An investigation by Guinness World Records has decided a canine in Portugal that died final October was not the oldest canine ever on report.
Bobi, a canine that had belonged to Leonel Costa of Conqueiros, Portugal, had been declared the oldest canine alive and the oldest canine ever in February 2023 earlier than dying, allegedly at age 31.
Purportedly born on May 11, 1992, Bobi had outlasted Bluey, an Australian cattle canine that had lived from 1910 to 1939.
Bobi was registered with a Portuguese nationwide pet database in 2022 as having been born in 1992, key to his preliminary case for holding the age report.
But when Bobi was microchipped for the nationwide database, authorities didn’t require proof of his age, as he was purportedly born earlier than 2008.
“Central to Bobi’s evidence was microchip data sourced from the Portuguese government database … With the additional veterinary statement provided as evidence for Bobi’s age also citing this microchip data, we’re left with no conclusive evidence which can definitively prove Bobi’s date of birth,” Guinness World Records defined in a launch Thursday.
An official with the Portuguese database, Eurico Cabral, instructed Wired in December 2023, “At the time, the animal’s holder declared that it had been born in 1992, but we have no registration or data that can confirm or deny this statement.”
Mr. Costa beforehand known as questions over the legitimacy of Bobi’s report “unfounded,” in keeping with the BBC.
Experts who doubted Bobi’s age mentioned {that a} canine residing that lengthy can be akin to a person residing for 2 centuries.
“This is the equivalent of a human living to over 200 years old which, given our current medical capabilities, is completely implausible. … no concrete evidence has been provided to prove his age,” veterinarian Danny Chambers with the U.Okay.’s Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons instructed the Guardian.
