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TEN LONGEST- LIVED VERTEBRATES

10 LONGEST- LIVED VERTEBRATES

01 Aldabra giant tortoise


Aldabrachelys gigantea oldest individual recorded: 255 years
Adwaita was a male tortoise reputedly given to Robert Clive in the 18th century. in around 1876 it was transferred to the Alipore Zoo in Kolkata, where it lived until its death in 2006. Adwaita’s age cannot be definitively confirmed; the longestlived reptile for which an age has been verified was Tu’i Malila, a radiated tortoise reputedly given to the Tongan royal family by Captain Cook in 1777, and which died in 1965 at the age of 188.

02 Koi fish


Cyprinus carpio haematopterus 226 years the oldest-known koi, called Hanako, died in 1977.

03 bowhead whale


Balaena mysticetus 211 years 200-year-old spears have been found in some bowheads.

04 tuatara


Sphenodon punctatus 115 years old Henry, a tuatara in new Zealand, became a father at the age of 111 in 2009.

05 blue and yellow macaw


Ara ararauna 104 years churchill reputedly owned the macaw named charlie.


06 Asian elephant


Elephas maximus 86 years lin Wang or ‘Grandpa lin’ died in taipei Zoo in 2003.

07 horse


Equus ferus caballus 51 years the liver chestnut stallion named shayne died in essex in 2013.

08 cow


Bos primagenius 48 years
‘Big Bertha’ died three months before her 49th birthday.

09 Goldfish 


Carassius auratus auratus 43 years tish died in north yorkshire in 1999.


10 polar bear


Ursus maritimus 42 years ‘Debbie’ died at Assiniboine Zoo in Winnipeg in 2008.



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