Bristol Zoo’s gorilla troop is set to move into a new woodland home which they’ll share with monkeys and parrots.
The relocation will be part of the zoo’s transfer from its longterm home in Clifton to the site currently occupied by its Wild Place Project in South Gloucestershire.
A planning application on the details of site’s development will go before the city council in spring next year, and the zoo today shared more of what the new habitat will look like.
At the moment, its troop of eight western lowland gorillas, the youngest of whom was born in December 2020, live in an enclosure called Gorilla Island in Clifton.
Their new home will be ‘an immersive woodland exhibit’ called the ‘Central Africa Forests’, where they will live with a new group of endangered cherry-crowned mangabey monkeys and African grey parrots.
The enclosure will also include rare slender-snouted crocodiles and even rarer species of West African fish which…
