Captivity definition

Captivity means the condition in which an animal is contained in an enclosed cage, carrier, aquarium, or similar device, yard, or enclosure that prohibits the natural movement of the animal.
Captivity means a live raptor that is held in a controlled environment which is intensively manipulated by humans for the purpose of producing raptors of selected species, and which has boundaries designed to prevent raptors, eggs or gametes of the selected species from entering or leaving the controlled environment.
Captivity means that living wildlife is held in a controlled environment that is intensively manipulated by man for the purpose of producing wildlife of the selected species, and that has boundaries designed to prevent animal, eggs or gametes of the selected species from entering or leaving the controlled environment. General characteristics of captivity may include but are not limited to artificial housing, waste removal, health care, protection from predators, and artificially supplied food.

Examples of Captivity in a sentence

  • McSwain, ‘Review of Julian Davies, The Caroline Captivity of the Church: Charles I and the Remoulding of Anglicanism 1625-1641 (Oxford, 1992)’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 24 (1993), pp.1101-1112 Merrill, Perkins, Thomas F.

  • My Story of Captivity and My Fight against the Islamic State (Virago 2018).

  • Clark, eds., Puritans among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), 186 (fn.

  • A Brief Narrative of My Captivity and Treatment Amongst the Ladrones.

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More Definitions of Captivity

Captivity means a live raptor that is held in a controlled environment which is
Captivity means the state of being held under control or kept caged or penned.
Captivity means the restriction or confinement of a large carnivore, causing such large carnivore to become fully dependent on being fed;
Captivity means the keeping of a breeder deer in an enclosure suitable for and capable of retaining the breeder deer it is designed to retain at all times under reasonable and ordinary circumstances and to prevent entry by another deer. The term includes the temporary keeping of a breeder deer in a vehicle or trailer.
Captivity means when a marine organism at any life stage is eggs or live organisms are held in a controlled or selected aquatic environment that has boundaries designed to prevent such organism eggs or live organisms from entering or leaving the controlled environment.
Captivity means the keeping of game animals in an enclosure suitable for and capable of retaining the animal it is designed to retain at all times under reasonable and ordinary circumstances and to prevent entry by another animal.
Captivity means when eggs or live organisms are held in a controlled or selected aquatic environment that has boundaries designed to prevent such eggs or live organisms from entering or leaving the controlled environment.