A male giraffe has been separated from his herd when he was ambushed by a group of lions. He began the search for them but after such an exhausting, disorienting chase, he begins wandering aimlessly into the night and is forced to lie down and sleep in unknown terrain. In the morning, unsure of his own whereabouts, he continues his journey. By the afternoon his focus has switched from finding his heard and he is now trying to find a watering hole. Unable to find a place to hydrate by nightfall, the giraffe, exhausted from the desert heat, passes out under an acacia tree after filling his stomach as much as he can, but with no water it was hard for him to eat very much. By noon the next day he finally finds a watering hole, a dried up natural spring that has formed a small pond at the base of a cliff. Unfortunately it has been dried out for a while and the pond isn’t very big and is surrounded by two male hamadryas baboons and their families, six baboons in total. The males, wanting to provide for their newborn offspring and knowing that their is not another watering hole closer than 10 miles away begin to shriek at the giraffe. But the the giraffe needs water and does not feel intimidated by the baboons. As he walks up to the watering hole, the male baboons begin to circle him while shrieking, they try to jump up and grab his neck but the giraffe musters up all the strength he has in him and shakes one off his neck, kicks him in the chin with his front foot and then knocks the other one out with a kick from his back foot. The conscious baboon rushes to protect their women and children but the giraffe is not interested in them, he walks over and drinks up while the baboons watch. The giraffe has no long term need so the baboon herd will be able to drink by morning.