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Meet The Top Ten World Oldest Living Animals
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Here are top 9 oldest Animals ever recorded in history of men...
1)The Female Gorilla.
The oldest female gorilla living today is thought to be 61.
Their lifespan in the wild ranges from 30 to 40 years. In captivity, they can live into their 50s and beyond. Until her death at age 60 in 2017, Colo, a western lowland gorilla at the Columbus Zoo, was the world's oldest zoo-born gorilla.
2)Laysan albatross also known as wisdom.
Wisdom, the oldest known banded birdin the wild, is a female Laysan albatrossthat nests within the world's largest albatross colony on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. She is at least 69-years old and a world renowned symbol of hope for all species that depend upon the health of the ocean to survive.
3) Elephant also known as Ambika.
Ambika at the National Zoo inWashington, DC is thoght to be 71 yearsold, likely making her the oldest livingelephant. Asian elephants can typically live into their mid-50s. However, a few have made it into their 80s. Lin Wang, an Asian elephant at Taipei Zoo in Taiwan, lived to be 86.
4)Cockatoo.
A sulphur-crested cockatoo has apparently made it to his 100th year, surpassing most birds of his kind by 60 years. Keeping to tradition, Fred - the flying-centenarian, was sent a letter from The Queen at Buckingham Palace to mark his special milestone.
5) Jonathan.
Born circa 1832, five years prior to the coronation of Queen Victoria,Jonathanthe tortoise is due to turn 187 years old in 2019. That makes him the oldest known land animal alive today.
As of December 2015, Jonathan was reported to be "alive and well, He's blind from cataracts, has lost his sense of smell, and so cannot detect food (his fellow giants mug me and can detect the tiniest morsel dropped on the ground), but he has retained excellent hearing."
6)Henry.
The Southland Museum cares for over 100 tuatara, all at different stages of development; from new born babies to teenagers, to our world famous Henry, who is over 110 years old, though it has become closely associated with Southland, the tuatara has become extinct on New Zealand's North and South Island.
The endangered reptile is often calleda 'living fossil', in part because of its dedicated adherence to a body plan laid down hundreds of million years ago. To look at a tuatara is to look back in time to the Late Triassic period, when the reptile's ancient relatives skittered among dinosaurs and giant ferns.
7)Bowhead whales.
Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), denizens of Arctic seas, are known to live more than 200 years, yet they show few signs of the age-related ailments that plague other animals, including humans. Even the bowhead's closest cetacean relative, the much smaller minke whale, lives only 50 years.
8) Greenland shark.
Greenland sharks are now the longest-living vertebrates known on Earth, scientists say. Researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of 28 of the animals, and estimated that one female was about 400 years old.
9)Ocean quahog.
One of the Arctica islandica bivalve molluscs, also known as ocean quahogs, that the researchers picked up from the Icelandic seabed turned out to be around 405 years old, and thus the world's oldest animal.
Well if not for our sinful way of living, human being are meant to live more than any living thing on earth.
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