Miyazawa felt confident the fish has a “friendly personality ... A week after Kaikyokan’s closure, Miyazawa set up facial cutouts with aquarium staff uniforms to the outside of the ...

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 ...

the dearth of human visitors did seem to have some bearing on the behavior of the fish. On that point, staff resorted to an unlikely solution: placing face cutouts around the tank. Such measures ...