Sentence examples for zoo captive from inspiring English sources

At the arraignment, however diminished physically, however grizzled the beard, scrawny the neck, ponderous the bags beneath his eyes, Mr. Hussein was like a lame old tiger in a zoo, captive -- but still capable of destruction.

Perhaps the greatest challenge faced by zoos and captive breeding programs is the mismatch between the environment in which the focal species has evolved and is adapted for, and the environment provided by the zoo.

Ventana biologists brave the region's trackless terrain to exchange a wild-laid egg with one from the zoo-based captive-breeding program.

Based on their finding, the researchers suggest that zoos or captive-breeding colonies can limit the spread of AA amyloidosis by removing feces as soon as possible or by keeping the animals' food separated from areas that have come into contact with feces.

The inadvertent domestication of long-term captive zoo populations has been an area of concern for some time among zoo biologists because of their use for conservation, particularly the reintroduction of endangered species into the wild (Pelletier et al. 2009).

Colin Tudge, author of Last Animals in the Zoo, said that captive breeding has had two notable successes in recent years.

Charles Darwin's observations of Jenny, the zoo's first captive orangutan, led him to write in The Descent of Man: "Let man visit Ouranoutang in domestication, hear expressive whine, see its intelligence, as if it understands every word said, see its affection to those it knew, see its passion and rage, sulkiness and very actions of despair; and then let him boast of his proud pre-eminence".

"The best thing is to ship them to a zoo with a captive breeding program," says Mendelson.

The total US captive zoo population totals 52 individuals, with an unknown number in private collections.

She was one of 338 captive zoo gorillas within North America when she died in her sleep at the age of 40.

In its first years, the zoo hosted a captive breeding program ("Operation Oryx") with the specific goal of reintroducing the almost extinct Arabian oryx to the wild.