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.
Inside Edition7h
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 ...
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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
A Sunfish Got ‘Lonely’ When Its Aquarium Closed for Renovations. Then, Staff Found a Creative Way to Cheer It Up
The solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...
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 ...
Japan aquarium cheers up 'lonely' sunfish with staff uniforms, portraits on tank
A sunfish at a municipal aquarium undergoing renovation in this west Japan city became unwell, but recovered after its tank ...
Lonesome sunfish in Japan aquarium finds comfort in cardboard faces
SHIMONOSEKI: A lonely ocean sunfish in a Japanese aquarium, which seemed to be missing its human visitors and caretakers ...
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 ...
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.
Latest on SAYS5d
"Maybe It Became Lonely" — Aquarium Staff In Japan Comforts Sunfish With Smiley Cutouts
The Japanese aquarium posted a photo on its official X (formerly Twitter) account on 3 January, showing the sunfish named ...
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 ...
Japan aquarium uses human cutouts to cheer up solitary fish: ‘He’s lonely without visitors'
Japanese aquarium staff used cut-out human companions to cheer up a lonely sunfish, leading to improved health.