Zoolander: Shabani the Handsome Gorilla
Ready for the weirdest game of 'Hot or Not' you've ever played? Okay, does anyone else think this gorilla is quite attractive ? Quite a lot of women in Japan do. In fact Shabani, who lives at the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens has caused a flurry of stories because the ladies find him so handsome. CNN says about 100 admirers at a time surround his enclosure and that they call out to him, like concert goers to a pop star. (The image above came from Australia's NineMSN Pickle page , via @hapyyuka on Twitter). Leave it to Japan,where the young population is famously apathetic about sex and dating to make a heart throb out of member of another species. Just throw it on the giant pile of reasons that Japan is fascinating and I want to go to there. The BBC’s “ Shabani: The Making of a Metrosexual Gorilla .” let's us know that the model primate is in a May-December relationship - his “wife” is 24 years his senior (hooray for older ladies). ...