Sentence examples for spent in captivity from inspiring English sources

Some practices including minimizing the number of generations spent in captivity and mimicking natural conditions in captive environments have been undertaken to compensate the negative effects of captive breeding, but the results are uncertain (Wilke et al. 2014).

The last 18 years of his life were spent in captivity of one form or another.

Now her story has been made into a film, whose title reflects the time she spent in captivity: 3096 Days.

His late adolescence and early adulthood had been spent in captivity, yet he bounded toward us like a fawn.

About the only solace Mrs. Larribe, 64, can take is the sense she developed for the situation during the more than five months she spent in captivity following the abduction, in September 2010.

Rosalbina Bernal, 78, who heard messages from her children and grandchildren during the six weeks she spent in captivity earlier this year, said she looked forward to tuning her radio and listening to what her relatives had to say.

Modest evidence for reduced fearfulness needs to be set against the longer periods of time hand-reared birds must spend in captivity and the problems releasing them to the wild at the end of a study.

Three: the many years he spent in brutal captivity should be a mitigating factor.

Along with high-profile kidnappings of foreigners, the Taliban have targeted dozens of wealthy and prominent Pakistanis, some of whom have spent years in captivity.

In Mr. Harp's case, he spent months in captivity and was freed only after paying a hefty ransom, which local newspaper reports put at more than $50 million.

She never expected that it would be spent held in captivity by Boko Haram.