World's oldest recorded tortoise Jonathan prepares for 190th

LONDON: He was born not long after Napoleon died, and is now officially the planet’s oldest known living land animal. Jonathan the Seychelles Giant Tortoise is celebrating his 190th birthday — more or less — on St. Helena in the remote South Atlantic, where the defeated French emperor died in exile in 1821. Jonathan, it is believed based on shell measurements, was hatched

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