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Originally Posted by GambleLifeAway
kind of a random question but i was at the zoo the other day and when i was reading about the animals i noticed that most of them have pretty short life expectancies and i'm basically wondering why? when we consider the top land predators, these dudes are built physically superior to us in strength, cardio, endurance and a million other ways i imagine. their diets are ridiculously healthy and they have super active lifestyles, don't fall victim to substance abuse yada yada...strictly speaking about the top dawgs here, obv prey animals should have shorter lives...but mountain lions live only to 18ish wtf?? at first i thought it might be cuz they overclock their bodies by operating at full speed 24/7 but then i remembered that cats are like the laziest species alive so lack of rest/recovery certainly isn't the issue here...any thoughts?
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There is some kind of relationship between metabolism and life expectancy if i remember it right. Generally speaking the bigger the animal the longer they will tend to live.
Think I actually read somewhere that most animals live through about the same amount of heart beats in a lifetime. So if an elephant has a fourth of the avg heartrate as some small animal then it will also roughly live about four times as long.
What makes you think these land predators are living such healthy lives tho? It probably resembles somewhat how humans lived 10k+ years ago, and i think life expectancy was way way lower then than now.
All the knowledge we humans have about treating diseases and preserving food etc adds a ton to our overall "healthiness". Drugs, fatty foods and alcohol or more like minor bumps in the road for the vast vast majority of us.
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