showed the IgG ELISA based seroprevalence of EBOV in captive-born non-human primates was 0% (0/165) compared to 6.3% (39/618) in wild-caught captive non-human primates, with chimpanzees representing three quarters of the positives in Cameroon, Gabon, and the Republic of Congo (14).
They get captive customers.
He was caught after being held captive by smugglers for five days with more than 100 other people in a house in Texas near the Mexico border.
Whether smuggled-in wild caught animals or those captive-bred offspring of wild ancestors, to have them here is cruel to them and potentially quite dangerous for the rest of us.
The researchers studied the effects of Deepwater Horizon oil samples on in vitro preparations of living cardiac cells taken from the hearts of bluefin tuna and yellowfin tuna, many of them caught at sea and held captive at the Tuna Research Conservation Center in Pacific Grove, Calif., and at the nearby Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Accurate recording of the source of the animals (e.g., wild-caught, captive-bred) is also needed.
