'Six Giraffes--As Seen on the Internet from a Drone' by Joan Leotta

At a barely wet waterhole, now mostly mud, six giraffes struggle. Four of them lay flat on the mud, legs splayed, stuck, but their legs can be seen still working to push themselves to the water. One, however, instead of pushing herself ahead is trying to propel a small giraffe calf  toward the remaining potable water in the shrinking pond. The little one’s gentle head is down tongue out. His lighter body skims over the mud as he stretches toward the remaining, likely brackish, water.
I don’t know if any of these gentle creatures survived. The drone did not return but I am sure of one thing—that mother giraffe’s love for child is greater than her own thirst, even her will to live.