Thailand has failed to secure the release of an ageing gorilla that will spend his last days locked up in a grubby mall zoo cage.
Bua Noi (Little Lotus) has spent more than 30 years in a cage at the private Pata zoo, which is on the seventh floor of a Bangkok shopping centre.
Thailand's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment last week said it was planning to buy the female gorilla from the mall owners for 30 million baht (£680,000).
