{"id":748350,"date":"2022-01-13T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/tortoise-declared-oldest-ever-at-190-years-or-more\/"},"modified":"2022-01-13T19:25:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T19:25:41","slug":"tortoise-declared-oldest-ever-at-190-years-or-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/13\/tortoise-declared-oldest-ever-at-190-years-or-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortoise declared oldest ever at 190 years or more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jonathan, a giant tortoise with an estimated age of at least 190 years, was officially declared the oldest\u00a0chelonian ever by Guinness World Records. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records<\/p>\n

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Jan. 13 (UPI) —<\/span> A tortoise previously declared the world’s oldest living land animal by Guinness World Records has been awarded a second title — the oldest tortoise ever.<\/p>\n

Jonathan, a tortoise that lives on St. Helena, a British overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean, is believed to be at least 190 years old, as the animal was fully mature — at least 50 years old — when he arrived on St. Helena in 1882.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

The tortoise’s latest Guinness World Records title is officially “oldest chelonian,” a category including all turtles, terrapins and tortoises.<\/p>\n

The previous record-holder was Tu’i Malila, a radiated tortoise that died at the estimated age of 188 in 1965.<\/p>\n

The St. Helena government said Jonathan is blind and has lost his sense of smell, but eats well when hand-fed by his veterinary team.<\/p>\n

Veterinarian Joe Hollins said Jonathan still is active, and often enjoys the company of fellow giant tortoises David, Emma and Fred.<\/p>\n

“In spite of his age, Jonathan still has good libido and is seen frequently to mate with Emma and sometimes Fred — animals are often not particularly gender-sensitive,” Hollins told Guinness.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jonathan, a giant tortoise with an estimated age of at least 190 years, was officially declared the oldest\u00a0chelonian ever by Guinness World Records. Photo courtesy of Guinness World Records Jan. 13 (UPI) — A tortoise previously declared the world’s oldest living land animal by Guinness World Records has been awarded a second title — the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}