But today these carcasses lie uneasily in their burial grounds, preyed upon by grave robbers of a new sort.
Without the conventional support of plot and character or the unifying guidelines of time and place, the reader is on shaky ground, easy prey for Esterhazy's encyclopedic target practice.
It provides a moral high ground to prey on the weak, to justify almost anything.
Most commonly the grey currawong probes the ground for prey, but sometimes chases more mobile animals.
They've managed to stake out better rhetorical ground: by preying on American anxieties about female sexuality, they've managed to get more Americans backing their ideas in theory (though not at all in practice).
We suggest future research evaluate bobcat foraging strategies in pine savannas to potentially reduce incidental encounters between bobcats and ground-dwelling prey species.
The rockfowl has also been observed hopping from the ground and snatching prey midair.
When they're hunting, they primarily train their eyes on the ground, scanning for prey, and they can be distracted by other raptors encroaching on their territory.
Then quickly strike the net to the ground, capturing your prey! (Be careful with the last step. If you start to fall while striking, it will hear you).
A year ago, while searching on the Internet, Mr. Wall found his prey, grounded derelict on an airfield in Guthrie, Okla.
In the last several years, the reefs have drawn swift open-ocean fish, like tuna and mackerel, that use the reefs as hunting grounds for smaller prey.
