Most Japanese encounter sunfish ... “Here is an urgent request,” the aquarium wrote. “Could you show your face to our garden eels from your home?” it said.

"When an aquarium in Japan closed to the public for restorations, the aquarium's beloved sunfish grew lonely without visitors ...

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 ailing. Almost as soon as the ...

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 ...

Japanese aquarium uncovers loneliness as cause of ... The aquarium even issued a public request asking people to show their faces to the eels from home. This new technology was witnessed and ...

The staff at an aquarium in Japan faced a unique problem with their ... “Here is an urgent request,” the aquarium wrote. “Could you show your face to our garden eels from your home?” ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations.

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 ...