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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.

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 ...

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 ...

(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.

After the aquarium shut for renovation in December, the sunfish stopped eating jellyfish and started rubbing its body against the tank, the Mainichi Shimbun reported on Monday.

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, ...

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