The Paignton Zoo Great Gorillas Project auction has raised £100,000.
A total of £99,800 was bid on the night – a secret donation of £200 made the sum up to six figures.
27 large gorillas and two smaller cousins went under the hammer at a prestigious charity auction night at the Palace Theatre, Paignton.
How did your favourite gorilla do?
Barry (sponsored by Torquay BID) £3,200
Mr Bumble (Frobishers Juices) £4,400
Five Minutes to Midnight (Wollen Michelmore) £4,000
Sora (Exeter College) £2,600
Misty (Union Square Shopping Centre) £2,600
Miss Prints (Harlequins Shopping Centre) £3,000
Ubuntu (Guildhall Shopping Centre) £4,000
Hearts by Kirstie Allsopp (RH Partners) £3,200
Poirot (South Devon College) £2,800
Nacho (Wild in Art) £2,500
Hippocampus Guttulatus (Cavanna Homes) £3,400
Gatsby – medium sized gorilla £1,400
Bob (Bob Hill Haulage) £2,400
Skins (ATASS Group) £4,000
X-ray Ape (Paignton Zoo) £3,200
The Back of Beyond (Babbacombe Model Village) £4,400
Gi Gi, by Galmpton C of E Primary School (National Trust Greenway) £2,800
Dragilla (Inter-line) £3,400
Hope (Zoo Vue) £4,900
Hanky Panky On Holiday (Torquay BID) £3,200
Not so Different (Cathedral Financial Management) £3,100
Cool Ice Cream Bananas (Princesshay Shopping Centre) £3,700
Beverley (Beverley Holidays) £3,800
Handy Work – medium sized gorilla painted by N’Dowe, a real gorilla £2,700
Takamanda (University of Exeter) £3,800
Darth Vader (Cavanna Homes) £3,800
Vanilla Gorilla (Palm FM) £3,000
Bananarilla (Stagecoach) £5,200
Flagged (Paignton BID) £5,300
Three full sized gorillas were not included in the auction: Lilo (sponsored by Torbay Council, the Herald Express and Hi-Line) will go back on display in public places around the Bay; Francis (sponsored by Francis Clark) was pre-purchased by the sponsors; and Herbert, who will stay at Paignton Zoo.
One gorilla – Five Minutes to Midnight – was sold in aid of Children’s Hospice South West.
Pippa Craddock, Paignton Zoo’s Director of Marketing & Development, said: “It was an amazing night wrapping up an amazing project in really great style. Thank you to all our partners and sponsors, to everyone who helped out and to everyone who bought a gorilla.”