Comment on tall, dark & handsome

• nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Single women live longest

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This happens quite often with animals in captivity. Nature is dangerous (and health care is important!)

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  • KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    15 seems to be the captivity average though, not natural average.

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • flicker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        White napped crane life expectancy in the wild is unknown.

        So it sounds like you didn’t know that, either.

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  • fristislurper@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The secret is murdering your spouses?

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)

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