captive

Examples of captive in the following topics:

• Changing Human Behavior in Response to Biodiversity Loss

  • They also protect biodiversity in many ways, such as through captive breeding and private farming.
  • Captive breeding is meant to prevent species extinction and to stabilize the population of the species so that it will not disappear.
  • Additionally, if the captive-breeding population is too small, then inbreeding may occur due to a reduced gene pool, which may also reduce immunity.
  • Père David's deer is a species of deer that is currently extinct in the wild: all known specimens are found only in captivity.
  • This species was successfully saved through captive breeding programs after almost being hunted to extinction in China.

• The Middle Passage

  • African kings, warlords, and private kidnappers sold captives to Europeans who held several coastal forts.
  • The captives were usually force-marched to these ports along the western coast of Africa, where they were held for sale to the European slavers.
  • Once sold to the European traders, African captives were brought to the slave ships for the voyage to the Americas .
  • Captives were normally chained together in pairs to save space and, at best, were fed one meal a day with water.
  • Sometimes captives were allowed to move around during the day, but on most ships captives spent the entire journey crammed below decks.

• The Triangular Trade

  • African kings, warlords, and private kidnappers sold captives to Europeans who held several coastal forts.
  • The captives were usually force-marched to these ports along the western coast of Africa, where they were held for sale to the European slavers.
  • Once sold to the European traders, African captives were brought to the slave ships for the voyage to the Americas.
  • Captives were normally chained together in pairs to save space and, at best, were fed one meal a day with water.
  • Sometimes captives were allowed to move around during the day, but on most ships captives spent the entire journey crammed below decks.

• Slavery

  • Slavery is a system in which people are bought and sold as property, forced to work, or held in captivity against their will.
  • In more recent times slavery has been outlawed in most societies, but continues through the practices of debt bondage, indentured servitude, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage.

• Product Orientation

  • Adopting the product orientation can be advantageous to a company, due to the fact that the cost of determining consumer preferences and the development of new products and services are minimized or eliminated because consumers are in some way captive.

• Trade and Economy

  • The colonies were captive markets for British industry, and the goal was to enrich the mother country.

• Offshoring

  • More recently, offshoring has been associated primarily with the sourcing of technical and administrative services that support both domestic and global operations conducted outside a given home country by means of internal (captive) or external (outsourcing) delivery models.The subject of offshoring, also known as "outsourcing," has produced considerable controversy in the United States.

• German Migration

  • Many of these colonists later fled to Boston, Nova Scotia, and North Carolina after their houses were burned and their neighbors killed or carried into captivity by Native Americans.

• Make It Memorable

  • In addition, visualizations have the ability to be uniquely captivating.

• The Final Ledger of Deaths

  • Military figures include battle deaths (KIA) and personnel missing in action (MIA), as well as fatalities due to accidents, disease and deaths of prisoners of war in captivity.
  • Total military dead: from 21 to 25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war.