The big animals starve; cattlepeople suffer as the leafy intruder sucks the worth out of ranches.
The animal will starve or poison itself, in all likelihood.
All animals would then starve.
They¡ ve got to stop for water and to cook what they have before the animals starve and rot.
The big animals must have starved faster.
All the other animals have starved or have been shot by snipers.
The tumours interfere with feeding, and the affected animal may starve to death.
The animals higher in the trophic levels may not completely starve to death and die off, but the decreased food supply could still hurt the populations.
The population grows until it overshoots the food supply, at which time the animals starve and the population crashes.
If Marie hadn't returned home soon, the poor animal might have starved.