• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    I just looked it up and your average slug lives for about six years, so even at slug speed that’s quite a lot of damage that slug could do.

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        3 days ago

        Most animals live longer than seems reasonable. There a spider that lives in the corner of my garden shed and it still there after five years.

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          3 days ago

          Herring gulls in extreme cases can live into their 30s. There’s probably a haggard old gull somewhere which remembers the '90s.

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          3 days ago

          Some tarantula species can live up to +20 years old, I have read even claims of +30.

          Also big parrots might be able to live up to +80, though the exact numbers are unconfirmed for parrots, as they are living longer and longer in captivity, as our knowledge on how to keep them well gets better and better.