Lockdown has seen wildlife across the globecreeping into the openwhile humans stay at base , but as“nature is healing”in some places ( NB : it ’s not ) , some animalsaren’t loving the lockdownquite so much . An fish tank in Japan has made a plea for visitant unable to pay heed the aquarium to instead video call their eels , as a lack of people has caused them to become shy making their charge more complex .

Inside the Tokyo Skytree pillar , the tallest tower in the world , sit theSumida Aquarium , home to hundreds of spotted garden eel . In the raving mad , garden eel are highly suspicious and obscure in the guts at the first sign of hassle . The museum ’s eels , however , had become accustomed to the admirers around their tanks . Without feeling the pauperism to conceal , the eel made it well-situated for the aquarium worker caring for them to hold back that they were content and healthy .

As lockdown measures have forced the aquarium to close its doors since other March , however , the empty edifice has resulted in their eels become more and more spooky of humans . agree to the aquarium doer , the eels are now becoming shy again and keep disappear into the George Sand whenever they lapse by . This shyness perplex their guardianship , as the staff are n’t able to check on the health of the animals as easily as they could before .

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In an attempt to refamiliarize the eels with their armoured combat vehicle - side admirers , the aquarium is launching a three - day “ hand brake result ” on May 3 to remind their resident eel that humans be . The “ Chinanago face show festival ” , as the aquarium has termed it , invites visitors to call the marine museum through Facetime on an iPad or iPhone ( detail on how to here ) where they ’ll be presented via five tablets surround the tank to have a video chat ( not too loudly ) with the attention - famish eels .

It ’s go for the event will be a chance to operate in socialisation for both the eel and the caller , as it happens in the eye of the Golden Week holiday , when Japan usually sees a boom in tourism . While there are currently no strict lockdown measures in place in Japan , the federal agency have requested that citizen stay home as much as potential to prevent further spread of the SARS - CoV-2 coronavirus .

[ H / T : Quartz ]