Wild-Caught Elephants Die Years Early In Captivity

New research into captive elephant lifespans reveals that wild-caught animals live shorter lives.Elephants are critical to the logging industry across Southeast Asia, even though the animals are endangered. And in Myanmar, a country long largely cutoff from the world, the animals are an especially integral part of the workforce. For centuries, Myanmar kings employed the beasts in their armies. And since the early 1700s, the country’s government has used the giants as draft animals to harve