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minus-squareusualsuspect191linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·1 day agoThis happens quite often with animals in captivity. Nature is dangerous (and health care is important!)
minus-squarefristislurper@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·16 hours agoUnfortunately there are many counterexamples, large animals that live long in the wild tend to have shorter lives in zoos, like elephants, hippos, and monkeys.
minus-squareKazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·22 hours ago15 seems to be the captivity average though, not natural average.
minus-squareusualsuspect191linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·22 hours agoFair point, I was just speaking generally, and that she actually lived way longer than most of her species since most aren’t in captivity
minus-squareflicker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 hours agoWhite napped crane life expectancy in the wild is unknown. So it sounds like you didn’t know that, either.
This happens quite often with animals in captivity. Nature is dangerous (and health care is important!)
Unfortunately there are many counterexamples, large animals that live long in the wild tend to have shorter lives in zoos, like elephants, hippos, and monkeys.
15 seems to be the captivity average though, not natural average.
Fair point, I was just speaking generally, and that she actually lived way longer than most of her species since most aren’t in captivity
White napped crane life expectancy in the wild is unknown.
So it sounds like you didn’t know that, either.