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How come bigger animals tend to live longer than smaller ones?

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 12:19:05 2022 No.14258325 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14258335 >>14258347 >>14258370 >>14258373 >>14258709 >>14258821 >>14260847 >>14260944 >>14261032

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 12:22:50 No.14258331 Report

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it takes longer to grow bigger necessitating longer lifespans.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 12:25:21 No.14258335 Report

Quoted By: >>14258366 >>14260693

>>14258325
Until they get too big, then they die early

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 12:32:36 No.14258347 Report

Quoted By: >>14258370

>>14258325
Smaller animals have a faster metabolism and burn out more quickly. It's also not always true. We are smaller than elephants but live longer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 12:41:45 No.14258366 Report

Quoted By: >>14258376 >>14258418

>>14258335
Not really.
If a human or dog gets much bigger than what they're supposed to be then yes they will have problems since their bones and organs were not meant for that size.
But an elephant that's evolved to be 5 tons won't have any issue being BIG.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 12:43:32 No.14258370 Report

Quoted By: >>14258441

>>14258325
More mass means a tumor isn't as bad.Maybe a 10gr tumor for a mouse is an issue but for an elephamt that's like less than 10%.
>>14258347
Humans live longer thanks to medicine and the study of diets/excercise.If we were 100% the avarage would be lower.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 12:44:35 No.14258373 Report

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>>14258325
Smaller gets eated

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 12:44:55 No.14258376 Report

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>>14258366
That's because their bodies are used to be being huge. If a small body has more than it can support it dies. It's like with a glass of water

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 13:08:06 No.14258418 Report

Quoted By: >>14258423 >>14258836

>>14258366
If you could control every single human on earth all at once, and then scaled up their growth rate. Most would likely die but some would indeed survive. This is how evolution works anon.

Elephants are big because incidentally they/their ancestors found a way to make it work and fuck a lot/have lots of babies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 13:11:03 No.14258423 Report

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>>14258418
no retard
if you scaled up a million bacteria to human size some would not magically keep functioning, they would just all die
it takes a lot of time and gradual adaptations for a species to get that big

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 13:20:13 No.14258441 Report

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>>14258370
>Humans live longer thanks to medicine and the study of diets/excercise.
We give medical care to our pets as well and they still don't live nearly as long. It's veterinary practice. Also they run tons of studies in the best feed formulations for animals, which solves the diet issue. Even a thousand years ago humans still lived into their fifties, sixties, and seventies. Humans just have an abnormally long life

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 15:24:31 No.14258709 Report

Quoted By: >>14258717

>>14258325
>How come bigger animals tend to live longer than smaller ones?
They don't...?

Taller people have a shorter life expectancy. The oldest living humans on average are the short people among East Asians.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 15:28:16 No.14258717 Report

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>>14258709
Humans are large animals.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 16:26:58 No.14258821 Report

Quoted By: >>14258825

>>14258325
That rule isn't always true. Macaws can live to be over sixty, while large animals like cows will be hard pressed to reach twenty

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Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 16:28:00 No.14258825 Report

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>>14258821
Forgot my pic

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Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 16:31:46 No.14258836 Report

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>>14258423

This post >>14258418 is correct.

Your utopian thinking is blinding you to the concept of orders of magnitude. But that's okay, because this is /sci/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 18:50:10 No.14259109 Report

Quoted By: >>14259324 >>14261067

im surprised you-know-who isnt in here yet.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 23 Feb 2022 20:09:24 No.14259324 Report

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>>14259109
Good call

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Feb 2022 09:15:27 No.14260693 Report

Quoted By: >>14260764

>>14258335
The blue whale, the largest known animal to have ever existed has a life expectancy of 70 - 90 years.

El Arcón

El Arcón Thu 24 Feb 2022 09:30:48 No.14260704 Report

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Mammals live for on the order of about 10^9 heartbeats and smaller animals have faster heartrates.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Feb 2022 10:49:30 No.14260764 Report

Quoted By: >>14260820

>>14260693
Lives in the ocean, buoyancy counteracts constant effect of gravity on joints.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Feb 2022 11:39:23 No.14260820 Report

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>>14260764
Is this not counteracted by constantly needing to be in motion in water?

i am the one who asks

i am the one who asks Thu 24 Feb 2022 12:07:29 No.14260847 Report

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>>14258325
>How come bigger animals tend to live longer than smaller ones?
its quite the opposite
small dogs live 2x 3x times longer than big ones

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Feb 2022 13:09:16 No.14260944 Report

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>>14258325
>big animal and small animal born at the same time
>big animal grows up
>small animal grows up
>big animal steps on small animal
>big animal dies of natural causes 10 years later
IN THE CIRRRRCLEEEEEEE, THE CIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIIIIIFE

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Feb 2022 14:08:00 No.14261032 Report

Quoted By: >>14261034

>>14258325
Metabolism slower resulting in slower development & neoteny lasting longer. Axolotls and the immortal jellyfish stay neotenous indefinitely.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Feb 2022 14:10:23 No.14261034 Report

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>>14261032
Paedomorphisis is the simpler answer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Feb 2022 14:31:00 No.14261054 Report

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For animals with an average lifespan of 1-5 years, evolution doesn't get enough time to balance their entropy resistance. It has nothing to do with size.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 24 Feb 2022 14:38:37 No.14261067 Report

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>>14259109
hi guys, sorry I'm late. I yearn to be inserted, dildo-like, into the moist cavern of a giantess. any questions

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