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 facility closed for renovations.

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.

Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.

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 challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish was ...

The fish stopped eating after the aquarium closed for renovations in December 2024. Read more at straitstimes.com.

To test the theory, aquarium staff decided to attach large cut-out photos of human faces to a row of uniforms along the side ...

"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 ...

In a photo posted by the Kaikyokan aquarium in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture ... Sunfish, found in every ocean in the world, are a delicacy in Japan. They are believed to be able to live up to 10 ...

Fish have feelings too – at least if a lonesome sunfish in a Japanese aquarium is anything to go by. Animal caretakers at the ...

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