Humans aren’t the only species that can get bullied – animals also pick on their peers who are different.
In light of that, a veterinarian recently gave a rockfish at the Vancouver Aquarium a prosthetic eye to keep it from being picked on by other fish in the tank.
The older rockfish developed cataracts and had to have its left eye removed.
Head veterinarian Martin Haulena knew that the other fish in its tank would pick on it for looking sick and weak, so he gave the fish a new eye.
Haluena fixed the prosthetic eye to a bone above its eye socket with nylon stitches and attached it with titanium clips– all while the fish was under anesthetic.
“Some people don’t realize how much effort we give fish,†he said.
The rockfish can’t see out of the eye, but it’s almost impossible to tell that it isn’t real.