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03-13-2014, 05:57 PM | #1 |
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Jonathan the 182-year-old tortoise is oldest living animal
http://shine.yahoo.com/pets/tortoise...180300866.html
Just what do you get a 182-year-old for his birthday? Well, if it's Jonathan the giant tortoise, thought to be the world's oldest living land animal, a bunch of bananas or a few carrots would be perfect. But not too many—overindulging on anything but grass gives him an upset stomach. More on Yahoo: Belgian Shepherd Dog Sniffs Out South Africa's Rare Tortoise Jonathan lives on St. Helena, a remote British-governed island in the South Atlantic where Napoleon was exiled in 1815 and died in 1821. No one knows precisely how he got there. His species, Dipsochelys hololissa, is native to the Seychelles, located in the Indian Ocean—thousands of miles away around the tip of Africa. Driven to near extinction by the mid-1800s, there are fewer than 15 Seychelles tortoises left, all in captivity. According to a recent profile of Jonathan by the BBC, tortoises were once stacked on trading ships as a convenient source of food. Somehow, he managed to escape becoming a sailor's dinner and ended up living nearly two peaceful centuries on the rolling lawn of Plantation House, the governor's mansion, along with four other tortoise companions, David, Emma, Fredrika, and Myrtle. His life has spanned the reigns of seven British monarchs, and he's seen 33 different governors of the island come and go. |
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03-13-2014, 06:50 PM | #2 |
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With the margin bullshit going on in this thread, there's no way I'm reading that shit.
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03-13-2014, 06:53 PM | #3 |
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all i can think of is hubie the galapagos turtle
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03-13-2014, 06:56 PM | #4 |
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He probably wants to be dead.
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03-13-2014, 07:00 PM | #5 |
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whales can live that long and since whales are usually underwater I am going to assert there is probably a whale older than this bitch turtle
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03-13-2014, 07:09 PM | #6 |
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Please copy and paste more news articles thanks
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03-14-2014, 03:06 AM | #7 |
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Probably only 60 or 70 years on the oldest human.
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03-15-2014, 02:47 AM | #8 |
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how do they know he's that old? he might be lying.
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03-15-2014, 06:34 PM | #9 |
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03-15-2014, 10:11 PM | #10 |
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03-16-2014, 01:42 AM | #11 |
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When I glance at this thread title I keep on thinking it's a thread about blink-182
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03-16-2014, 08:04 PM | #12 |
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If he's that old his memory is probably shot, so he's probably always wondering what his age is, again.
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03-16-2014, 08:14 PM | #13 |
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03-16-2014, 08:47 PM | #14 |
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He's so old, it seems like he might last forever, forever, and ever.
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03-16-2014, 10:01 PM | #15 |
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i read somewhere that there was a turtle who died in the 70s that lived through the american revolution and the civil war and ww2 ect. it was from india and then traded off by merchants and ended up in america.
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03-16-2014, 10:03 PM | #16 |
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I can't recall the source, but I read once about a whale killed by japanese whalers in the 2000s that had a spearhead imbedded deep in its body that was dated back to whalers from new england in the late 1700s
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