A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations.

TOKYO (AP) — A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for ...

An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors ... Likewise, the Kaikyokan Aquarium’s listless fish has long been the sole occupant of its tank. But what sets sunfish apart from ...

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 their sunfish ...

TOKYO -- A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in southwestern Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for ...

As a last-ditch measure to save the popular fish, its keepers hung their uniforms and set up human cutouts outside the tank. The next ... southern Japan Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025 (AP) Then at a ...

The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, Japan, which is undergoing renovations, revealed in a post on X that its staff had to think out of the box to help one of its sunfish struggling with the change.

Some say loneliness made a Japanese sunfish stop eating after its aquarium closed. One expert says it’s probably more ...

but one of them suggested the fish might have been lonely without visitors showing up to its tank. Sunfish, found in every ocean in the world, are a delicacy in Japan. They are believed to be able ...