captivity

A new study suggests that saltwater crocodiles born or raised in captivity may not try to return to their breeding centers once they are released into the wild.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Blondie’s two cubs, believed to be 2 to 3 months old, will spend the rest of their childhood in captivity in the hopes that they can one day be released back into the wild.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

A rare eastern imperial eagle has been rescued from animal traffickers and released back into the wild in Serbia after months in captivity.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Many who survived the Oryoku Maru would later say their ordeal on board the ship—one of more than 100 Japanese prisoner transports that would become known as “hellships”—was the worst of their captivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Mama Panda, having grown up in captivity, is too used to humans to be released.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

What ensues is a dialogue wherein the djinn explains his various loves and captivities to Alithea, who listens enraptured with her wet hair wrapped in a towel.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022

Such illegal captivities were not practicable for long in London.

From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett

The captivities of Israel and Judah were other illustrations of the same thing.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren

Organisation and government protection saved the Ohio Associators from such experiments of colonisation as had frequently led to Indian captivities and abandoned settlements in Tennessee and Kentucky.

From The United States of America, Part 1 by Edwin Erle Sparks

They, however, were products of a later age, and had learned many things--good and bad--from surrounding nations or in their captivities, which Moses did not attempt to teach the simple souls that escaped from Egypt.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord