Sentence examples for survived in captivity from inspiring English sources

The bird was 28 years old at the time and survived in captivity until age 34 years 10 months.

She had told me that it's still possible to see two of the rarest, the Delacour's and the Cat Ba langurs, in the wild, and the rescue center is the only place in the world where they both have survived in captivity.

Should the pandas make love, they could also make history: only one giant panda cub has been born and survived in captivity in the United States -- Hua Mei, a female born in 1999 at the San Diego Zoo -- and she was conceived through artificial insemination.

Beavers were hunted to near-extinction for their highly valuable fur and oil, but have survived in captivity.

European sailors wiped out the subspecies living on Floreana Island in the 19th century, and they eventually did the same on Pinta Island, though one Pinta tortoise survived in captivity until 2012.

Individuals have survived in captivity for over five years.

The kingfisher and the rail survive in captivity.

Today, five additional species are extinct in the wild – including the 'alalā – but survive in captivity.

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

Of the 15 chimpanzees kept at the sanctuary, she said Cheetah was the most famous and an outgoing ape with a gentle personality who had long outlived the 35 to 45 years that chimpanzees typically survive in captivity.

Mr. Shepard is also Major Shepard, a fighter pilot with the Air Force Reserve who was trained to survive in captivity before he flew 52 combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait in the first Persian Gulf war.