article_snippet: Helplessly stuck in a patch of mud, The foal appeared doomed to a prolonged and agonising death.
article_snippet: Stuck in the mud: A bull rhino spots a zebra foal stuck in mud near a watering hole at the Madikwe Game Reserve and decides to start prodding the hapless youngster with his horn .
article_snippet: Roel van Muiden, a field guide and wildlife photographer, spotted the foal stuck in a deep and pitiless patch of mud while Roel van Muiden, a field guide and wildlife photographer was showing visitors around the Madikwe Game Reserve in South Africa.
article_snippet: the foal must have been there for quite some time,' wrote Mr van Muiden in Africa Geographic.
article_snippet: Wandering down to the water, Roel van Muiden, a field guide and wildlife photographer found the foal.
article_snippet: Mr van Muisen added that the foal's mother probably knew the foal's mother child was caught in a hopeless situation.
article_snippet: the foal's mother probably had good reason for abandoning it to it
article_snippet: Despite the foal's sad and early end, Mr van Muisen said Mr van Muisen felt lucky to see what Mr van Muisen described as 'an amazing interaction between two species.'
highlights_snippet: The foal had been abandoned in a patch of mud by The foal mother and herd .
  