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usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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This happens quite often with animals in captivity. Nature is dangerous (and health care is important!)

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fristislurper@feddit.nl
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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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KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world
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15 seems to be the captivity average though, not natural average.

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usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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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
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White napped crane life expectancy in the wild is unknown.

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

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