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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

The secret is murdering your spouses?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Single women live longest