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No freedom on the horizon for Bangkok 'mall gorilla' / 33BQ8LT
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Seven storeys above a shopfloor hawking cheap perfume and nylon underwear, Thailand's "shopping mall gorilla" sits alone in a cage -- her home for 30 years despite a re-ignited 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 Bangkok mall. But the family who owns Bua Noi -- whose name translates as "little lotus" -- have resisted public and government pressure to relinquish the critically endangered animal. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES