the illegal animal traders had kept the terrified three-year-old in the box for two weeks .
the men had been trying to find a buyer on the lucrative black market when they were stopped at a check point trying to cross into sierra leone from guinea , in west africa , last week .
the traffickers , who kept the three-year-old alive with food -lrb- pictured -rrb- had been trying to find a buyer for her .
but even more probably she might not even survive , as the estimations are that for one young ape , smuggled out of africa .