March 01, 2025
Staff at Kaikyokan Aquarium in Japan developed a unique solution to provide comfort to a sunfish that they believed was experiencing loneliness. According to the aquarium’s staff, the sunfish began behaving unusually and even stopped eating since the aquarium shut its doors to visitors in December 2024 to facilitate renovation work. Initially, the staff assumed that the fish could be experiencing health-related problems and tried to implement different solutions, but their efforts were in vain. Eventually, they realised that the fish was troubled by the absence of people. To address this problem, the staff stuck cutouts of human faces along with uniforms to the tank to resemble visitors. This strategy worked and the fish’s health improved quickly.
DID YOU KNOW?
Ocean sunfish can reach lengths of up to 11ft in the wild.
Ocean Sunfish
