Rescued one-armed gorilla becomes mum in her 30s

Lengui was rescued by a Odzala National Park team in Congo-Brazzaville.

She was rehabilitated in Brazzaville Gorilla Orphanage, run by The Aspinall Foundation, in April 1994 before being rewilded.

However, Lengui was caught in a snare in April 2002.

When vets arrived, they discovered the snare had cut through her palm to the bone and an infection had spread to her wrist.

To save her life, vets amputated her arm below the elbow.

According to the Gorilla Organization, western lowland gorillas are critically-endangered, with about 150,000 left in the wild.