A six-year-old boy who is besotted with fish wrote to an ocean aquarium after noticing some sea life had disappeared, and surprisingly received a well-illustrated handwritten letter back and an invitation.
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Tao Tianxing has been a huge fan of the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium since the age of two.
He does not know many Chinese characters, but already knows more than 800 species of fish and has drawn tens of thousands of sea life in his sketchbook.
In January, he noticed that several fish had gone missing from the aquarium. His mother, surnamed Xu, said he was deeply bothered by it.
She suggested that he write a letter to the aquarium.
The parents wrote down his questions, which were illustrated with Tao’s drawings of the fish.
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To the family’s surprise, in February, they received a letter back from the institution.