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Penguins and otters refuses cheaper fish diet as Japanese aquarium face rising costs

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Penguins and otters refuse cheaper fish diet as Japanese aquarium faces rising costs

Penguins and otters at the Hakone-en Japanese aquarium in the Kanagawa prefecture have been refusing to eat the cheaper fish switched in their diet.

The aquarium, which typically fed the animals horse mackerel, switched to a more budget-friendly mackerel due to rising costs.

“For the ones who refuse to eat the new fish, we just give them what they used to eat”, said a spokesperson at the aquarium to Vice.

The Agence France-Press (AFP) attributed the rising cost of horse mackerel to general inflation and a recent low catch yield.

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