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- Dictionarycaptive/ˈkaptɪv/
noun
- 1. a person who has been taken prisoner or an animal that has been confined: "the captives were freed after the kidnappers told them a ransom had been paid"
adjective
- 1. imprisoned or confined: "the farm was used to hold prisoners of war captive"
- 2. (of a facility or service) controlled by, and typically for the sole use of, an organization: "a captive power plant"
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2 days ago · The deliberate or accidental hybridizing of two or more species of closely related animals through captive breeding is a human activity which has been in existence for millennia and has grown for economic purposes. [285]
6 days ago · In this observation, an out-or-range occurrence is explicitly due to human transport of a larval food plant, nicely documented in the comments with the observation. I used the DQA “Captive/cultivated” to mark this occurrence as human-aided. Is this the appropriate notation? IMHO, a simple annotation as “human-aided” would leave an occurrence like this open to becoming RG which seems ...
2 days ago · Understanding how captive and wild environments influence the gut microbiome and related welfare indicators is essential for managing captive populations and for assessing the welfare of released animals. Additionally, “healthy” microbiomes are likely to be context specific.
3 days ago · Air Navigation Act. 1. This Order may be cited as the Air Navigation Order. 2.—. (1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires —. “working day” means any day except a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday. and the expressions “a flight”, “to fly” and “flight time” shall be construed accordingly. where the aircraft is ...
3 days ago · Crime, the intentional commission of an act usually deemed socially harmful or dangerous and specifically defined, prohibited, and punishable under criminal law. Most countries have enacted a criminal code in which all of the criminal law can be found, though English law—the source of many other.
1 day ago · Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth. It can be measured on various levels. There is for example genetic variability, species diversity, ecosystem diversity and phylogenetic diversity. [1] Diversity is not distributed evenly on Earth.
2 days ago · The study analysed whole genome sequences from captive and wild elephant blood samples collected across India to identify five genetically distinct populations — one along the Himalayan foothills from the northwest to northeast, one in central India, and three in the south.
