Japanese aquarium places cardboard cutouts of people near tank of singular sunfish to cure its loneliness
Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.
Japanese Aquarium Puts Cutouts Of People To Comfort Lonely 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 facility closed for renovations.
Japanese aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish with cardboard cutouts of people
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 ...
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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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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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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‘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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Lonely sunfish in Japan gets cardboard human friends
A sociable sunfish who was reportedly missing its human audience during a temporary closure of its aquarium in Japan has been comforted in an unorthodox way. In a photo posted by the aquarium in ...
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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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 aquarium cheered up by human photos, staff uniforms
Fish have feelings too – at least if a lonesome sunfish in a Japanese aquarium is anything to go by. Animal caretakers at the ...
Temporarily closed aquarium finds solution for lonely, ailing sunfish
An aquarium in Japan closed Dec. 1 for renovation work, much to the apparent dismay of a lone sunfish. It missed people and ...