Jean qui rit
Jean qui rit ( bl. March 25, 1852 ; † April 4, 1937 ) was called a Mississippi alligator whose upper teeth protruded so that it looked like he was laughing (hence the name 'Laughing John'). This mark made him unmistakable, so that he could always be clearly identified, and so his age of at least 85 years can be considered relatively well established.
The alligator was shipped from Louisiana to Paris along with a group of other specimens of its kind and bequeathed to the Jardin des Plantes there in March 1852 . Since there was otherwise no evidence of such an old age, the information was questioned. The age of at least 85 years had already been published in the Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle of 1937, as was his name (p. 176). The Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées had already mentioned an age of 73 in 1926.
literature
- Kent A. Vliet: Alligators. The Illustrated Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation , Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, p. 213.
supporting documents
- ↑ Kent A. Vliet: Alligators. The Illustrated Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation , Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020, p. 213.
- ^ Clifford Hillhouse Pope : The Reptile World. A Natural History of the Snakes, Lizards, Turtles, and Crocodilians , Knopf, 1960, p. 16; also Gerald L. Wood: Animal facts and feats. A Guinness record of the animal kingdom , Doubleday, 1972, p. 173.
- ↑ Revue générale des sciences pures et appliquées 37 (1926), p. 49.