This happens quite often with animals in captivity. Nature is dangerous (and health care is important!)
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DrownedRats@lemmy.world 2 months agoShe lived almost 3 times the average life expectancy for her species!?! That’s genuinely insane! Imagine a human living to 180 years old!
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 2 months ago
15 seems to be the captivity average though, not natural average.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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
flicker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
White napped crane life expectancy in the wild is unknown.
So it sounds like you didn’t know that, either.
fristislurper@feddit.nl 2 months ago
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.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The secret is murdering your spouses?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 months ago
(Avg life expectancy of humans without tech is prob 20, but humans could live to 100+ thousands of years ago, nothing changed, we just systemically eliminated the factors in our environments that cause non-old age death (with cancer, neurological, and cardiovascular problems remaining the last lines), eg food quality, vaccines & healthcare overall, killing & sterilising every other ecosystem around us, you know, the usual)
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Single women live longest