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The only surviving giant panda triplets on-record have celebrated their first birthday.
The triplets are fit, each weighing around 30 kilograms.
A manager of the park in southern China's Guangzhou, which is home to the cubs, says the three are now starting to become more independent.
The triplets are more energetic and no longer stick together. They have begun trying to stand up, and run up and down a lot.
The cubs are also starting to lose their baby teeth, meaning they're set to begin eating bamboo shoots and leaves.
The birth and survival of the triplets a year ago was unprecedented.
There have only been 4 recorded cases of giant pandas having triplets.
This is NEWS Plus Special English.
More than 10 rare cowfish have been spotted at a section of the Yangtze River.
Local fisheries authorities say several fishermen in a township in Yichang City of central China's Hubei Province spotted the fish in the Yangtze River.
According to the fishermen, it is very rare to see so many cowfish at the same time and the last time they saw it was more than a decade ago.
Cowfish, listed under state second-level protection, live mainly in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Dongting Lake and the Poyang Lake.
The total population of the species is only around 1,000.
