Maria was four years old, in 1986, when her mother left their village of Guastatoya, tucked in the foothills of Guatemala's Sierra de las Minas range, in search of something better for her children.
Inevitably, there is competition amongst pastoralists in the district for the available range resources, necessitating frequent livestock movements within the range in search of pasture and water (Raikes 1981).
In some years, large numbers of Bohemian waxwings irrupt well beyond their normal winter range in search of the fruit that makes up most of their diet.
A provocative picture of the male-dominated action genre as a whole is offered by Starbreeze's wonderful, terribly sad Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, whose juvenile heroes brave the depths of a mountain range in search of a cure for their father's illness.
This extensive forest would have allowed the free movement of fauna, including subadult rhesus macaques, which normally leave their home groups and range in search of new groups.
However, in periods of reduced prey availability, central place foragers will have to increase effort and/or extend their range in search of resources to meet the nutritional needs of the offspring and their own maintenance (Cairns, 1987; Abrams, 1991).
A ravenous, snorting pig would occasionally break its tether and range wide in search of food, sometimes finding it in a villager's unprotected store.
They are capable of undertaking long-range migrations in search of suitable foraging regions [14], [20], [23] [26], and represent an important top-trophic component of many Southern Ocean marine ecosystems [27].
He served on spooky missions in Vietnam: an Army Ranger going deep into the jungle on long-range reconnaissance patrols in search of the enemy.
The mechanism, described in the current issue of Science, lets the Issus ratchet up their jumps, giving them an advantage over less well-developed rivals, by letting them escape predators and range more widely in search of food.
