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Proponents of elephants in zoos argue that wild elephants walk long distances because of the necessity of finding water, food, or mates, but that captive elephants do not require the same amount of walking if resources are more readily available. [7] In the wild, elephant herds (particularly those of African elephants) can be quite large. [4]
Fewer than a third of the elephants in captivity are still young enough to reproduce, and the first live births of captive elephants didn’t even happen in America until the 1960s. Currently, it ...
Wild Asian elephants live to be about 60 years old. While female captive elephants are recorded to have lived beyond 60 years when kept in semi-natural surroundings, Asian elephants die at a much younger age in captivity; captive populations are declining due to a low birth and high death rate.
[168] [169] These animals do not reproduce well in captivity due to the difficulty of handling musth bulls and limited understanding of female oestrous cycles. Asian elephants were always more common than their African counterparts in modern zoos and circuses.
Mare Noi was rescued from captivity recently, and luckily for us a new viral video shows her taking her first steps without chains in 41 years. Aaron Jackson has been documenting the many ...
The 1941 movie Dumbo might have made it seem as if elephants in captivity were having babies, but the first successful captive elephant birth didn’t occur for over twenty years after that film ...
Morphological measurements of fifteen captive elephants from Peninsular Malaysia and of six elephants from Sabah were taken between April 2005 and January 2006, and repeated three times for each elephant and averaged. There was no significant difference in any of the characters between the two captive populations.
35 elephants suddenly dropped dead in 2020, and no one could explain why, yet these new findings may just be the answer. 35 elephants suddenly dropped dead in 2020, and no one could explain why ...