Sunfish that got sick after aquarium closed has recovered — thanks to human cutouts
A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations.
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Japanese Aquarium Puts Cutouts Of People To Comfort Lonely Sunfish
The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki is home to the ocean sunfish. An aquarium in Japan has come up with a unique and out-of-the-box idea to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish after the ...
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Japanese aquarium comforts lonely Sunfish with photos of human faces
To test the theory, aquarium staff decided to attach large cut-out photos of human faces to a row of uniforms along the side ...
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'World's loneliest fish' given cardboard friends to keep it company
Renovation work at the Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, Japan, left one resident depressed in December. A sunfish suddenly stopped eating and exhibited strange behavior. This was apparently ...
Lonely Sunfish at Japanese Aquarium Comforted by Staff in Clever & Sweet Way
"When an aquarium in Japan closed to the public for restorations, the aquarium's beloved sunfish grew lonely without visitors and lost its appetite — until aquarium staff pasted cutouts with photos of ...
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Sunfish that got sick after aquarium closed has recovered — thanks to human cutouts
southern Japan Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Kaikyokan via AP) In this photo released by Shimonoseki Marine Science Museum "Kaikyokan," a sunfish swims near cardboard cutouts of people in uniforms at ...
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Lonely Fish Cheered Up By Fake Visitors
The Shimonoseki City Aquarium in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture needed to undergo renovations, and temporarily closed to the public in December, 2024. Staff said the aquarium's sunfish lost his appetite ...
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Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends
Staff members believe the sunfish stopped eating when the aquarium was temporarily closed because it was lonely.
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‘Lonely’ Sunfish Comforted by Cardboard Cutouts of People After Aquarium Closes Due to Renovations
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.
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A sunfish in Japan got sick when its aquarium closed. Human cutouts helped it recover.
A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite ... an aquarist at the Kaikyokan aquarium in Shimonoseki. The large sunfish arrived at the aquarium in February 2024 ...
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