When an aquarium in Japan closed for renovations, staff believe the sunfish fell ill from lack of an audience.
The world's loneliest fish has been given cardboard cutouts of people to help ease its boredom. Caretakers said the sunfish ...
The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, Japan, which is undergoing renovations, revealed in a post on X that its staff had to think out of the box to help one of its sunfish struggling with the change.
Within a few weeks of closing for renovation, their 30-plus kilogram ocean sunfish began exhibiting strange behavior.
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 ...
A picture posted by the aquarium shows the sunfish swimming in its tank, one of its eyes turned toward makeshift “people” made from cardboard cutout ... to keep its animals used to human ...