A gorilla held on the seventh floor of a concrete department store in Thailand for 28 years is finally being released.
The primate Bua Noi, which means Little Lotus, has been in Bangkok’s Pata department store since 1987 alongside tigers, leopards, monkeys and apes – who are made to perform to visitors.
An online petition, started last year, calling for all the animals to be released has been signed by almost 50,000 people.
Thai authorities have decided that the zoo break several laws and has ordered the removal of Bua Noi and the other animals