{"id":467593,"date":"2026-04-26T21:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/how-long-do-elephants-live-average-lifespan-of-african-asian-species\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:17:31","slug":"how-long-do-elephants-live-average-lifespan-of-african-asian-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/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=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kunsthaus-zurich-ch","wpcat-11-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}