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  1. www.nature.com › articles › s41467/018/05515-8Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and ...

    Aug 7, 2018 · Live-capture of wild Asian elephants to replenish captive populations has been practiced for more ... Although wild-captured female Asian elephants entered zoos at a median estimated age of just 3 ...

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  2. conservationmag.org › en › wildlifeElephants in Zoos: Shameful Cruelty that Must End

    Sep 2, 2024 · The average Asian elephant’s home range size in the wild is 8401.58-246,364 acres, with a herd size of seven to 10 individuals, and a lifespan of over 70 years. In captivity, elephants are confined to an average enclosure size of 1.98 acres, have a herd size of three individuals, and live to a median age of 20 years old.

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  4. www.nationalgeographic.com › animals › articleWild Elephants Live Longer Than Their Zoo Counterparts

    Dec 11, 2008 · By Maryann Mott. December 11, 2008. • 4 min read. Wild elephants in protected areas of Africa and Asia live more than twice as long as those in European zoos, a new study has found. Animal ...

  5. academic.oup.com › bioscience › articleDo Elephants Belong in Zoos? | BioScience | Oxford Academic

    Sep 1, 2006 · The number of wild African elephants has dropped from an estimated 1.3 million in 1971 to between 300,000 and 500,000 today, and only 34,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants remain in the wild. Animal welfare advocates argue that current and planned elephant quarters are too small. Zoos cannot house a sufficient number of elephants, they say, to ...

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  6. www.nationalgeographic.com › science › articleZoo elephants die much earlier than wild ones

    Dec 12, 2008 · On average, African elephants in Amboseli live for about 56 years, while those born in zoos lasted a mere 17 years. Even wild elephants that were killed by humans managed a good 36 years of life.

  7. www.sciencedaily.com › releases › 2018Capturing elephants from the wild shortens their lives

    Aug 7, 2018 · Even today, over 60 percent of elephants in zoos are captured from the wild and about a third of all remaining Asian elephants now live in captivity," says Lahdenpera.

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  9. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Elephants in Captivity - SpringerLink

    Jun 27, 2018 · Abstract. Elephants are among the world’s most intelligent land mammals, with a social structure so complex it rivals that of human societies. When brought into captivity, elephants are subjected to conditions that are the opposite of the dynamic ecological and social environments to which they are evolutionarily adapted, causing varying ...