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A cage gilded enough that even free creatures sometimes forget the door swung open.
means The state of being held prisoner or confined, unable to leave.
from From Latin captivus, "taken, captured," itself from capere, "to seize" — the same grasping root that gives us capture, captive, and even captivate (to be seized by charm rather than chains). The abstract noun captivitas carried the sense of "a being-held" into Old French captivité and onward into English, where it has long described both the literal prison and the bird that won't fly out.
- longer lives
- Zoo animals often outlive wild kin by decades
- lost instinct
- Captive-bred predators may forget how to hunt
- panda problem
- Captive pandas frequently lose interest in mating
- Stockholm origin
- Named after a 1973 Swedish bank hostage standoff
- orca collapse
- Captive killer whales' dorsal fins droop unnaturally
tiger king zoo — joe exotic's private zoo in oklahoma housing 200+ tigers
seaworld san diego — marine park holding orcas and dolphins since 1964
guantanamo bay detention camp — us military prison in cuba holding detainees since 2002