{"id":86313,"date":"2025-06-18T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/how-long-do-elephants-live-average-lifespan-of-african-asian-species\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T22:49:21","slug":"how-long-do-elephants-live-average-lifespan-of-african-asian-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/how-long-do-elephants-live-average-lifespan-of-african-asian-species\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long do Elephants Live? Average Lifespan of African, Asian Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African elephants live for 56-70 years in the wild but only live for an average of 17 years while in captivity. Asian elephants live for 40-70 years in the wild but only live for an average of 19 years while in captivity. Some elephants die within a few years of being in captivity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storyteller.travel\/how-long-do-elephants-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/storyteller.travel\/how-long-do-elephants-live\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African elephants live for 56-70 years in the wild but only live for an average of 17 years while in captivity. Asian elephants live for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","wpcat-3-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}