“Here is an urgent request,” the aquarium wrote. “Could you show your face to our garden eels from your home?” it said, naming the event a “face-showing festival”. While garden eels are sensitive and wary by nature, the 300 of them living in one of the aquarium’s tanks had grown accustomed to human visitors and rarely hid when approached by visitors.
To help the eels reconnect with their admirers, the aquarium is setting up five tablets facing their tank, with users asked to connect through iPhones or iPads via the FaceTime app.
Once the video calls start, people are asked to show their faces, wave and talk to the eels. But, given the animals’ natural bashfulness, they are requested not to raise their voices.
The aquarium’s plea has attracted lots of online support, under the Japanese hashtag #PleaseRememberHumans.
via @guardian
Scene from a quarantine centre in Agra, where the containment model against COVID-19 is being hailed as a benchmark by UP government.
Footage from local resident Jyoti Verma shared by @the_hindu
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The Haifa municipality held a Zoom meeting on the matter on Sunday
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