WOW!!! This is a seriously old tortoise.

[Walking Man]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/oukoe_uk_australia_tortoise

 

[one45auto]

And to think the most we humans have made it to is 121. :grumpy:

 

[tallpaul]

And to think the most we humans have made it to is 121. :grumpy:

Not really - there were men in the Bible who made it over 500 years...

 

[Cougar Allen]

That's a mistranslation for lunar months (13 to a year).

 

[tarsier]

I don't know about these land tortoises, but the large sea turtles live a long time too - if they make it to adulthood. Most of them don't though. The beaches where they nest are seen as a huge smorgasbord by a lot of other critters. I would guess that the land tortoises have the same problem.