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What made the difference for Ms. Parnpichate was the growing popularity of captive-bred seahorses.
A Pet Hard to Cuddle Up To Linda Himelstein 2011
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These birds include captive-bred birds produced from wild-caught parents as well as wild-caught birds laundered through South African breeders and exported as "captive-bred."
Will Travers: Canary in a Coal Mine? A Day to Save the Birds.... Will Travers 2012
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She offered Indy captive-bred live quail and partridges; in the fall, Indy also hunted migrating birds.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Concerned that the captive-bred pandas might lack basic instincts, the keepers provided sex education in the form of wildlife videos showing the animals mating in the forests.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Four pregnant pandas were released earlier this year, and now conservationists are monitoring a four-month-old captive-bred cub 24 hours a day on CCTV.
Scientists Dressed As Pandas Release Baby Pandas Into Wild (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We are heading to a hunting club, which stocks its extensive fields with captive-bred pheasants and quail.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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That was possible—Xiongsen has 200 captive-bred African lions—but in Chinese medicine these beasts were traditionally considered a poor substitute for tiger.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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That was possible—Xiongsen has 200 captive-bred African lions—but in Chinese medicine these beasts were traditionally considered a poor substitute for tiger.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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To prepare these endangered captive-bred predators to hunt in the wild, people working in this program provide them with live black-tailed prairie dogs and golden hamsters.
Marc Bekoff: Using Hamsters to Save Ferrets: The Need for Compassionate Conservation 2010
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Concerned that the captive-bred pandas might lack basic instincts, the keepers provided sex education in the form of wildlife videos showing the animals mating in the forests.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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