Sick of just hanging around, Shabani the gorilla has taken to walking the tightrope.
The 10-year-old western lowland gorilla is meant to hang on the rope but has started walking across it instead. He flaps his arms to keep his balance as onlookers cheer him on.
"The rope is meant for hanging on but he started walking on it shortly after he got here," said Hiroshi Kobayashi, head of Higashiyama Zoo in the central city of Nagoya.
PHOTO: AFP
"Gorillas climb trees in the wild but we have hardly seen them walking a tightrope," he said.
Shabani, who weighs 110kg, arrived in Japan from Sydney's Taronga Zoo in June. It is hoped that he might breed with one of Higashiyama Zoo's three female gorillas.
He already appears close with Nene, who at 36 is more than three times his age.
"She might seem a bit old," Kobayashi said, "but it is still fully possible to have a baby."(Afp)
因為不想再閒蕩，大猩猩夏巴尼竟愛上走繃索。這隻十歲大的西方低地大猩猩原來是要懸吊於繩索上，但牠卻走上繃索行進到另一端。牠雙臂外張保持平衡，圍觀民眾對牠報以歡呼聲。
日本名古屋市中心的東山動物園園長小林弘說：「繩索應是用來懸吊的，但牠到達繩索後不久就走上繩索。」
他說：「大猩猩擅長野地爬樹，但走繩索很少見。」
體重約110公斤的夏巴尼六月從澳洲雪梨的塔隆加動物園運抵日本，東山動物園方面希望牠可以與園內的三隻母猩猩繁殖後代。
牠目前與一隻年齡比牠大三倍多的三十六歲母猩猩「妮妮」走得很近。
小林說：「這隻母猩猩可能年紀有點大，不過牠還是很有可能生育。」（法新社╱翻譯：艾利斯）
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