WORLDS OLDEST TURTLE

THE OLDEST ANIMAL ON THE PLANET IS A 176-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE NAMED JONATHAN:

Now it's time for today's "Random Animal Fact". --There's a 176-year-old tortoise named Jonathan that lives on St. Helena Island (--which is in the South Atlantic Ocean, several hundred miles off Africa's western coast).

According to animal experts, that makes Jonathan the OLDEST known animal . . . in the world. (--Pretty cool, right? But get this . . . despite Jonathan's old age, locals say he still has enough energy to regularly flirt with three younger female tortoises. 'Atta boy, Jonathan!) (Daily Telegraph)

(--Check out some pictures of Jonathan, one from around 1900 and one from the present. . .)