A recent study conducted on the health and wellbeing of captive elephants, led by Georgia Mason of the University of Guelph has hit a blow on the faces of the Zoos that see themselves as a shelter for saving the endangered species.
The study, first of its kinds on the health of captive elephants, has put forward a surprising fact that elephants in Zoos die much younger than elephants in the wild. Furthermore, the study also claims that baby elephants born in captivity too have a shorter life span than those caught in the wild for the zoos.