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Adam was released after hours of interrogation, but he said many others remain in captivity.

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Some suffered through years of cruel captivity in North Vietnamese prisoner camps, since Hanoi refused to release them until Nixon and Kissinger withdrew the last American troops.

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Comparing zoo and wild data showed that while the differences were smaller in captivity, they rarely disappeared altogether.

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Otter 841 was born in captivity to a mother who had been captured after spending too much time interacting with people and their watercraft.

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"It's impossible to forget even a single moment of my captivity," the 53-year-old Israeli former hostage told AFP in an interview on Monday.

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