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When a four-year-old boy won a tiny goldfish at a fairground, no one expected it to live for very long, the Daily Mail reported. But Paul Palmer is now 28 years old, and the one-inch tiddler he brought home from Newcastle's Hoppings fair is still alive and well.

Sharky has just celebrated his 24th birthday.

What's more, one goldfish year is equal to five human years, meaning Sharky has been around for the equivalent of a century.

Palmer said: "He's had a charmed life because mum actually put him down the toilet once thinking he was dead but he swam back up the U-bend."

（点击英国《每日邮报》网站查看原文）

长寿金鱼存活24年

       据英国《每日邮报》报道，一个小男孩4岁时在游乐场赢了一只小金鱼，谁都未曾料想它会活很久；可是这个小男孩保罗•帕默今年已经28岁了，他从纽卡斯尔游乐会上带回家的仅1英寸长的小金鱼却依然活着，而且很健康。

       小金鱼鲨奇刚刚庆祝了24岁生日。

       金鱼1年寿命相等于人类5年，换言之，鲨奇目前已是百岁高龄了。

       帕默称：“他一定是冥冥中有神保佑，有一次我妈妈以为它死掉了，把它冲下马桶，但是，它竟然从U型管里游了回来。”

(China.org.cn June 26, 2012)