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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.
In captivity, you can test it out, and you can know that this male has no trouble with either one.
The relations between the Iranian and the Jewish people throughout history has actually been quite positive, starting in 539 B.C., when King Cyrus the Great of Persia liberated the Jewish people from their Babylonian captivity.
A 2010 study showed that an octopus in captivity can recognize different humans.
I normally don't talk about this, but I'd like to share a bit with you some of those 317 days of captivity.
Four days before my eventful release, four hostages were beheaded a few miles away from where I was kept in captivity.
Edward recaptured the throne, the Lancaster Prince was killed in battle, and Henry himself died in captivity not long after.
It was about keeping cultural traditions alive and retaining a sense of inner freedom under captivity.
Unfortunately, humanity's treatment of elephants does not reflect this, as they continue to suffer from habitat destruction in Asia, ivory poaching in Africa, and mistreatment in captivity worldwide.
Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-five, he hops back and forth between a childhood trip to the Grand Canyon, his life as a middle-aged optometrist, his captivity in an intergalactic zoo, the humiliations he endured as a war prisoner, and more.
Net pens are also susceptible to escapes, unleashing huge numbers of fish which compete for resources and weaken the local gene pool with genes adapted for captivity.
This is a calf in captivity making an imitation of that trainer's whistle.
Here, for over 14 or 15 years, we've actually brought in both bluefin and yellowfin in captivity.
I enjoyed the construction of real time and flashback, seeing the old Diggers meeting again and recalling the terrors of their captivity in Changi POW Camp.
In captivity, the attitude of the two men toward their fate differs greatly.
But, it all turned out to be a trick to lure Guybrush into captivity.
I'll keep this short; thanks to Greg for helping me to put this succinctly: Captivity is about a guy who drugs a girl's drink, imprisons and tortures her, then poses as a captive to have sex with her.
She possesses what it takes to keep an audience in captivity.
We witness an unsuccessful attempt of Royal family to leave the country that brought both, the King and the Queen to the trial for treason; execution of her husband on the guillotine, separation from her son who was taken from her on the very day of Louis XVI's death, brought to court to testify against her, and died in captivity when he was 12 years old.
The sub-professional screenwriter .....of this movie....., Arriaga, then reaches for the blow torch again when the Barry Pepper character 'escapes' from captivity and enters a cave to hide only to be bitten by a rattlesnake!
Archie Mayo directs splendidly this story of a poet-drifter who (literally) walks into an eatery in the Arizona desert, where he runs into a desperate, Dillingeresque bad guy who holds him hostage, and in the course of his captivity falls in love with a very naive young woman.
Different ideas of murder, explosions, and captivity are all the order of the evening as the exposition is revealed.
Some 8,000 men were taken prisoner; many died in captivity.
Keeping great apes in captivity will be allowed for purposes of conservation only, and then under optimal conditions for the apes.
Most of them spent more than a year in captivity, and say they were forced to convert to Islam (if they weren’t Muslims), enslaved, systematically raped – sometimes by multiple jihadist militants – and bought and sold.
One Hundred Days of ServitudeLONDON – Demonstrations around the world were held this week to mark the 100th day of captivity for more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, for example, have shown that white rhinos rarely produce fertile offspring in captivity.
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