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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."

（點擊英國《每日郵報》網站查看原文）

長壽金魚存活24年

?????? 據英國《每日郵報》報道，一個小男孩4歲時在游樂場贏了一只小金魚，誰都未曾料想它會活很久；可是這個小男孩保羅?帕默今年已經28歲了，他從紐卡斯爾游樂會上帶回家的僅1英寸長的小金魚卻依然活著，而且很健康。

?????? 小金魚鯊奇剛剛慶祝了24歲生日。

?????? 金魚1年壽命相等于人類5年，換言之，鯊奇目前已是百歲高齡了。

?????? 帕默稱：“他一定是冥冥中有神保佑，有一次我媽媽以為它死掉了，把它沖下馬桶，但是，它竟然從U型管里游了回來。”

(China.org.cn June 26, 2012)