How long do elephants in captivity live?

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asked May 21, 2022 in Other- Pets by Yjioose (700 points)
How long do elephants in captivity live?

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answered May 21, 2022 by Skeethansen (3,210 points)
Elephants when in captivity live on average of 40 to 50 years while elephants in the wild live around 70 years.

Elephants in captivity typically have shorter lifespans than elephants in the wild.

The oldest living elephant was an 86 year old elephant who lived to be 86 years of age.

The 86 year old elephant was born in 1930 and died in 2019 at the age of 86 years old who's name was Chengalloor Dakshayan.

Chengalloor Dakshayani (c. 1930 - 5 February 2019) was a female Asian elephant owned by Travancore Devaswom Board and kept at the Chenkalloor Mahadeva Temple in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India, which at the time of her death on 5 February 2019 was believed to be the oldest elephant in captivity in Asia.

The average lifespan of elephants is around 70 years although some live longer than that just like humans and other animals can live longer or shorter lives than their lifespan.

Although elephants can live up to 70 years, there are other factors to be considered.

African elephants have a median of 56 years in the wild.

On the other hand, Asian elephants have a median of 41 years.

Researchers have found that elephants in the wild and zoos have different lifespans.

The oldest African elephant in North America died Friday at the Memphis Zoo. Tyranza, or Ty as she was called, was 56 years old.

She had also set the record for the longest-lived African elephant in North America, according to a news release from the zoo.

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