Sunfish

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A sociable sunfish who was reportedly missing its human audience during a temporary closure of its aquarium in Japan has been comforted in an unorthodox way.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

“The ocean sunfish will actually kind of put their heads out of the water as they eat these. It resembles Pac-Man eating pellets,” he said.

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

A sunfish found near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean weighed as much as an S.U.V.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2022

One pond that had been treated with DDT to remove unwanted shiners remained so poisonous through repeated drainings and flushings that it killed 94 per cent of the sunfish with which it was later stocked.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson