Penguins and otters refuse to eat food at Japan’s aquarium in viral video. Here’s why


A video of penguins and otters refusing to eat food at the Hakone-en aquarium in Japan has gone viral online. This came after the authorities started offering cheaper fish to them due to a rise in costs.

Penguins and otters refuse to eat food at Japan’s aquarium in viral video.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Penguins and otters refused to eat food at a Japan aquarium.
  • This came after the aquarium started giving cheaper fish to them due to rise in costs.
  • A video of the same has gone viral online.

A video of penguins and otters refusing to eat at an aquarium in Japan has gone insanely viral online. The reason behind the penguins and otters not eating their meals is because they are now being offered cheaper fish due to rising costs. According to AFP, the Hakone-en aquarium in central Japan’s Kanagawa region has scrapped some of its traditional and more expensive horse mackerel in favour of cheaper mackerel.

The menu change has not been received with a very good response from the penguins and otters as they are refusing to eat altogether. In the short clip that has gone viral online with over 15 million views, the penguins can be seen averting their beaks when the food is being offered to them.

Watch the viral video here:

“They take it into their mouths at first, but then they decide they don’t like it and drop it,” Hiroki Shimamoto, the aquarium head, told AFP. He suspects that they don’t like the size of their meals, which are bigger than their standard fare. “They sense something is off,” Shimamoto added.

“The problem is even more acute among the aquarium’s otters, who have uniformly rejected the cheaper fish,” Shimamoto quoted further.

(With inputs from AFP)

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