Okay, if you are weighed down by something you can't remove, you could sink, but that would even happen in boring, old regular water. Survival guides stress the importance of staying still if this starts to happen. Also it is possible to struggle badly enough in a panic that you actually do drag yourself down instead of up. While animals and people do die in quicksand, it's almost never from the sand or drowning-it's from exposure or dehydration after exhausting themselves struggling against the sand - with the right combination of sand, clay, water, and salt, it is nearly impossible to escape the stuff without help. In fact, real quicksand is so dense that you can't sink in it the usual advice for someone who finds themselves caught in deep quicksand is to simply relax and float on their back. In truth, quicksand (while real) isn't terribly common, and exerts none of its movie counterpart's mythical "sucking" power. Although most victims blunder blindly into quicksand, it sometimes seems that the merest touch of an extremity is enough to pull the unwary into its muddy and all-consuming depths like iron filings to a magnet. While the above-displayed photographs are real, they do not depict the heartwarming story of a rhino rescuing a zebra - instead, they depict the less inspirational (but no less interesting) story of a hapless baby zebra accidentally killed by a curious rhino.Quicksand is a common and deadly element of jungle and desert terrain, and its most dangerous feature is its ability to suck people and animals down and drown them in a malevolent blend of sand and water. Finally, after dropping the zebra again, the bull laid in the mud to roll around and almost crushed the baby zebra. This time he lifted the zebra in a different position and his horn disemboweled the foal. He then came back for another prod and look-see. The rhino then dropped the foal and moved off. The rhino lifted the foal so quickly that it had no time to react. The foal, still being alive but very weak, could only lift its head out of the mud. After a while he grew impatient and lifted the body out. The rhino started to prod the zebra with his horn out of curiosity. The rhino bull, after being rebuffed by the cows numerous times, made his way down to the water and near to the muddy patch the foal was stuck in. Additionally, the rhino accidentally killed the foal during its investigation: It's true that one of the rhinos attempted to lift the zebra from the mud, but this was most likely an act of curiosity, not a gesture of goodwill. The herd was nowhere in sight so the foal must have been there for quite some time. it took me awhile to notice the tiny zebra foal stuck in the mud. Muiden said that he was taking pictures of a group of rhinos in South Africa's Madikwe Game Reserve when he noticed a floundering zebra foal: Muiden shared several additional photos of the unique interaction on the web site African Geographic, as well as a detailed explanation about what was happening when the photographs were taken. While the above-displayed photograph is frequently shared along with the claim that the rhino had saved the zebra foal, the real story isn't as uplifting. A photograph purportedly showing a rhinoceros lifting a zebra foal out of the mud has been circulating around the internet since at least February 2015, when it was shared by photographer Roel van Muiden of RvM Wildlife Photography.
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