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Dog

The oldest (confirmed) dog that ever lived was an Australian cattle dog named Bluey, who was born in 1910 and died in 1939, at the age of 29.

However, an Australian kelpie named Maggie died in 2016 at the reported age of 30, but unfortunately, this cannot be confirmed.

Cat

The oldest cat to ever live was named Creme Puff, and she was born in 1967 and died in 2005, at the exact age of 38 years and 3 days. The photo above was taken when she was 29 years old.

Gorilla

Colo became the first gorilla born in human care in late 1956, and became the oldest confirmed gorilla ever when she died in early 2017, a month after her 60th birthday.

Another gorilla, Trudy, died at the estimated age of 62, but it cannot be confirmed, and two living gorillas, Fatou and Helen, are supposedly 61-62 years old, but this too, cannot be confirmed.

Dolphin

The oldest confirmed dolphin (and this includes all species, including killer whales) was a bottlenose dolphin named Nellie who was born at Marineland Dolphin Adventure (then Marine Studios) in 1953, and only the fourth dolphin calf in human care to survive infancy. She died in 2014, two months after her 61st birthday.

A contender is the Australian humpback dolphin Amity, who was caught in 1968 and died at Sea World Gold Coast in 2019, estimated to be as old as 66 years old, but this is impossible to confirm. (Articles reporting her death all stated her to be “55″, but this is inconsistent with all reports before her death, stating she was over 60 years old, and Ceta-Base tentatively putting her birth in 1953.)

No claims of 80-100 year old killer whales have been confirmed, and the extreme age of Granny has long been debunked. For now, the oldest known killer whale is Corky, who will officially be estimated at 56 years next month (January 2020).

Chimpanzee

The oldest confirmed chimpanzee was a female named Garbo who was born at a research facility in 1953, and died in 2015, less than a month before her 62nd birthday. There are several other chimps (Little Mama, Gregoire and Susie) who have reportedly lived to ages from 65 to 82, but these cannot be confirmed, as their ages were simply estimated later in life.

Orangutan

This one is difficult, as I can find no “oldest orangutan” with their birth year absolutely confirmed, including the oldest living today, including 59-year old Inji at Oregon Zoo.

However, the believed oldest orangutan ever was Puan, pictured above, who died in 2018 at the estimated age of 62.

Horse

There are no photos of the oldest horse ever, as he lived so long ago. Old Billy was a barge horse born in 1760, and he died in 1822 at the age of 62. His head is today taxidermied and on display. Judging from the date on the painting, 1803, he was 43 years old when depicted in this painting.

Manatee

The oldest manatee ever known was also, like Nellie the dolphin, one the first born in an aquarium. Snooty was born in 1948, and died in 2017, two days after his 69th birthday. His death, strangely and unfortunately, was an accidental drowning due to a fault in his enclosure. Because of this, we will never know how old he could have become.

Parrot

While stories of parrots well past the age of 100 years are well-known, not one of these has been confirmed. The oldest confirmed parrot was a male Major Mitchell’s cockatoo named Cookie, who was hatched in 1933 in Australia, and died at Brookfield Zoo in 2016, at the age of 83.

Elephant

The oldest confirmed elephant to ever live was a male Asian elephant named Lin Wang (initially named “Ah Mei”), born late 1917 in Burma, and died in early 2003 at Taipei Zoo at the age of 85. The above photo was taken in 1947, when he was 30 years old.

Human

Claims of the oldest people to ever live are usually controversial and difficult to confirm, as we often deal with people born in the late 1800s (now all gone) and early 1900s, where birth certificates may have gone lost over the years, or never existed in the first place.

However, the one human tentatively confirmed to be the world’s oldest, was Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who was born in 1875, and died in 1997 at the age of 122. At that point, she was both blind and deaf.

Her age has been contested over the years, including the claim that her only daughter (who supposedly died on her 36th birthday) took her mother’s identity.

Nevertheless, if she was genuine, her age makes her remarkable not only because she lived 122 years, but because there is no other that comes really close. Number two lived 119 years, and number 3-8 all lived 117 years.

And yes, my haters can take note that I still believe humans are apes and animals.

Tortoise

Very hard for any vertebrate to beat, is the lifespan of a giant tortoise. And the oldest confirmed tortoise was Tu’i Malila, a radiated tortoise reportedly taken from Madagascar by James Cook, and who died in 1965 at the age of 188.

Pictured above however, is Adwaita. He is believed to have come into the world in the 1750s in the Seychelles, was caught and given to a man named Robert Clive, then came to Alipore Zoo around 1875, and died there in 2006, at the estimated age of 255.

The oldest living tortoise today is Jonathan, the same species as Adwaita and by 2020, he will be 188 years old, so he may soon break Tu’i Malila’s record. The photos above span 128 years, and both depict Jonathan.

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Meet Jonathan, The 187-Year-Old Tortoise, The Oldest Animal

Jonathan is one of several giant tortoises that live on the grounds of Plantation House, the residence of the Governor of St Helena. Jonathan is the most famous

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