The "world's loneliest gorilla" is set for another bleak Christmas locked away ... the solitary animal has been holed up at Thailand's hotly disputed Pata Zoo for four decades, despite glitzy ...

But the crowd of visitors at the privately run Pata Zoo on the roof of an old Bangkok mall wants to see more of the female gorilla. An employee lures Bua Noi ("Little Lotus") with a sachet of milk.