Don't show me this message again✕ Bua Noi in her cage at Pata Zoo in Bangkok (EPA) Cher has launched a campaign to rehome a gorilla who lives in a cage above a shopping centre in Thailand. Bua Noi, whose name means Little Lotus, has lived on top of the department store at Pata Zoo in Bangkok since 1990. The gorilla – marketed as the country’s King Kong – has not had contact with another member of her species for more than 10 years, according to The Sunday Times. Cher, who recently helped liberate “the world’s loneliest elephant” in Pakistan, has joined campaigners in calling for Bua Noi and the other 300 animals that live at the zoo – which opened in 1982 – to be moved to sanctuaries.