foraging

Locals know Phillips as a bushman with survival skills that would have set him up for building shelters and foraging for food in the wilderness.

While on holiday she was fascinated by their foraging behaviour as they moved gracefully through the shallow, saline wetlands, filter-feeding for molluscs and crustaceans.

She also claimed she didn't tell authorities the truth about her mushroom foraging hobby because she feared they might blame her for making her relatives sick.

There was no "particular motive" for the alleged crime, Dr Rogers told the court, but the jury should still have "no difficulty" in rejecting the argument "this was all a horrible foraging accident".

Sheriff officials suspect Slaton survived by foraging from the land and using the cabin for shelter.