The world’s oldest living land animal - the Seychelles giant tortoise named Jonathan - has recently celebrated his 193rd birthday. He was basically born ~30 years before the US Civil War started.

Michael Parziale, called the Drone Ranger in Manasquan, New Jersey, flies search missions at night and has brought 122 lost animals home without charging the owners. At sixty-four he takes a fleet of eighteen drones, many with thermal cameras, over woods, fields, and streets. In two years the list has included dogs, cats, and one cow. A puppy named Shade had been gone twenty-seven hours. Parziale found him in forty-one minutes. The work runs through his nonprofit, Unmanned Search and Rescue Drone Team, which lives on donations so older and low-income owners are not asked to pay. He also trains military veterans to fly, a skill that can move into surveying, farms, photography, and inspection of roads and pipes. The count is 122 animals found and families who got a call instead of a search that never ended. The method is ordinary equipment used after dark by one person who decided missing pets were a job.