Animal rights activists have long called for the release of Bua Noi (Little Lotus), which has spent more than 30 years in a cage at Pata zoo situated on the seventh floor of a shopping centre in Bangkok. Photo: EPA
Animal rights activists have long called for the release of Bua Noi (Little Lotus), which has spent more than 30 years in a cage at Pata zoo situated on the seventh floor of a shopping centre in Bangkok. Photo: EPA
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This Week in Asia /  Health & Environment

Thailand fails to free Bangkok mall’s caged gorilla that could ‘die any time due to old age’

  • Thai authorities had planned to buy the 33-year-old gorilla, which has spent over 30 years caged in a Bangkok shopping centre, to free it from the private Pata zoo
  • But zoo owners rejected the sale offer, claiming that the gorilla might not adjust to a new environment as it was used an ‘absence of natural pathogens’

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Updated: 8:15pm, 24 Oct, 2022

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Animal rights activists have long called for the release of Bua Noi (Little Lotus), which has spent more than 30 years in a cage at Pata zoo situated on the seventh floor of a shopping centre in Bangkok. Photo: EPA
Animal rights activists have long called for the release of Bua Noi (Little Lotus), which has spent more than 30 years in a cage at Pata zoo situated on the seventh floor of a shopping centre in Bangkok. Photo: EPA
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