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Elephants in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. African elephants live an average of 35.9 years in the wild, but only 16.9 years in captivity.
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what a catch 22. We are killing them with encroachment of their habitat and then killing them sooner when they are in captivity.
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Doesn't bode well for all creatures great and small.
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