Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting humans exist

"Here is an urgent request: could you show your face to our garden eels from your home?" Sensitive creatures are starting to hide when keepers walk past, as a result of the lack of visitors. Because of this, an aquarium in Tokyo has devised a "face-showing festival" to make sure its garden eels don't forget what a friendly human looks like. Writing in the Guardian, Justin McCurry reports.