Sick sunfish recovers after ‘a touch of humans’


Craving an audience: The sunfish swimming near cardboard cut-outs of people in uniforms at Kaikyokan in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, Japan. — AP

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.

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

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