| 簡介：你知道最長壽的動物可以活多久嗎？答案絕對叫你嘆為觀止！
Ageing Secrets of
Animals
Would you believe me if I told you
that there's an animal that has been alive since the last
Ice Age? What if I said that an animal found by Charles
Darwin is still living today? Don't laugh; I'm telling the
truth.
There are many animals on our planet
that live longer than humans. Take bowhead whales for example.
Scientists say that they can live more than 175 years. Giant
tortoises can also live that long. When Darwin visited the
Galapagos Islands in 1835, he brought a tortoise back with
him. It ended up in an Australian zoo, where it still lives
today.
動物生命的奧秘
如果我告訴你，有隻動物從上個冰河期活到現在，你會相信嗎？如果我說查爾斯．達爾文發現的一隻動物至今還活著呢？別笑；我說的可是實話。
我們的星球上有許多動物活得比人類久。以弓頭鯨為例。科學家說牠們可活超過一百七十五年。象龜也可以活那麼久。當達爾文在一八三五年造訪加拉巴哥群島時，他帶回一隻烏龜。牠最後落腳在一間澳洲動物園，而牠現在仍在那裡生活。  |
