How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real ...
When a sunfish started acting strange at an aquarium in Japan, the staff thought it had fallen ill. However, there was a ...
Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.
Japanese aquarium staff used cut-out human companions to cheer up a lonely sunfish, leading to improved health.
"When an aquarium in Japan closed to the public for restorations, the aquarium's beloved sunfish grew lonely without visitors ...
A popular sunfish in Japan lost its appetite and banged on the side of its tank after the aquarium it lived in closed for ...
Fish have feelings too – at least if a lonesome sunfish in a Japanese aquarium is anything to go by. Animal caretakers at the ...
A sunfish at a municipal aquarium undergoing renovation in this west Japan city became unwell, but recovered after its tank ...
Staff had noticed that the sunfish was showing signs of distress after the aquarium was closed for refurbishment ...
To create the illusion of people observing the fish, the staff members printed cardboard cut-outs of visitors wearing clothes ...
An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish, who stopped eating after the building closed to real-life visitors. Kaikyokan Aquarium in ...