Sentence examples for individuals in captivity from inspiring English sources

There are now thousands in the wild, all descended from the 54 individuals in captivity when the last wild one was killed in Poland's Bialowieza forest.

The species is critically endangered, with only one known population in the wild, and no individuals in captivity.

Although there are enough individuals in captivity to sustain the species, it is still critically endangered in the wild.

In 2012, the total estimated population was 58 80 individuals in the wild and over 300 individuals in captivity.

Although sample sizes are small for each species, the difficulty in acquiring specimens or keeping individuals in captivity make even these small sample sizes extremely valuable and worthy of study.

Supportive breeding programs involve breeding and/or rearing individuals in captivity until they reach a less vulnerable life stage and size, at which time individuals are released to increase the census size of vulnerable populations.

Adults are easily kept in captivity for weeks, and most individuals readily exhibit phonoresponses even in a highly artificial environment.

The 'alalā is actually extinct in the wild, but 109 individuals survive in captivity today.

The existence of animal personality is well-established across a wide range of species, with the majority of evidence for this being obtained from individuals held in captivity.

Consequently, we might expect that individuals favoured in captivity could be favoured in the same way in the wild.

For example, only 16 Mamu-DQB1 alleles were identified from 107 Indian origin individuals born in captivity [ 38], whereas 23 Mamu-DQB1 alleles were identified from 119 Chinese rhesus macaques in this study.