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On March 16, 1985, kidnapped American journalist Terry Anderson was released after 2,454 days in captivity in Beirut.
With wild tigers slowly disappearing, it is possible that some day the only tigers left will be those held in captivity in zoos around the world.
Some internal ciliary action, quite distinct from the hairs,[57] and which has never been precisely understood, caused gentle currents to flow towards the mouth in the middle of the lobes, and from the motion of the gizzard, imperfectly seen through the integument, and from the rapid filling of the stomach with particles of all hues, it was plain that captivity had not destroyed the Floscule's appetite, and that the drop of water in the live-box contained a good supply of food.
A white napkin was spread over the great chest that served for a table-a piece of civilisation such as the Dunbar captivity had not known-three beechen bowls and spoons, and a porringer containing a not unsavoury stew of a fowl in broth thickened with meal.
In captivity they seem as if they could, and would, eat anything, and I remember once seeing one trying to swallow a kid glove that had accidentally been dropped into its enclosure; possibly it thought it was some sort of dried frog!
At the date of writing, I believe{151} these three specimens at Giza are the only ones in any zoological gardens in the world, and the authorities are naturally very proud of them; but we do hope that some day we shall have some in our own Zoological Gardens in London, as they are birds that can stand captivity well.
In captivity it is rather morose, and fierce with any smaller fowl it can safely bully.
That he did see the bird, and with fidelity drew it, are facts, and one can only conclude that zoological collections are no new thing,{177} but that men, nearly six thousand years ago, must have kept rare birds in captivity for the pleasure of their beauty, and that artists went to their zoological gardens or collections, and drew pictures of the inhabitants of far-distant climes for the walls of their temples or tombs.
Considering its rather clumsy form it is fairly agile, and it has been noted that it can and does perch freely on boughs that bend and swing with its weight when at large, and that in captivity at the London Zoological Gardens one habitually used to perch on the thin corrugated wire fence that bisects their small enclosure, an almost acrobatic feat one would not have expected it capable of performing.
Experts believe the recently published document is just an outline to the 1,200-page memoir Eichmann wrote during his captivity in Israel (1960-62).
His most heroic act of insubordination was declining to be released from maggot-infested captivity ahead of other POWs who were captured before he was--an offer others accepted, in violation of military rules.
But I think the deeper admiration is for the guts McCain showed in his Vietnamese captivity and which he's shown consistently ever since.
He was a kind of spirit of resistance personified, a man who writes in his book (click here for a Ballot Box review) that he found freedom in captivity by tormenting his torturers, even at the cost of additional abuse.
, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans have been teaching, as the Associated Press reported, that "most slaves were happy in captivity and that many served as loyal Southern soldiers.
" It lives on, but its evolution seems to be taking different forms in captivity and in the wild.
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