• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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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.