Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, Japan struggled to figure out what exactly was ailing its resident sunfish until they used cardboard cutouts of visitors to keep the lone fish company.

For the penguins and otters at Japan’s Hakone-en Aquarium, an hour’s drive southwest of Tokyo, inflation and rising prices have meant a change in diet – and the animals are not happy about it.

TOKYO, JAPAN - NOVEMBER 11: Spotted garden eels sway in the currents at Sumida Aquarium on November 11, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. A small species of eel has become something of a craze in Japan ...

Japan's lonely sunfish heartened by fake cut-outs of human onlookers 00:40. A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank ...

Lonely sunfish in Japanese aquarium finds comfort through human cutouts. As they tried to fathom the reason, the staff came up with a rather unorthodox theory: the fish might be lonely.

(CNN) — 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 ...

Japanese aquarium staff used cut-out human companions to cheer up a lonely sunfish, leading to improved health. Tuesday, Jun 24, 2025. New Delhi o C. Subscribe. Sign in. My Account. Subscribe.

An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish who stopped eating after ...

Another Japanese aquarium came up with a similarly creative solution to keep its animals used to human interaction. During the Covid lockdown in 2020, ...

Japanese aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish with cardboard cutouts of people. By CNN Newsource. Published January 20, 2025 5:04 AM . By ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Another Japanese aquarium came up with a similarly creative solution to keep its animals used to human interaction. During the Covid lockdown in 2020, ...