Animal World
JONATHAN IS PROBABLY OLDEST AND LONGEST LIVING TORTOISE ALIVE
Jonathan 183 Year old Giant Tortoise who lives in St.Helina Island, He Might be the oldest living Land Animal on Earth
He was brought to St helina in 1882, when he was fully mature means that of 50 years old.
Born in 1832, He is now 183 years old and going Strong. He have been through two world wars and numerous revolutions, He was even photographed, looking rather elderly, with a prisoner during the Boer War, which ended in 1902
He has been kept in the paddock at Plantation House, the British governor’s residence ever since, where visitors can observe his (lack of) movements at an appropriate distance from a viewing corridor.