Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting human

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When the garden eels at a Tokyo aquarium remove their heads from the sand, they are usually confronted by pairs of human eyes staring back at them through the glass.

But like other animals around the world, the eels at Sumida Aquarium are finding their environment transformed by the effects of the coronavirus outbreak.

They also appear to be forgetting what humans look like. Concerned that the garden eels – so named because their grass-like appearance when, en masse, they poke their heads out of the seabed – could come to see visitors as a threat, the aquarium is asking people to get in touch in the form of a calming video calls.

“Garden eels in particular disappear into the sand and hide every time the keepers pass by,” it said, adding that their oversensitive nature was making it difficult to monitor their health.

S: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/japanese-aquarium-urges-public-to-video-chat-eels-who-are-forgetting-humans-exist

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

Why Video call tho?

Couldn't you just stick up some cardboard cut outs? Or a TV with people on it?

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1 minute ago, RahrahWitch said:

Why Video call tho?

Couldn't you just stick up some cardboard cut outs? Or a TV with people on it?

Yeah but that's less extra... so

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I feel like im having a much more emotional reaction to this than i should be 
Let me facetime some eels 

[gumzy3000 7,898]

This is the second thread about this I saw on here.... Is this really that serious? 

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Is it bad that I wanna face time with those eels more than my family. Lol