{"id":1045,"date":"2022-10-03T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:06:05","slug":"exploring-time-lifespans-and-ancestry-what-organisms-live-the-longest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/exploring-time-lifespans-and-ancestry-what-organisms-live-the-longest\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Time, Lifespans, and Ancestry: What Organisms Live the Longest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Shortest and Longest Lifespans of Animals\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDkI68ItoYM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What is a &#8216;lifespan&#8217;? In Scientific terms, this means how long (on average) an organism can live. Some members of a species may live longer or shorter than the average lifespan. There are many factors that account for an individual animal&#8217;s lifespan including: illness, injury, predators, habitat loss, living in the wild versus captivity.<\/p>\n<p>In the video above, many different animal lifespans are explored (including where humans fall on the &#8216;list&#8217; of lifespans). As you watch the video, consider:<\/p>\n<p>-How long would you consider a &#8216;long&#8217; lifespan to be (ex: 50 years? 100 years?)<\/p>\n<p>-How many mammals have long lifespans? Reptiles? Insects? Fish?<\/p>\n<p>-Humans fall towards the middle of the lifespan chart (averaging around 70 years). Do you think our lifespan has always been the same (in the past and in the future)?<\/p>\n<p>-What can we learn from some of these ancient organisms? Why is it important to study them and protect them?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about the oldest terrestrial animal, check out the video below to &#8216;meet&#8217; Jonathon the Tortoise (190+ years old!):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet Jonathan, The Oldest Known Animal In The World\" width=\"863\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Si8KVIcDG1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a &#8216;lifespan&#8217;? In Scientific terms, this means how long (on average) an organism can live. Some members of a species may live longer or shorter than the average lifespan. There are many factors that account for an individual animal&#8217;s lifespan including: illness, injury, predators, habitat loss, living in the wild versus captivity. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/exploring-time-lifespans-and-ancestry-what-organisms-live-the-longest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploring Time, Lifespans, and Ancestry: What Organisms Live the Longest?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}