{"id":1400,"date":"2008-12-04T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T08:58:15","slug":"oldest-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2008\/12\/04\/oldest-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK newspaper ‘The Independent’ today featured this spine tingling story<\/a> about what is probably the world’s oldest animal, and reminding us that man doesn’t hold all the cards – especially when it comes to longevity.<\/p>\n

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A Galapogos tortoise (photo WikiCommons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I gave Nippy, the world’s oldest gibbon, a mention earlier this year<\/a> when he passed away at almost 60 years of age. Now we find there is actual photographic evidence that a giant tortoise from St.Helena has probably lived to more than 175 years. That would make ‘Jonathan’ the world’s oldest living animal.<\/p>\n

Of course there are trees and funghi that have lived much longer, but without resorting to the fantasy of Tolkien’s noble ‘Ents’<\/a>, its not the same thing.<\/p>\n

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Ancient sequoia……not the same thing (photo WikiCommons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last excitement we had in the same vein was the death of the Galapagos tortoise ‘Harriet’<\/a>, who reached 175 years spot-on, and the accolade she may have owned the oldest eyeballs to have formed an image of the living Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n

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UK newspaper ‘The Independent’ today featured this spine tingling story about what is probably the world’s oldest animal, and reminding us that man doesn’t hold all the cards – especially when it comes to longevity. I gave Nippy, the world’s oldest gibbon, a mention earlier this year when he passed away at almost 60 years … Continue reading Oldest Animal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,105,101,10],"tags":[33,398,399,400,401,397],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals","category-evolution","category-history","category-news","tag-darwin","tag-galapogos","tag-longevity","tag-oldest-living-animal","tag-sequoia","tag-tortoise"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/tortoise.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-mA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18209,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/18209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}