Sentences with phrase «animals in captivity do»

Melia says that animals in captivity don't get the nutrients they would in the wild, and The Missing Link helps fill that gap.

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But when placed in a closed environment, Komodo dragons interact with their surroundings much in the same way humans do — at least on the microbial level — and researchers are using this knowledge to help them understand the health of animals in captivity.

«Captive studies may undercut these animals, may underestimate what they are doing,» because studies of animals in captivity can fail to fully replicate the social groups and relationships that occur in the wild, he told Live Science.

Many zoos work hard to protect and breed endangered animal species in captivity, and they spend a lot of money doing so.

How do the zoo animals learn to adapt the skills they have acquired in captivity to life in the wild?

We do not hear about the fun loving side of some of our wild animals, thus «wild animals», but isn't it nice when we get to see (while in captivity) them «appear» to have some fun?

And when the dogs don't behave, this is used as a justification why animals shouldn't be «held in captivity».

All animals have different mating habits, and these animals are often acutely aware that they are in captivity and as such do not feel safe engaging in reproduction.

Indeed, most of the work that animal trainers do with non-human non-pet animals in captivity throughout the world (zoos, research centers, marine parks, aquariums, etc) revolves around helping them learn to comply with husbandry, grooming and veterinary needs.

Captive wildlife sanctuaries have a critical responsibility to deliver a clear and consistent message that «wild animals don't belong in captivity.»

Our hearts sank at the sight of hundreds more neglected, tortured and forgotten animals, the sentient beings that their guardians had failed: bony, hollow - eyed horses staggering under their neglected frames; slowly - starving parrots, forced to live in deplorable unnatural confines without enrichment; monkeys born into captivity, confined to their impossibly small, dank prisons cells since the day they were born, only knowing fear and loneliness, never being able to do what comes naturally to a monkey; and chickens, rabbits, geese and so many other victims of man.

There is no question that holding animals in captivity causes serious stress, but it raises the question of what effect do other animals in isolation experience?

Animals that are born in the wild and know nothing but freedom do not adjust well to captivity.

Keeping wild animals in captivity purely for profit or the entertainment of humans does sadden us.

«We don't want animals in captivity or enclosed in any way,» says Costa Rica's Environmental Minister.

While monkeys in captivity have been trained in the fine art of bartering for the purposes of research, the Bali monkeys might be the only wild animals in the world to do the same.