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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 month ago

At 42 years old, Walnut was considered geriatric for her species. She far surpassed the median life expectancy for white-naped cranes in human care, which is 15 years.

[-] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 68 points 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!

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 39 points 1 month ago

Single women live longest

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago

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

[-] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 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

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

White napped crane life expectancy in the wild is unknown.

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

[-] fristislurper@feddit.nl 8 points 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.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 18 points 1 month ago

The secret is murdering your spouses?

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 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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