The new deadly coronavirus epidemic (COVID-19), which has spread to the world after the appearance of the Wuhan city of the People’s Republic of China and has killed 238,787 people, has some unexpected consequences. An aquarium, now closed in Japan, has invited its former visitors to talk to eels. Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo has announced that the eels in the aquarium, which have been closed since early March, have begun to forget what humans look like. It is stated that the species called garden eel has only been dealing with aquarium keepers since the beginning of March and when they saw these guards, they perceived people as a threat and started to put sand in their heads. People are called to ease eels The aquarium urged visitors to video conference to calm down the garden eel, which forgot people and began to perceive a threat to people when it saw people, who could not come to the aquarium for a while. The aquarium noted that the delicate nature of garden eel fish also makes it difficult to track the health of this species. The aquarium that says ‘We have an urgent request’ by making a statement on his Twitter account, ‘Can you show your garden eels to your face from your home?’ He asked people for help by asking the question. The aquarium has set the name of the event as a ‘festival of showing up’. While garden eels were delicate and cautious by nature, 300 eel fish living in a tank in the Sumida Aquarium got used to humans and rarely hid when they saw their visitors. The aquarium has placed five tablets that see this tank in order to connect garden eel fans with garden eel fish. Visitors will be able to contact garden eel fish with the FaceTime app on iPhone or iPad. When the video conference starts, people are asked to show their faces, wave and talk to eels. Considering the natural embarrassment of these animals, people are also asked to be careful not to raise their voices. The festival will be held between 3-5 May in the holiday week called Golden Week. This week, most people traveled under normal circumstances. Following the call of the aquarium, the campaign was launched on social media with the label ‘#PleaseRememberHumans’ (Please remember people). Some users also asked for the use of an application, from which computers and Android devices can access the aquarium.
