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Jonathan (hatched c. 1832) [2] [3] is a Seychelles giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea hololissa), a subspecies of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea). His approximate age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025, making him the oldest known living land animal .
Jonathan is the oldest tortoise and the oldest known living mammal on the planet. The year that Jonathan was born, Andrew Jackson was president, William IV was ... Kings and queens have died ...
Jonathan in 2021. Tu'i Malila, a radiated tortoise, died at the age of 188 in May 1966, at the time the oldest verified vertebrate. [114] This tortoise was hatched in 1777. Harriet, a Galápagos tortoise, died at the age of 175 in June 2006. [115] Timothy, a Greek tortoise, born in Turkey died at the age of 165 on 3 April 2004 in the UK. [116]
As of 2022, Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, is thought to be the oldest living giant tortoise at the age of 193 years. [25] Esmeralda, an Aldabra giant tortoise, is second at the age of 181 years, since the death of Harriet, a Galapagos giant tortoise, at 175. An Aldabra giant tortoise living on Changuu off Zanzibar is reportedly 199 ...
Jonathan the tortoise, who hatched in the Georgian era, is the oldest known living land animal on Earth (St Helena/PA) “The world wars, the rise and fall of the British Empire, the many ...
The Duke of Edinburgh has encountered the world’s oldest living land animal – Jonathan the 191-year-old giant tortoise. Edward crouched down to meet Jonathan as the tortoise stretched his neck ...
Harriet is one of the longest-lived known tortoises, behind Tu'i Malila, who died in 1966 at the age of 188 or 189; Jonathan, who remains alive at an age of 192, and possibly Adwaita, who died in 2006 at an estimated age of between 250 and 255 years.
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