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    Jonathan the tortoise is officially a Guinness World Records ICON. Believed to have been born c. 1832, Jonathan is the oldest living land animal at the grand old age of 194 years. He is a Seychelles giant tortoise and the average life expectancy of his species is 150
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    Jonathan the tortoise is officially a Guinness World Records ICON. Believed to have been born c. 1832, Jonathan is the oldest living land animal at the grand old age of 194 years. He is a Seychelles giant tortoise and the average life expectancy of his species is 150


    Jonathan the tortoise is officially a Guinness World Records ICON. Believed to have been born c. 1832, Jonathan is the oldest living land animal at the grand old age of 194 years. He is a Seychelles giant tortoise and the average life expectancy of his species is 150



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    1. boobookittyfuwk on

      Jonathan, thats a perfect name.

      Theres a tortoise on my street. This old lady lives in the house and apparently it was already living in the backyard when she bought it 50 years ago. She goes walking with it sometimes, they match each other’s pace.

    3. frozyrosie on

      very cool. however, he gives me the same unsettled, ā€œthat has to be an animatronicā€ feeling that Shoebill Storks do.

    5. ___--_-_----___--__- on

      Remember when they said he was dead but reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated?

    6. Own-Importance5459 on

      ![gif](giphy|AgPt9udT567spxbSHf)

      I mean imagine seeing the freaking Civil War and Taylor Swift in the same damn lifetime. Wild.

    7. porygon_sucks on

      1832, huh? So you’re telling me Jonathan saw slavery and did NOTHING!

      /S

    14. Reeferologist- on

      Man I hope whoever started that Johnathan death rumor a month ago has stubbed his toe every morning since then.

    19. common_sense_canada on

      Wow, he may have witnessed war veterans from the Napoleonic era. Crazy.

    20. StinkingDogsCunt420 on

      I do not, and will not, recognise the authority of guiness as world record keepers.

      Cool tortoise though.

    23. sudde004 on

      Worked at an animal rescue center in Ecuador many years ago. They had a Galapagos tortoise that was believed to be about 80yrs old. The sweet boy would walk to the fence (very slowly) anytime someone was close by. He enjoyed getting his neck and head scratched. Miss that dude.

    24. Inconspicuous_Jay on

      So much chaos and change over the course of his life and he’s blissfully unaware of any of it, I’m envious

    25. gimmepizza420 on

      The title is technically correct, but only because it uses the word “land”. There is marine life that lives longer than this.

      Most notably the freenland shark, which can live for hundreds of years, estimated up to about 500 years. Noteable because they are the longest living vertibrates.

      Take away the vertibrae, though, and it gets pretty nutty. Some sponges live thousands of years. There’s also a jellyfish that is theoretically immortal.