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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 6 months agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05515-8
Differences in age-specific mortality between wild-caught and captive-born Asian elephantsWild Asian elephants have been and continue to be captured to supplement captive populations. Here, Lahdenperä et al. use records from Myanmar timber elephants to show that wild-caught elephants have increased mortality compared to captive-born elephants for many years after capture.
