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> It has been estimated as little as 5% of elephants ultimately succumb to cancer, compared to 25% of humans. That's a scary percentage. And probably will incr
by mx_03 1y ago
> It has been estimated as little as 5% of elephants ultimately succumb to cancer, compared to 25% of humans.
That's a scary percentage. And probably will increase if we dont radically change our life style and status quo
- SirFatty 1y agoYeah, I'm pretty sure elephants don't consume a lot of Red 40, ultra processed food, and PFAS and PFOA. Well, not yet anyway.
- robertlagrant 1y agoAlso they didn't innovate their ways out of lots of other types of death, making cancer proportionately larger.
- gus_massa 1y agoProbably a lot of elephants die to infections because they don't have antibiotics, or famine or poaching or the flu or a lot of other causes that we reduced.
- AndrewDucker 1y agoIt's so high because we eradicated so many other things that used to kill us off early. Looking at the leading causes of death in the UK[1] they're: dementia, heart disease, strokes, lung cancer, flu. If you lowered any of those then the rates of the others would go up. [1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregistrationsummarytables/2023#leading-causes-of-death https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...