Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.

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

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 facility closed for renovations.

To test the theory, aquarium staff decided to attach large cut-out photos of human faces to a row of uniforms along the side ...

Aquarium Staff Find Creative Way to Entertain a Lonely Starfish in Their Facility The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, ...

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.

An aquarium in Japan closed Dec. 1 for renovation work, much to the apparent dismay of a lone sunfish. It missed people and ...

Fish have feelings too – at least if a lonesome sunfish in a Japanese aquarium is anything to go by. Animal caretakers at the ...

The fish began banging into the side of its tank and appeared unwell days after the Kaikyokan aquarium in Shimonoseki, south-western Japan, closed last month for renovation work ...

The next morning, the sunfish ate for the first time in about a week and has been steadily recovering, said Moe Miyazawa, an aquarist at the Kaikyokan aquarium in Shimonoseki. When the sunfish ...