{"id":1438,"date":"2010-09-14T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T17:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:19","slug":"a-long-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/a-long-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos tortoises are one of the longest living animals, some reaching over 150 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The record holder for the longest tortoise life goes to&#8230; a Madagascar Radiated Tortoise (<em>Geochelone radiata<\/em><em>)<\/em> who was given to the Tongan royal family by Captain Cook in the late 1700\u2019s and lived to the ripe old age of 188!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10978\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10978 \" title=\"radiated tortoise madagascar\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest_animal_radiated_tortosie_madagascar.jpeg\" alt=\"radiated tortoise Madagascar\" width=\"415\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest_animal_radiated_tortosie_madagascar.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest_animal_radiated_tortosie_madagascar-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest_animal_radiated_tortosie_madagascar-696x928.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest_animal_radiated_tortosie_madagascar-315x420.jpeg 315w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest_animal_radiated_tortosie_madagascar-630x840.jpeg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radiated tortoise Madagascar. Flickr Credit: Teague O&#39;Mara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/Animals\/AnimalRecords\/default.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/Animals\/AnimalRecords\/default.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tortoises have some of the longest lifespans in the world. Check out how old one Galapagos tortoise lived to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[122,121,120,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-1438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-galapagos","11":"tag-oldest","12":"tag-record-breaker","13":"tag-tortoise"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}