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.

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 ...

An aquarium in Japan has come up with a creative solution to cheer up a “lonely” sunfish who is missing humans during the venue's closure for refurbishment. Staff at the Kaikyokan aquarium in ...

That year, 88 sea otters were housed in aquariums in Japan. But the number plummeted to 30 in 2011 and to 10 in 2017. The last sea otter in the Tokyo metropolitan area died at the Aqua World ...

OARAI, Ibaraki Prefecture--A sand tiger shark was born at the Aqua World Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium here, the first successful breeding of the species in Japan. Only four other aquariums ...

Do fish get lonely? Apparently so, according to staff at an aquarium in Japan, who have provided cut-out human companions for a solitary sunfish they noticed had started to look unwell.

The staff at an aquarium in Japan faced a unique problem with their fishes and came up with a bizarre solution for it. The aquarium staff at the Kaikyokan noticed that their solitary sunfish had ...

The oblong-shaped fish quickly became a favourite among visitors before the aquarium closed. The facility has announced on X that it will reopen in summer in Japan – which falls between June and ...