Jelly Babies can live for up to 14 years, and are ready to leave their parents and forage for themselves at Thirteen. In this one year they call their own, the average Jelly Baby will find a burger joint and start eating. Unfortunately, due to the period of time Jelly Babies are independent from their parents is less than the time needed to reproduce, Jelly Babies are expected to be extinct by 2014. Jelly Babies are not the slow moving, dull creatures you would assume them to be. When fully grown, they are smarter than John Kerry and faster than a Giraffe.