His team studied marsh shrews in captivity.
As The Lede noted late Tuesday, another Syrian opposition YouTube channel uploaded a long video interview with Mr. Engel, in which he described the team's captivity in fluent Arabic to Khaled Abu Salah, a well-known media activist.
He had a long résumé training military and civilian experts – including teams of Navy Seals – in captivity, escape and interrogation techniques.
There are now 130 birds in captivity, and the team at San Diego Zoo Global are preparing for them to be released into the wild later this year.
But as The Huffington Post reported Wednesday afternoon, new questions about the kidnappers' affiliation recently prompted Engel and a team of journalists to revisit the harrowing five days in captivity.
Lemurs in captivity often don't hibernate, so Krystal and his team visited the primates in their natural habitat Madagascar.
NBC News' chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and two members of his production team, producer Ghazi Balkiz and cameraman John Kooistra, have been released after five days in captivity in Syria.
Over the last 30 years or so, James' son-in-law William, along with a team of Delos engineers, have been monitoring Android James while he's in captivity.
Our team had seconds to make a decision and we believe we made the right decision". In captivity, they were kept in isolation and deprived of sleep.
The team observed sawfish, predators native to the Indian and Pacific oceans, stalking mullet and other fish in captivity.
"About 80percentt of males in captivity fail to respond appropriately to females," said Dr. Don Lindburg, leader of the panda research team.
