A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell ...
The Shimonoseki City Aquarium in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture needed to undergo renovations, and temporarily closed to the public in December, 2024. Staff said the aquarium's sunfish lost his appetite ...
Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.
The Japanese aquarium posted a photo on its official X (formerly Twitter) account on 3 January, showing the sunfish named ...
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'World's loneliest fish' given cardboard friends to keep it companyRenovation work at the Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, Japan, left one resident depressed in December. A sunfish suddenly ...
Staff members believe the sunfish stopped eating when the aquarium was temporarily closed because it was lonely.
Within a few weeks of closing for renovation, their 30-plus kilogram ocean sunfish began exhibiting strange behavior.
The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki is home to the ocean 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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A Sunfish Got ‘Lonely’ When Its Aquarium Closed for Renovations. Then, Staff Found a Creative Way to Cheer It UpThe solitary fish named Mambo stopped eating and seemed to be missing its human visitors—so aquarists attached photos of ...
Fish have feelings too – at least if a lonesome sunfish in a Japanese aquarium is anything to go by. Animal caretakers at the ...
"When an aquarium in Japan closed to the public for restorations, the aquarium's beloved sunfish grew lonely without visitors ...
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