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Strange crown: Japanese zoo is looking for chat partners for solitary eels
In Japan, zoos and aquariums in the crown era want to give people and animals a bit of comfort via the Internet. Since they have been closed due to the pandemic and visitors are staying away, they are now bringing the animal world into the living room with live broadcasts and videos, as reported by the Japanese news agency Kyodo on Saturday.
The world famous Ueno Zoological Garden in Japan’s capital Tokyo displays photos and videos of animals on the short message service Twitter and is already enjoying more than a million users. But apparently not only do people find comfort in looking at animals. The opposite is also supposed to happen with Aalen.
“Animals no longer see visitors except caretakers and begin to forget people,” Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo writes on Twitter. The ear tube eels would have suddenly started hiding in the sand when the keepers came. To do something about it, the aquarium is now asking people for help with an “emergency” action: They must show their faces to the eels through the FaceTime chat service and greet the animals.
For this purpose, eel tablets should be set up in front of the aquarium, where virtual visitors can dial for about five minutes via video chat. And in case the eels don’t react and come out, forgive in advance. (sda / dpa)
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