What is the oldest animals in captivity by species?
What are the oldest animals in zoos by species?
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What does that question mean? The species that have been in captivity the longest? The oldest individual animals? What species live the longest?
Like for example what is the oldest individual polar bear in captivity
For anybody interested in species longevity records, the book Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; From the Living Collections of the World; (Richard Weigl; 2005) is thoroughly recommmended.
Are we talking like oldest living or are we looking at longevity records?
Both
Bengal Tiger
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Lonesome George was the only one of his kind in captivity (afaik), so he must’ve been the oldest.