This orangutan saw a man wading in snake-infested water and decided to offer a helping hand

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(CNN)The natural world never fails to surprise us, and this moving encounter between an orangutan and a man in Borneo has melted hearts all over the world.Amateur photographer Anil Prabhakar captured the fleeting moment, in which one of the Indonesian island’s critically endangered apes stretched out its hand to help a man out of snake-infested water.

Prabhakar was on a safari with friends at a conservation forest run by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation(BOS) when he witnessed the scene.He told CNN: “There was a report of snakes in that area so the warden came over and he’s clearing snakes.