• DrownedRats@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    She lived almost 3 times the average life expectancy for her species!?! That’s genuinely insane! Imagine a human living to 180 years old!

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      1 month ago

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

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          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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            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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        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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      (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)