SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Zoo hosted a ribbon cutting and grand opening of its long-awaited gorilla habitat, Congo Falls, on Saturday.

Congo Falls is an immersive experience, including three distrinct areas, tropical landscaping, water features and gorilla enrichment zones. One of the main features of Congo Falls is the Mays Family Silverback Peak, which is the tallest gorilla tower in the world at 70 feet high.

“They have plenty of options to interact with each other, to interact with different things, but also room to get away from each other too because just like people sometimes gorillas want breaks from each other as well. So it’s nice to have plenty of space that they can kind of do their own thing also,” Rachel Malstaff, Director of Animal Care at San Antonio Zoo said in an interv

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