Monday, August 4, 2014

Jonathan The Tortoise Photographed In 1902 And Today

Posted by Fiona at 8:21 AM
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Although he may be not as fast as he used to be, 182-year-old Jonathan the giant tortoise is still going strong. He just might be the oldest living tortoise, or even terrestrial animal, in the world. It is thought that Jonathan was brought to the island of St. Helena in 1882. A photo from 1902 shows him at his full adult size and it can take 50 years for a giant tortoise to reach its adult size, meaning that he could have been born in 1832. Jonathan is probably the oldest land animal currently living, but he isn’t the oldest ever – other tortoises have lived longer, with one unconfirmed tortoise in India that may have lived up to as many as 250 years of age.

 1902 vs Today









3 comments :

  1. Leonel Torres GarciaAugust 5, 2014 at 12:45 AM

    great resume of 300

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  2. David MowersJanuary 19, 2015 at 10:59 PM

    Of course this military-style governance whereby the upper classes lived a liberal, egalitarian, free lifestyle, controlling all trades and trade by sea, it left the lower classes subject to a communistic totalitarian one, where they could be killed by a Spartan warrior for staring too long, in the end amounted to not much of anything save glorified myths since Sparta lost most of the wars it fought in.

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  3. David MowersJanuary 19, 2015 at 11:01 PM

    The best part about Leonidas is the journal entries by Xerxes where he says that man died being overwhelmed by Persian soldiers but as he went down he bit the fingers off the hands of men.

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