When a sunfish started acting strange at an aquarium in Japan, the staff thought it had fallen ill. However, there was a simpler answer with a creative solution.

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.

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 was ailing. Almost as soon as the ...

The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki is home to the ocean sunfish. 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 ...

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 ...

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

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi -- A sunfish at a municipal aquarium undergoing renovation in this west Japan city became unwell, but recovered after its tank was decorated with staff uniforms and pictures ...

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 ...