This is the heartwarming moment a baby goral was rescued by a fisherman after falling into a lake while fleeing from wild dogs.<br /><br />Tharitipun Mantanawet, 32, noticed the stranded animal while fishing with his friend at Bhumibol Dam in Tak, western Thailand on July 10.<br /><br />The male goral - a type of goat-like creature - was seen struggling as it tried to swim through the deep cold water.<br /><br />Tharitipun said he believes the goral had been running away from a pack of Dholes, which he had recently seen on top of the cliffs and heard barking.<br /><br />Footage shows how the kind-hearted fisherman sailed his boat to the animal, which was exhausted from swimming in the river for several minutes.<br /><br />Tharitipun quickly caught him by the horns and pulled him up onto the boat. The fisherman tried to release the goal back onto the rocks - but it kept swimming away in the lake.<br /><br />He then spent the next 15 minutes trying to find a safe place on the beast, before dragging it some 3km away to a muddy shore.<br /><br />The patient fisherman believes that the goral had tumbled down the cliff while fleeing the wild dogs. <br /><br />He said: ''I saw two or three wild dogs above the cliff, so I guess that the goral might have been running for his life and fallen down there.<br /><br />''I was glad to find him and successfully save him in time. Otherwise, he might have drowned or might have been killed by local hunters.''
