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• Their close cousin, the Koi fish, has been known to live up to 200 years in captivity!
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 11 Feb. 2024
• African penguins can live to be 27 years old in the wild, and longer in captivity.
  — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2024
• Tigers can have a life span of about 20 years in captivity.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• Why are the names of the 101 hostages who remain in captivity not on the nightly news in countries around the world?
  — TIME, 25 Sep. 2024
• The study might also shed light on how to care for snakes in captivity.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2023
• Some of the victims spent up to a year in captivity, police said.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 17 July 2024
• As the days in captivity drag on, many have been killed, and their families live in agony.
  — NPR, 4 Sep. 2024
• As of this month, Israel believes more than 130 hostages are still in captivity in the Gaza Strip.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2024
• If Ghosts‘ new spirit has her way, Isaac will be in captivity for a very long time.
  — Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 18 Sep. 2024
• Nine members of the species raised in captivity since their youth—four males and five females—have been known to live past 20 years.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• Many of the 100 or so people who remain in captivity are feared dead.
  — Jason Green, The Mercury News, 7 Oct. 2024
• More than 130 remain in captivity, a fourth of them believed to be dead.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Feb. 2024
• This applies to both native and non-native species, whether caught in the wild or bred in captivity.
  — Lizzy Rosenberg, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• What is freedom to a woman who has been in captivity all her life?
  — Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
• Gibbons in captivity have hung pieces of rope or blanket on their cages to make swings.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• Israel aims to free the more than 100 hostages who remain in captivity.
  — Najib Jobain, Wafaa Shurafa, and Samy Magdy, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Dec. 2023
• The wolves, named Llave and Wonder by advocates, were removed from the wild in 2023 and paired in captivity over the winter.
  — Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 4 May 2024
• Their life span in captivity can be double that or more.
  — Ed Shanahan, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Not to help the snake cope better in captivity—to be a better pet for whoever owns it.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• Almost all of Smith’s adult life took place in captivity.
  — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
• Vaquitas cannot be captured, held or bred in captivity.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 15 June 2023
• Just a few inches long in captivity, the fish species can grow to be massive (up to 16 inches long) when feral, per the outlet.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• On the third day in captivity, a Tuesday, helicopters could be heard overhead and a loud knock came at the door, followed by the sound of a power tool drilling at the lock.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2022
• He was captured by the Japanese during the war and died in captivity.
  — Frazier Moore, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2023
• Gibbons said northern water snakes have been known to live up to nine years in captivity.
  — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
• Horses were bred in captivity on the western steppe at least five thousand years ago.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Hand doesn’t know much else about Emily’s time in captivity.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
• Researchers found one pregnant female Guilin grass lizard, which laid two eggs while in captivity, the study said.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
• Many held pictures of the hostages, some of them children and older people, who have spent nearly a month in captivity.
  — NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
• Omer's 23rd birthday is just days away, his second in captivity.
  — NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024