The phrase "hunting terrestrial" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to hunting land-dwelling animals as opposed to aquatic or marine animals. Example: "The tribe relied on hunting terrestrial animals for food, such as deer and rabbits."
During the winter, bands dispersed across the landscape to hunt terrestrial mammals.
He, too, is a sort of hunter, but one who hunts terrestrial creatures rather than aquatic.
For aquatic animals that hunt terrestrial prey, the refraction of light when it strikes water further complicates the matter.
One such area is the territory of the Conca d'Oro in NW Sicily, which has numerous sites with faunal remains testifying to economies mainly based on hunting of terrestrial ungulates and on the regular consumption of molluscs.
This ideal habitat configuration, which facilitates birds' terrestrial hunting, was found primarily in intensively farmed fruit tree plantations which dominated the landscape matrix: this habitat offers extensive strips of bare ground due to systematic removal of ground vegetation along tree rows.
Usually, terrestrial hunting occurs on nights with warm temperatures.
I suggest reinstating it, therefore using this full title "The bigger they are, the wider they turn: Mass defines limits hunting options in terrestrial, cursorial predators".
While brucellosis has been identified as an important zoonotic disease in Alaska, the public health risk is thought to be from the hunting of infected terrestrial, and not marine, mammals [ 13].
[Editors' note: what now follows is the decision letter after the authors submitted for further consideration.] Thank you for resubmitting your work entitled "Mass limits hunting options in terrestrial, cursorial predators" for further consideration at eLife.
To our knowledge, this is the first time that fine-scale hunting strategies of any terrestrial predator have been documented (but cf. [ 3] for marine predators).
