7 sentences with “captive”

We get down on all fours to observe the captive animal, which begins to bellow.

Hal Markowitz, a biologist at the University of San Francisco, USA, has an unusual occupation: combating "boredom" in captive animals.

The local Yamasee and Creek tribes accumulated a trade deficit with the English, exchanging deerskins and captive slaves for European weapons.

A striking example is Belgium, where only women who were widowed, lost children or were held captive during the war were initially granted the vote.

Many of these sultans sought recognition from the captive caliphs as a form of spiritual and political currency, but the end result is that the caliphs themselves exercised no political authority of their own.

"Unable to guide their own lives - eating, hunting, mating freely - captive monkeys tend to develop abnormal behaviour, with attitudes that on the whole can be compared to those of humans in confinement: a feeling of futility, in which nothing they do really matters," says the scientist.

"So, what news do you have, paisano? -None," he replied. -But, man," I added, astonished, "don't you know that the Paraguayans have invaded the Province of Corrientes with forty thousand men; that they have seized some steamers from us, that they have robbed, set fire to and taken many families captive? In reply he exclaimed, with the customary tune: "It's a good thing they won't get here!