What animals live the longest lives?
2006-06-18 08:03:37 · 20 answers · asked by GDK 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
The giant tortoise lives the longest, about 177 years in captivity, and the gastrotrich (a minute aquatic animal) lives the shortest ≈ three days
If we just look at mammals, then primates are the longest lived group and man is the longest lived of the primates: 122 years. Tiny shrews live the shortest: maybe 1 to 1.5 years.
2006-06-22 16:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by canadian_beaver_77 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Madagascar radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata) presented to the Tongan royal family by the British explorer Captain Cook in either 1773 or 1777 lived to the age of at least 188. It died in 1965. The animal was called Tui Malila.
2006-06-18 08:22:11 · answer #2 · answered by elchistoso69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turtle
2006-06-18 08:11:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably a type of tortoise. Scientists found some with shrapnel from the civil war in living ones a few years back. I'm not sure what kind they were, just big!
2006-06-18 08:07:30 · answer #4 · answered by Mithrandir_black 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tortoises lead extraordinary long lives. Some have been know to live for up to 200 years.
2006-06-18 08:08:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Loch Ness monster!lol
2006-06-18 08:18:40 · answer #6 · answered by cpinatsi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Giant tortuses can live to be nearly 100 years old
Female tarantulas can live to be nearly 35-40 years in captivitiy
Lobsters can live to be 100
Cockroaches don't live more than a month.
2006-06-25 07:01:52 · answer #7 · answered by Smart S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read that Winston Churchill's Moluccan Cockatoo lived to be 126 years old. I don't have proof, I wasn't there. I think I read it in a bird magazine a few years ago.
2006-06-18 08:14:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turtle-turtle.
2006-06-18 08:10:24 · answer #9 · answered by coolchick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some species of turtles
2006-06-18 08:07:35 · answer #10 · answered by Plain truth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋