{"id":445788,"date":"2025-12-14T04:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445788\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:56:22","slug":"san-antonio-zoo-gorilla-habitat-grand-opening-has-families-going-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445788\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Zoo gorilla habitat grand opening has families going bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 Confetti cannons and pyrotechnics welcomed gorillas back to the San Antonio Zoo on Saturday morning. Hundreds of families eagerly waited in line to see the new exhibit: Congo Falls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe City has been waiting thirty-five years for the return of the gorillas, and we\u2019re so excited to see thousands of thousands of people are here,\u201d said CEO and President of the San Antonio Zoo Tim Morrow.<\/p>\n

The two-acre habitat is filled with greens and a 70-foot-tall Gorilla Viewing Tower for guests to watch the seven gorillas inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for more than a year for this to open. We\u2019ve started a countdown at home,\u201d said one family who showed up to the grand opening in custom-made gorilla shirts.<\/p>\n

The new effort from the zoo drew recognition from county, city, and state officials while promising to continue to support conservation efforts around the globe.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, we have babies in the next couple of years and continue to grow this group because we built a big habitat with that future in mind of having big families,\u201d Morrow said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re already talking about what\u2019s next for San Antonio Zoo,\u201d Morrow continued. \u201cWe have the entire other side of 281 on the zoo ground still to build out. So we have been saying we want to bring elephants back in a big way, so that\u2019ll be in our future. But we have some really great designs coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomebody asked us yesterday, \u2018How are you gonna top Congo Falls?\u2019\u201d Morrow said. \u201cWe just said, just wait.\u201d<\/p>\n

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