01-28-2023, 08:57 AM
(01-27-2023, 12:58 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Been looking at wikipedia articles.
It is thought that, at a minimum, a Greenland shark can reach an age of 250 years, possibly 4-5 centuries.
I don't know, as a cold blooded animal, in the Arctic Ocean I have to wonder if this fish has a very low metabolism.
It is thought that one mammal, the bowhead whale, can reach two centuries.
There has been postulated that every warm-blooded animal has roughly the same number of heartbeats over its lifespan. Small birds have short lives but very high heart rates. Dogs and cats are in the medium range in both heartrate and lifespan. We're in the same class with parrots: slow hearts and longish lives. I'm certain that this "rule" is imperfect, but it does provide some guidance.
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