The people that were not killed had to eat lichen, their own boots, and the remains of dead animals left by wolves.

They eat grass, flowering plants, berries, roots, moss, and lichen.

They also eat a smaller amount of herbs, winterfat shrubs, and mosses, and have even been reported to eat lichen.

However, some eat lichen, flowers or pollen.

The larvae of some species eat lichen, while others prefer green leaves.

I lived among the rockfalls, eating lichen and beetles; the sun was only an orange ball on the horizon.

The survivors were forced to eat lichen and even attempted to eat their own leather boots.

They'd slaughter a musk ox, gorge on raw meat, then 10 days later find themselves hungry enough to eat rabbit droppings and lichen.

Their diets consist of about two-thirds bamboo, but they also eat mushrooms, roots, acorns, lichen and grasses.

Musk deer eat grass and moss; in winter they also eat twigs and lichen.