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Wisdom (officially designated #Z333) is a wild female Laysan albatross, the oldest confirmed wild bird in the world and the oldest banded bird in the world. [1] First tagged in 1956 at Midway Atoll by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), she was still incubating eggs as late as 2024 and has received international media coverage in her lifetime.
Jeanne Calment, a French woman, lived to the age of 122 years, 164 days, making her the oldest fully documented human who has ever lived. She died on August 4, 1997. [111] Jiroemon Kimura (†116 years, 54 days), a Japanese man, died on 12 June 2013. He holds the record for the oldest ever male human.
He was one of the longest-lived birds on record [4] and was recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest living parrot in the world. [5] The next-oldest pink cockatoo to be found in a zoological setting was a 31-year-old female bird located at Paradise Wildlife Sanctuary, England. [3]
Despite having a six-foot wingspan, its actually on the smaller side for an albatross, and is famous for being the species that boasts the world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, who has been ...
The world's oldest known wild bird may soon be a mom again! The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) on Tuesday, Dec. 3, that Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan ...
The 74-year-old albatross, named Wisdom, is expected to welcome a new chick next year.
Since the death of Trudy on 24 July 2019, she became the oldest living gorilla in the world. [2] [3] On 25 July 2020 she surpassed Trudy's final age of 63 years, 204 days and became the oldest gorilla ever. After the death of Helen, on 14 October 2022, Fatou became the last surviving gorilla born in the 1950s.
Her last offspring hatched in 2021.