The lifespan differs from animal to animal. Animals living under natural conditions rarely approach their maximum possible age because of very high death rates due to infant mortality, diseases, predators, bad weather, habitat destruction, or competition for food and shelter. Find out more!

Macaws – Macaws are long tailed, often colorful parrots. There are total of 19 species of macaws found on the earth including extinct and critically endangered species. They can live up to 60 to 80 years, while there breeding age ranges from 30 to 35 years. Mini macaws have lifespan at the lower end, while a large in size with good nutrition can easily live for a age more than 50 years.

African elephants – The largest surviving land-animals have an average lifespan of 70 years and a recent Zimbabwean study has found that female African elephants can potentially remain fertile until their death!

Galapagos Giant Tortoise – The biggest living types of tortoise that can survive well past a hundred, with the most established recorded at 152. The most well known Galapagos Tortoise was ‘Bereft George’, a sub species who lived on the Islands, he was 100 years of age and still classed as a youthful grown-up!

Eels – Eels have an average lifespan of 150 years. Do you know eels lay about more than 4 millions eggs in their whole life.

Tuatara – The normal life expectancy is around 150 years, yet they can live to be well more than 200 years of age.

Greenland shark – It has the longest known life expectancy of every single vertebrate specie which is not less than 274 years and is among the biggest surviving types of shark.