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.

Its sunfish fell ill soon after and staffers struggled to understand why the creature suddenly stopped eating, the aquarium said on X. 3 Aquarium staff in Japan used cardboard cutouts of visitors ...

A picture posted by the aquarium shows the sunfish swimming in its tank, one of its eyes turned toward makeshift “people” made from cardboard cutout faces and aquarium uniforms on hangers ...

When the sunfish began looking unwell days after the aquarium closed on Dec. 1 for a six-month renovation, its keepers suspected digestive problems, gave it less food, and visited the fish tank to ...

A sociable sunfish who was reportedly missing its human audience during a temporary closure of its aquarium in Japan has been comforted in an unorthodox way. In a photo posted by the aquarium in ...

A SUNFISH that was literally dying of loneliness has been saved with a group of cardboard cutouts friends keeping it company. The fish became unwell when the Kaikyokan aquarium where it lives in Sh… ...

In this photo released by Shimonoseki Marine Science Museum "Kaikyokan," a sunfish swims near cardboard cutouts of people in uniforms at Kaikyukan in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, southern ...

The aquarium noted on its website that the renovations began on Dec. 1, 2024, and that the sunfish tank, as well as the other fish tanks, were scheduled to reopen in six months around summer 2025.

An aquarium in Japan is using cardboard cutouts of visitors to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish who stopped eating after the building closed to real-life visitors. Kaikyokan Aquarium in ...

The aquarium noted, “We didn't know the cause [of the fish feeling unwell] ... but one of the staff members said, ‘Maybe he's lonely without the visitors?’ " ...