The average lifespan of an African Penguin is 10 to 27 years in the wild, and possibly longer in captivity.

Many countries with the largest youth bulge are African nations severely afflicted by the HIV / AIDS epidemic, which has decreased overall lifespan dramatically.

The average lifespan of an African civet is fifteen to twenty years.

Further effects of this disease run deep, radically impacting the expected average lifespan as reported by the BBC News: " expected average lifespan is falling in many African countries-a girl born today in Sierra Leone could expect only to live to 36, in contrast to Japan, where today's newborn girl might reach 85 on average.

Median lifespan based on a UK Kennel Club survey is 9 years 1 month.

Its lifespan in captivity is around two to three years, although in ideal conditions, this may be extended to five years.

The JSAN is a near-direct port of the CPAN infrastructure for use with the JavaScript language, which for most of its lifespan did not have a cohesive " community ".

The lifespan of the capybara's sperm is longer than that of other rodents.

The infant is weaned at about three years old, but usually maintains a close relationship with its mother for several more years ; it reaches puberty at the age of eight to 10, and its lifespan in captivity is about 50 years.

In such a situation, a company's lifespan was measured by its burn rate: that is, the rate at which a non-profitable company lacking a viable business model ran through its capital served as the metric.

Obsidimen can live around 500 years away from their Liferock, and their ultimate lifespan is unknown, as they generally return to it and remain there.

Nutton believes that " On Theriac to Piso " is genuine, the Arabic sources are correct and that the Suda has erroneously interpreted the 70 years of Galen's career in the Arabic tradition as referring to his whole lifespan.

Gas masks have a limited useful lifespan that is related to the absorbent capacity of the filter.

The exploitation of human clones for dangerous and undesirable work was examined in the 2009 British science fiction film Moon, where the protagonist discovers that he is simply one clone out of many that maintain a mining camp on the moon during the duration of a three year lifespan.

This contrasts with a closed-ended fund, which either has a limited number of shares which are traded among investors, and which distributes its profits, or which has a limited lifespan at the end of which capital is returned to investors.

There is little reliable information about the lifespan of the koala, but in captivity they have been observed to reach the age of 18 years.

Their lifespan is up to 40 or 45 years.

He is best known for his book The Decline of the West ( Der Untergang des Abendlandes ), published in 1918 and 1922, where he proposed a new theory, according to which the lifespan of civilizations is limited and ultimately they decay.

Since habitats have a lifespan measured in millennia this is regarded as a form of immortality.

The lifespan of parliament is limited by the constitution to five years and, though the governor general may still, on the advice of the prime minister, dissolve parliament and issue the writs of election prior to the date mandated by the Canada Elections Act ; the King-Byng Affair was the only time since Confederation that the viceroy deemed it necessary to refuse his prime minister's request for a general vote.

The average lifespan is between eight and 10 years, but individuals have been known to reach 15 years.

The average lifespan of any given rat depends on which species is being discussed, but many only live about a year due to predation.

The expected rabbit lifespan is about 9 – 12 years ; the world's longest-lived was 18 years.

Kes is an Ocampa, a race native to the Delta Quadrant, with a lifespan of only 9 years.

The Sun is thought to be in the middle of its lifespan ; thus, it is currently on the main sequence.

Scorpions have quite variable lifespans and the actual lifespan of most species is not known.

Growers harvest abacá fields every three to eight months after an initial growth period of 12 – 25 months and a total lifespan of about 10 years.

Roy suggests several means of extending his lifespan ( demonstrating that he possesses at least equal knowledge to that of his creator about his physical construction ), but Tyrell reveals that he already tried each of these suggestions, failing in every attempt.

Each granule has a lifespan of only about eight minutes, resulting in a continually shifting " boiling " pattern.

During a typical lifespan, a person spends a total of about six years dreaming ( which is about two hours each night ).

The lifespan of a bonobo in captivity is about 40 years.

Typical peach cultivars begin bearing fruit in their third year and have a lifespan of about 12 years.

The average lifespan of wild cassowaries is believed to be about 40 to 50 years.

They have an average length of 20 inches ( 51 cm ) including a 5 inch ( 13 cm ) tail, weigh about, and have a natural lifespan of 7 to 10 years.

Interestingly, the same device that PC World called " one of the 50 greatest gadgets of the last 50 years " had a very short lifespan, from only about 1989-1994.

The ringtail's lifespan in the wild is about seven years .< ref >

The average lifespan of a wild king cobra is about 20 years.

They can have a lifespan of up to 10 years, or normally about five in an aquarium.

The environmental impact of meat production is high due to the resource and energy requirements that go into production of feed for livestock throughout their lifespan, for example, a kilgram of beef uses about 60 times as much water as an equivalent amount of potato.

The longest a human has ever been proven to live is 122 years, the case of Jeanne Calment who was born in 1875 and died in 1997, whereas the maximum lifespan of a mouse, commonly used as a model in research on aging, is about four years.

The lifespan is about 2 years, although individual specimens have been reported to live over 4 years in captivity.

Choughs generally have a lifespan of about seven years, although an age of 17 years has been recorded.

The lifespan of the species in the wild is about four to six years.

The lifespan of the accretion disks is about 10 million years.

In consequence, mortality among young female Leadbeater's possums is high — average female lifespan is little more than 27 months, as opposed to about 10 years in captivity.