Opened by Duke of Edinburgh in March 2007, the Gorilla Kingdom is home to a group of western lowland gorillas, and consists of a moated island with an indoor gym for the gorillas to use. The Gorilla Kingdom areas also features smaller enclosures housing eastern black and white colobus, white-naped mangabeys and creasted black macaque.
On the south side of the Michael Sobell Pavilions for Apes and Monkeys is a bronze statue of Guy the Gorilla, a famous resident of the Zoo from 1947 to 1978. Installed 1982, donated by William Timyn, sculptor; cast by the Morris Singer Foundry.
Fencing was erected around the statue in 2001. The Statue was moved to Barclay Court in 2003, and then to the Main Gate in May 2012.
