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Bangkok Post
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HISTORICAL FACTS: No freedom on the horizon for bua noi | History Defined

Bua Noi has lived at Pata Zoo, atop a mall in Bangkok, ever since she was brought from Germany, where she was born, in 1992. (Photo: AFP)

Seven storeys above a shop floor hawking cheap perfume and nylon underwear, the “shopping mall gorilla” Bua Noi sits alone in a cage — her home for 30 years despire a reignited row over her captivity.

Activists around the world have long campaigned for the primate to be moved from Pata Zoo, located on top of a mall on the west side of the Chao Phraya Tiver, with singer Cher and actor Gillian Anderson adding their voices in 2020.

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