A sick sunfish stopped eating after its aquarium closed for renovations so the staff put cutouts of humans and pictures of smiling faces outside the tank and then it started eating the next day.
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The replies to this on social media fall into two camps: 1) what a heartwarming story, and 2) that fish is being abused via its containment in an aquarium. It reminds me that many feel-good stories are actually about societal failures.
If you like stories about marine animals we have taught to love us (and the horrible consequences of that choice) The Good Whale is a truly excellent podcast.
Ah, the good old "person keeps orphan crushing machine from crushing orphans" story.
There is, of course, a corresponding subreddit
https://reddit.com/r/orphancrushingmachine/hot
It's not just being in an aquarium, that tank looks absolutely barren! It makes sense that he (she?) missed having interesting moving shapes to look at, when there's literally nothing to interact with in the tank.
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