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Knowing that the company will never do right by her, she joins up with a group of friends to scavenge for cryopods in an abandoned ship floating overhead, in hopes they can make their way to Yvaga themselves.

Fathers search for food and water, while children scavenge in garbage and wrecked buildings for scraps of wood or cardboard for their mothers to burn for cooking.

Their street is frequented by California black bears coming down from the San Gabriel Mountains to scavenge for food.

Without the sea ice, the polar bear must scavenge for other, less nutritious food.

That said, black bears, coyotes and even bobcats have figured out how to scavenge salmon carcasses after they’ve spawned, so it is reasonable to think a grizzly bear will eventually discover the food too.

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

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