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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 ...
Aquarium tapes human cutouts to tank after lonely sunfish refuses to eat alone
A solitary sunfish has been brought back from the brink with the help of fake humans. The rare fish at an aquarium in ...
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See the Rare, 2,000-Pound Hoodwinker Sunfish That Washed Ashore in Oregon
Initially, researchers thought the huge creature spotted on Gearhart Beach was a common ocean sunfish (Mola mola). But they later realized they had something much more special on their hands ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Japanese aquarium cheers up lonely sunfish with cardboard cutouts of people
Ocean sunfish live in the open sea in temperate ... Tokyo’s Sumida Aquarium asked for volunteers to FaceTime its 300 spotted garden eels, who had become shy without the presence of visitors ...