This prompted the staff to print some cardboard cutouts of visitors to stick onto the aquarium glass to make it look like people were watching the fish. They also used staff uniforms, which they taped ...

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

A photo posted by the aquarium shows the cutouts facing the tank with the uniforms pasted on the glass. While it’s nearly impossible to tell what creatures like fish are feeling, the sunfish’s ...

How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of ... one of its eyes turned toward makeshift “people” made from cardboard cutout faces and aquarium uniforms on hangers ...

As a last-ditch measure to save the popular fish, its keepers hung their uniforms and set up human cutouts outside the tank. The next morning, the sunfish ate for the first time in about a week ...

As a last-ditch measure to save the popular fish, its keepers hung their uniforms and set up human cutouts outside the tank.

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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?’ " Kimberlee Speakman is a digital ...

As a last-ditch measure to save the popular fish, its keepers hung their uniforms and set up human cutouts outside the tank. The next morning, the sunfish ate for the first time in about a week ...