Sentence examples for confrontational scavenging from inspiring English sources

It is not necessary to claim that hominins became obligate confrontational scavengers (few if any animals are), only that confrontational scavenging was added to the arsenal of hominin behaviours as the currently most favoured strategy.

Hand-axes could have had a dual function in confrontational scavenging, since the latter would inevitably involve hostile interactions with competing scavengers (including predators larger and fiercer than their modern equivalents).

That niche was confrontational scavenging, sometimes called "power scavenging" [ 16].

Here it is argued that confrontational scavenging was such an episode.

Priority of access could, of course, have resulted from either confrontational scavenging or hunting.

Engaging in confrontational scavenging does not preclude bone-marrow extraction; both might have been practised.

Among the most potentially revealing of the studies suggested by the confrontational-scavenging hypothesis would be those involving species that faced a similar ecological problem: the need to practice recruitment in order to exploit large, unpredictable and transient food sources, with or without the complication of competition.

"They are scavenging everything.

"Typical of scavenging.

We ate by scavenging.

Scavenging dogs appear on cue.