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Shabani (Japanese: シャバーニ) is a male Western Lowland gorilla born at the Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands, and raised in Australia, who currently resides at the Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Japan. He gained publicity in 2007 at Higashiyama Zoo when he was 10 years old by tightrope walking.
He later gained added fame in 2015 due to being considered handsome and sexy and photogenic and metrosexual. This led to coverage in news and his being featured on the season 2 premiere of the TV series Not Safe with Nikki Glaser.
His residence caused a notable increase in younger female attendance at his zoo. There is a DVD film dedicated to him and he became the mascot for a candy line.
He was also used in a worker recruitment campaign by the city of Nagoya in January 2016.
