about how long can dolphins live if they are just fine throughout their life?
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How long do dolphins actually live? \n\nIt depends on which species you are talking about. Bottlenose dolphins may live for 50 years, but most only live for 25 years.
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The lifespan of a Common Garter Snake is difficult to determine. Several studies have been conducted to determine the average life of a Common Garter Snake in the wild. Unfortunately the studies do not agree on the life span, but the average has been determined to be approximately two years
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There are lots of different types of stars, all with different 'lifespans'. Ours is about 4.5 Billion years old and should 'live' to the ripe old age of about 10 Billion years old.
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the life span of a walrus is about 32 years
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By and large, trees don't have absolute lifespans, as animals do. \n\nAccording to The Straight Dope, the most striking illustration of this is the bristlecone pine, Pinus aristata. A 1948 field guide noted that bristlecones reached maturity in 200-250 years, with "extreme ages of 300-375 years." Yet only 10 years later a researcher discovered a stand of bristlecones whose average age exceeded 4,000 years and in one case 4,600 years.\n\nOther examples are less dramatic but still instructive. Red maples live 80-250 years, American chestnuts 100-300, white oaks 300-600, bald cypress 600-1,200. These extremely broad ranges suggest that assigning a "life span" to trees is merely a statistical convenience rather than a reflection of an inherent limit. It would not be surprising (to me, anyway) if much older examples of these species were found.
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Dolphins -\nThey are intelligent and communicate, they have sex for fun, and they live free and peacefully.
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They can live for 50 years.  These links will help answer all your other questions:\nhttp://www.aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/wb/Article?id=ar303960&sc=-1\nhttp://www.nature.ca/notebooks/English/komodo.htm\nhttp://www.honoluluzoo.org/komodo_dragon.htm
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In captivity they live for about 30 years, and in the wild, average lifespan for a crow is 7-8 years.
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A BBC news article based upon University studies explains:\n\nSecrets of womens longer lives (Thursday, 19 September, 2002, 17:57 GMT 18:57 UK)\n\nWomen on average live at least five years more than men - Men may have shorter lives than women because they are naturally less able to fight off bacterial infections, suggests research. This key difference appears to exist in many types of animals, including many mammals, according to a study carried out at the University of Stirling. \n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2268641.stm
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It depends on the kind of dolphin you're talking about. \n\nThe most commonly thought-of kinds of dolphins, which look a lot like porpoises, are air-breathing mammals. They are typically 5 to 8 feet long.\n\nBut there is also a dolphin fish, also called a pompano or mahi-mahi, which is a true fish and not a mammal.  Dolphin fish are brightly colored, have large heads, and are typically two to three feet long. These are the kind of dolphins seen on the insignia of US Navy submariners.
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There is 1 baby female living at Sea World San Diego, but I don't know if she's visible to the public. This little 7 footer currently has the record for surviving in captivity - 54 days as of 11/7/2006.\n\nGreat Whites don't survive after they're captured, and scientists are trying to figure out why. The previous record was 16 days back in August 1981.\n\nFor some reason, after about 10 days sharks stop eating, start swimming erratically, bumping off of walls, and eventually sink to the bottom of the holding tank, where they drown. If a shark doesn't keep water over its gills, it doesn't get any oxygen and dies.\n\nLots of things have proven to be involved - great whites can detect as little as 0.01 volts of electricity in the water. This transient voltage interferes with their guidance or feeding instincts and they batter themselves against the cage trying to get to the source of the signal. \n\nThe facility in San Diego has no electronics of any kind directly mounted on or near the tank. The tank is also significantly bigger than previous efforts: 1,000,000+ gallons. The researchers also took several days to acclimate the young shark in a fenced off area of the ocean, gradually reducing the size until it was the same size as its million gallon intended home.\n\nDespite years of research, very little is actually known about Great Whites. How deep they can go? What are their reproductive habits? How often do they give birth? Why are their movement patterns over a lifetime? All of these questions are still mysteries.\n\nGive it a few years. Once we get answers to some of the basic questions, we might be able to keep them in captivity. Hopefully we'll be able to not only learn from them, but protect them so our children and grandchildren can enjoy them, too.\n\nHope that answers your question,\nOdd
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In the wild, a gorilla can live up to 50 years or so. In captivity, about 54 years. Koko will probably live longer because she can communicate any health problems she may have.
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Black-footed ferrets have been known to live up to 12 years in captivity.As far as out in the wild where they belong, there isn't much known about them, and currently since they are on the endangered list, there is captive breeding going on to introduce them back into the wild.\nAs far as the domestic ferret is concerned, lifespan is variable anywhere from 6 years and up.  All the yrs I have been an owner, the longest I had one was 10 years but I have heard of some though rare reaching 12.
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Dolphins don't live in just tropical marine waters. Dolphins live in colder temperatures too, as well as freshwater.\n\nKiller whales (yes, they are dolphins) live in cold waters, as well as warmer waters.\n\nChinese river dolphins live in fresh water.
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Either a slick shark or a dolphin. Sharks are amazing creatures which live for hundreds of years and dolphins are just awesome
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Unless they are in frozen state for long periods. As in long distance travel. They will not age.
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Some can live up to a month, but some only live a matter of hours or days.