It contains two species.

Narwhals are difficult to keep in captivity.

Lions reproduce very well in captivity.

They breed readily in captivity.

Scattered in small fragmented herds, population numbers of wild elephants are believed to be around 300 600. Like many other countries, wild elephants in Laos are threatened by problems caused by humans.

In captivity they may live as long as 7.6 years.

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They can live up to 13 years in captivity.

I think that dolphins should not be kept in captivity.

They can live over 30 years in both the wild and captivity.

There has been a strong backlash to marine parks keeping orcas in captivity.

Oncillas reach sexual maturity at around two to two and a half years of age.

Reproduction and parenting Females mature at 10 12 years (earlier in captivity), and males at 11 13 years.

They have been recorded as living 9 years, 3 months, and 18 days in captivity.

Our problem arose when we enabled the virus to move from its normal home into us, by farming civet cats and other animals.

The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.

Keeping great apes in captivity will be allowed for purposes of conservation only, and then under optimal conditions for the apes.

They can actually live longer than 60 in captivity, so we've only done 40 years in the wild so far.

It was amazing to see the Andean Condors, even if they were in an enclosure,...Biggest birds I've ever seen.

The outcome can be the same if we trap, enclose, and trade wild animals, such as civet cats, which seems to be the scenario that led to SARS in humans.

Now often called the northern white rhino, it has only five individuals left, all in captivity, and none able to breed.

The second type of aquaculture entails the farming of carnivorous fish such as salmon or seabass, and increasingly, the fattening of wild tuna in captivity.

Especially when chimpanzees, and other animals with large brains, are studied in captivity, modern technology is helping us to search for the upper levels of cognition in some of these non human animals.

Those left alive rested their heads on the cool stomachs of the newly dead for some relief from the heat. Sabadet Totodet took the judge to a clearing on the outskirts of town where he was forced to dig graves for more than 500 fellow prisoners who died in custody.

Sabadet Totodet took the judge to a clearing on the outskirts of town where he was forced to dig graves for more than 500 fellow prisoners who died in custody.

WildLink International, in collaboration with Oxford University, launched their ambitious International Barbary Lion Project with the aim of identifying and breeding Barbary lions in captivity for eventual reintroduction into a national park in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.

One story asserts that he had spent a part of his childhood in captivity in Bulgaria, where his family had, allegedly, been carried off as captives of the Khan Krum (r. 803 814) in 813.

But if we are pointing the finger at Sea World for what it does to its captive animals, we should also look more broadly at the way we confine performing animals.

And I've gone to more than 20 countries in the last few years with Mating in Captivity, and I asked people, when do you find yourself most drawn to your partner?

And don't even get me started on the Confined Animal Feeding Operations Conventional farmers use chemical fertilizers made from fossil fuels that they mix with the dirt to make plants grow.

I think the chimpanzee in captivity who is the most skilled in intellectual performance is one called Ai in Japan her name means love and she has a wonderfully sensitive partner working with her.

We will never know exactly what was going on in Tilly s mind, but we do know that he has been in captivity since he was about two years old he was captured off the coast of Iceland in 1983.