The world's shortest life expectancy of 10 animals, the shortest only 5 minutes of life

Do you know what is the longest-lived animal in the world? Some people may answer the tortoise. The answer is not true. To compare who lives the longest, the turtle is certainly no match for the Greenland shark. Because the average life expectancy of Greenland sharks is 400 years! It's worth mentioning that they are looking for a date with someone over 150 years old. The longest-living Greenland shark is known to have lived 512 years. 512 years ago, China was still the Ming Dynasty ......

However, what we are going to talk about today is the world's shortest-lived animal. There is an old Chinese saying, "Summer bugs cannot talk about ice", that is, some bugs in summer have too short a life span to live until winter, and it is meaningless to talk to them about ice, metaphorically speaking, a person is caught up in seeing and seeing short. However, there are some animals, not to mention living from summer to winter, they even live to the next day is very difficult. Below, we will learn about the more representative, ultra-short-lived animals: 10.

10. Chameleon (5 years)

Chameleons are fascinating animals with impeccable camouflage skills, unfortunately, they are among the shortest-lived reptiles on the planet. As of 2015, 202 species of chameleons have been discovered. They can change color to adapt to their environment. On average, they live up to five years.

Their lifespan also depends on the parasitic load they contain. Most chameleons experience an early death because they have an excessive build-up of parasites in their bodies. These parasites can cause stress and dehydration, which reduces their life expectancy. If someone has them as pets, be careful, without enough experience or knowledge of keeping them, they are likely to die quickly.

9. Mosquito fish (1.5 years)

The mosquito fish is a freshwater fish that can reach up to 7 cm for females and 4 cm for males. As the name implies, this fish's diet consists mainly of mosquito larvae. Mosquito fish can generally live for 1.5 years, and no more than 3 years at most. They mostly live in shallow waters and are often protected by larger fish. Mosquitofish are widely distributed in the southern states of Illinois and Indiana in the United States, running through the Mississippi River. The time from birth and development to sexual maturity is also short for mosquitofish, taking 60 days for males and 30 days for females. Finally, males have a much shorter life span compared to females.

8. House mouse (8 months)

The house mouse is the most common animal on earth. As many as 30 species of house mice have been discovered to date, and certain species are kept as pets by humans. The most significant factor affecting house mice is extreme weather, too cold or too hot, which can shorten their life span. And since their life span is already short and they have to face attacks from house cats or humans, they don't live long. According to research, house mice can survive for three years in a very stable and maintained external environment. The longest-lived mouse to date was a genetically modified house mouse that lived 1819 days.

7. Monarch butterfly (6 months)

Monarch butterflies are indeed very beautiful to look at, but they only live for six months. Although they have a very short life span, monarch butterflies also have to migrate, flying thousands of miles at a time. The summer will end, and after spending a short period in North America, they will fly to Mexico where they will spend the rest of their lives.

6. Dragonflies (4 months)

Dragonflies appeared on Earth about 300 million years ago. We can see this insect in most green spaces and more than 5,000 species of dragonflies have been discovered so far. They are considered to be one of the shortest-lived animals on Earth, with a lifespan of only 4 months. Usually, they either lie dead on the ground or are captured by their natural predators. They live almost half of their life span in the larval stage, but once mature, they do not live too long due to many external factors.

5. Worker bees (8 weeks)

Worker bees are female bees that cannot completely reproduce. They can survive anywhere from a few weeks to a few months, with the length of life varying with external weather conditions, with an average life span of 8 weeks. Many worker bees are born in the fall and die the following spring. However, this is not the case with queen bees, many of which can live up to 5 years.

4. House flies (4 weeks)

House flies, almost like a human "symbiont", evolved with humans and are said to have originated in the Middle East. A housefly can only live for a maximum of four weeks. However, they are extremely fertile, and a single female can lay more than 100 eggs at a time on food or organic waste. In total, a female housefly can lay around 500 eggs in her short lifetime. It is this superb ability to reproduce that has allowed them to follow humans around the world.

3. Ants (3 weeks)

To date, there are more than 12,500 species of ants on Earth, believed to have evolved from a wasp-like insect 99 million years ago. Ants are found on almost every continent except Antarctica. The shortest-lived ants in existence live for only three weeks. But the lifespan of the king ants is so different that some live for years, with the longest living up to 30 years.

2. Gastropods (3 days)

Gastropods are tiny worm-like animals found in freshwater and marine areas. These animals are about 3 mm long and live for only 3 days. They usually feed on organisms. In addition, they have a simple body structure with only a head, brain, intestines, reproductive organs, and sensory organs.

To reproduce, this animal produces a special tube-like structure, equivalent to their eggs, which they attach to other organisms while reproducing. These eggs will hatch in less than four days under perfect environmental conditions. It is often thought that they are even able to survive in dry ponds and stagnant areas outside of their freshwater habitat.

1. Mayflies (24 hours)

So far, mayflies are considered to be the shortest-lived animals on Earth, with a lifespan of only 24 hours. This insect belongs to the category of aquatic animals. The immature life form of the mayfly is produced in almost completely clean fresh water. There are about 3,000 species of mayflies on the planet, and they live between 30 minutes and a day.

Scientists even believe that the main purpose of the existence of this life is to reproduce, which is very shocking. This is because some species of mayflies are born and die before they have a chance to take a few bites of food ...... In addition, the American Doraena is considered to be the shortest-lived type of mayfly, with a lifespan of only 5 minutes.