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After weeks of patience, last year's winner, Shane Gross, captured peppered moray eels scavenging for carrion at low tide.

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As the afternoon wore on, the family used rope scavenged from a neighbor’s courtyard to secure a tarp between two taller chunks of concrete.

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Heavy and jagged portions of the floors and walls sat in piles where tree roots and vines had pushed through and wound around the remains of scavenged equipment, a kind of mechanical carnage.

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Though they're not inherently dirty animals, rats scavenge in sewers and bins and can pass on serious diseases to humans.

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Even the kinder ones who persuade her and Andy to join them on a scavenging run to what looks like an abandoned space station treat him as expendable.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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