An aquarium based in Tokyo is pleading the public to show their faces towards the aquarium’s garden eels, as they notice that the eels are forgetting what humans look like. Before, when these eels remove their heads from the sand, they are usually met with human faces staring at them. But now that many humans can now only stay indoors, the institution fears that their behavior towards humans will change drastically.
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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.
“They don’t see humans, except keepers, and they have started forgetting about humans,” it said on its Twitter account this week.
“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.
More details about this request over at The Guardian.
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Source: neatorama