Captivity
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While we cannot know the future for the girls still in
captivity
, 15 of the 57 girls who escaped their kidnappers are now back at school, braving Boko Haram’s threats to return and abduct more students.
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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.
They can actually live longer than 60 in captivity, so we've only done 40 years in the wild so far.
When Mandela came out of prison after 27 years of captivity, if he had told his people, "It's time to take up the arms, it's time to fight," he would have been followed.
In his memoirs, "Long Road to Freedom," he wrote that he survived during those years of
captivity
because he always decided to look upon his oppressor as also being a human being, also being a human being.
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