Monkeys to replace birds at Snowdon Aviary under revised Foster plans

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Listed Cedric Price structure to get a major overhaul

Foster & Partners has unveiled revised designs for its long-anticipated refurb of London Zoo’s grade II-listed Snowdon Aviary.

Under the new proposals, birds would be banished from Cedric Price’s famous enclosure to be replaced by a troop of monkeys.

Fosters’ original proposals, submitted to Westminster council in June 2017, envisaged a multi-species enclosure containing the aviary’s original feathered inhabitants, colobus monkeys and a herd of miniature red duiker deer, which would have been free to roam the aviary floor.

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