Sunfish

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Mai Kato, a staff member, told Mainichi Shimbun that the sunfish, which arrived at the aquarium a year ago, had a "curious" personality and "would swim up to visitors when they approached the tank".

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

Other winners of a slimy new epoch would be ocean sunfish, a giant bony fish whose individuals can clock in at more than 2,000 pounds and consume jellyfish — and velella — in mass quantities.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

But someone since then dumped in a bucket of wide-mouth bass, which eat native sunfish eggs, Lucero said.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 14, 2023

Orcas also seem to enjoy penguin breast meat and sunfish intestines, Meyer says.

From Scientific American • Apr. 11, 2023

But we were apt to catch sunfish and cat too small to keep.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck