{"id":599415,"date":"2026-05-23T07:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T07:19:08","slug":"rescued-one-armed-gorilla-becomes-mum-in-her-30s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/599415\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescued one-armed gorilla becomes mum in her 30s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lengui was rescued by a Odzala National Park team in Congo-Brazzaville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was rehabilitated in Brazzaville Gorilla Orphanage, run by The Aspinall Foundation, in April 1994 before being rewilded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Lengui was caught in a snare in April 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When vets arrived, they discovered the snare had cut through her palm to the bone and an infection had spread to her wrist. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To save her life, vets amputated her arm below the elbow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the Gorilla Organization, western lowland gorillas are critically-endangered, with about 150,000 left in the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lengui was rescued by a Odzala National Park team in Congo-Brazzaville. She was rehabilitated in Brazzaville Gorilla Orphanage,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-599415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}