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Because of the resulting food shortage, the smaller-beaked medium ground finches — who didn't try to compete with the bigger birds for large seeds — were outliving their larger-beaked brethren.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2016

Seventy years later, average life expectancy had increased by twenty-five years, but females were outliving males by an average of about four years.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.