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 ...

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 ...

Recently, something quite unusual happened at Japan's Kaikyokan Aquarium when one of its sunfish began acting up and the aquarium staff realised that its health problem was due to loneliness.

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.

An aquarium in Japan has come up with a creative solution to cheer up a “lonely” sunfish who is missing humans during the venue's closure for refurbishment. Staff at the Kaikyokan aquarium in ...

Some shared photos and videos of they had taken of the sunfish on previous visits, and others promised to go and see it when the aquarium reopened. This is not the first time a Japanese aquarium ...

The staff at an aquarium in Japan faced a unique problem with their fishes and came up with a bizarre solution for it. The aquarium staff at the Kaikyokan noticed that their solitary sunfish had ...