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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.

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.

A Japanese aquarium closed during the coronavirus outbreak is asking people to make video calls to the facility’s eels so the sensitive creatures remember humans exist and don’t pose a threat.

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 ...

Dolphins at a Japanese marine park are going on a low fat diet after developing pot bellies and failing to look sharp in their aquatic performances.

A great white shark captured by a Japanese aquarium died Friday after just three days in captivity, the aquarium announced. "We are going to announce termination of [the] Great White Shark exhibition.

Penguins at a zoo in Japan have been caught on camera turning their beaks up at the cheaper fish being offered to them.. The Hakone-en Aquarium, home to over 30,000 individual animals, began ...

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

An aquarium employee waves a mackerel near a penguin – but there’s no reaction. When she moves the fish closer to its beak, the penguin turns away haughtily. An otter sniffs the fish, then ...