--- title: Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The loudest animal is not a lion but a sperm whale clicking in the deep sea, and one of the noisiest is a shrimp no lon --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Record-breakers: the loudest and the l… # Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived Lesson 187 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/0/) — The loudest animal is not a lion but a sperm whale clicking in the deep sea, and one of the noisiest is a shrimp no longer than your finger that snaps its claw with a bang like a cap gun. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/1/) — Some animals and plants live astonishingly long: a clam from Iceland lived about five hundred years, older than Shakespeare, and bristlecone pines on a California mountain have been growing for nearly five thousand years. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/2/) — Scientists find these ages by counting rings, like the rings in a tree stump or on a clam's shell, one ring for each year of growth. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/3/) — As a rule small, fast-living animals such as mice live only a few years and big, slow ones live long, but there are surprises, like a little rodent that lives over thirty years and a jellyfish that can turn young again. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/4/) — The sperm whale makes the loudest sound of any animal; its clicks are made in its huge head, focused like a beam, and could hurt a diver very close by. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/5/) — The pistol shrimp snaps its claw so fast that a bubble forms and bursts with a loud crack that stuns small fish, and for an instant the bubble is nearly as hot as the surface of the Sun. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/6/) — Cicadas are among the loudest insects; males click drum-like plates on their bodies, and some American cicadas spend thirteen or seventeen years underground before coming out together. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/7/) — A clam from Iceland named Ming lived about five hundred and seven years, worked out by counting the growth rings on its shell. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/8/) — Bristlecone pines grow very slowly in harsh mountain places and can live for nearly five thousand years; one called Methuselah is over four thousand years old. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/9/) — The immortal jellyfish can turn back into a young polyp (a tiny baby stage stuck to a rock) when it is hurt or old, so in theory it could go on forever, though most are eaten. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/10/) — Some deep-sea glass sponges, with skeletons of glass-like material, may live for thousands of years in the cold, slow-growing deep. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/11/) — Jonathan, a giant tortoise on St Helena who hatched around 1832, is thought to be the oldest known living land animal. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/12/) — Big parrots such as macaws and cockatoos can live over sixty years, so a pet parrot may outlive its owner. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/13/) — Small animals such as mice use energy fast, have many young quickly and live only a few years, but the naked mole-rat lives over thirty years. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/14/) — The coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks, one of the shortest lives of any animal with a backbone, and some adult mayflies live only a few hours. - ← previous: [Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/) - next →: [Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)