Comment on tall, dark & handsome

• 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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