historical photographs

muqawwee123 · August 28, 2012, 3:11pm

Re: historical photographs

http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/jonathan-the-tortoise-2-tm.jpg?w=350&h=350

a recently discovered photo of a tortoise named Jonathan is not very exciting. However, when the photo shown above was found, it backed up the claim that Jonathan is the oldest living animal on earth. Jonathan was brought to the small island of St Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean in 1882 along with three other tortoises when they were 50 years old. The photograph above was taken around 1900 and was recently discovered as part of a collection of Boer War images. It shows Jonathan, eating some grass with a Boer War prisoner and guard next to him. Jonathan was about 70 years old when this picture was taken which makes Jonathan approximately 177 years old. I know many will ask (like me) how they know for sure that Jonathan was already 50 years old when he came to the island. Others may ask how they are sure that the photo of the tortoise is really Jonathan. The truth is, I’m not sure.

I found this information from several different sources so I decided to give good ol’ Jonathan the benefit of the doubt.

No we won’t ask any of these questions