{"id":17750,"date":"2020-05-01T13:29:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/01\/japanese-aquarium-urges-public-to-video-chat-eels-who-are-forgetting-humans-exist"},"modified":"2020-05-01T13:29:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:29:46","slug":"japanese-aquarium-urges-public-to-video-chat-eels-who-are-forgetting-humans-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=17750","title":{"rendered":"Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting humans exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sensitive creatures are starting to hide when keepers walk past, as a result of the lack of visitors<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the garden eels at a Tokyo aquarium remove their heads from the sand, they are usually confronted by pairs of human eyes staring back at them through the glass.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2020\/apr\/22\/animals-roaming-streets-coronavirus-lockdown-photos\">like other animals<\/a> around the world, the eels at Sumida Aquarium are finding their environment transformed by the effects of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/japan-shinzo-abe-declares-state-of-emergency-over-coronavirus\">coronavirus outbreak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/01\/japanese-aquarium-urges-public-to-video-chat-eels-who-are-forgetting-humans-exist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sensitive creatures are starting to hide when keepers walk past, as a result of the lack of visitorsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen the garden eels at a Tokyo aquarium remove their heads from the sand, they are usually &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,914,88,468,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-japan","category-marine-life","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17751,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions\/17751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}