Are You Telling Me To Exercise?

Everyone says exercise like walking, jogging, swimming or cycling is good for your health.

The tiny reef fish known as pygmy goby swims all day and yet its lifespan is only about 59 days, making it the vertebrate animal with the shortest lifespan of any vertebrate animal.

A pygmy goby

A rabbit runs and hops and only lives 9-12 years.

A tortoise doesn’t run, does nothing ..yet can have a lengthy life span. The oldest tortoise ever recorded was Tu’i Malila, which was presented to the Tongan royal family by the British explorer Captain Cook shortly after its birth in 1777. Tui Malila remained in the care of the Tongan royal family until its death by natural causes on May 19, 1965. This means that upon its death, Tui Malila was 188 years old.

A very old tortoise

And you are telling me to exercise??