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The only other species other than humans that has as long post-reproductive lives.

• card_zero 1y ago
  I guess we don't have data for Greenland sharks.
  • barrenko 1y ago
    thank god.
• knome 1y ago
  This is not correct in the least. As one of many, many examples, a galapagos turtle reaches sexual maturity at 20 to 25 years of age, and lives 100 to 200 years.
  • IAmBroom 1y ago
    I think barrenko meant "lives after reproductive ability ends", and AFAIK Galapagos tortoises can reproduce at those ages. Certainly the males can, but so can 80yo human males.
    • barrenko 1y ago
      Something like that, I take full fault.
• calmbonsai 1y ago
  Perhaps, what you mean, are the only other social mammals with K-population selection reproductive strategy? FWIW, elephants also fall into this category. It’s theorized that “grandparents” are important cultural archives. Both orcas and elephants are also matriarchal.
• glitchc 1y ago
  Perhaps you mean among mammalian species? Reptiles can live long lives and experience multiple reproductive cycles. Alligators technically live forever.