Since the days of the first cave dwellers, humans-hairless, weak, and helpless save for cunning-have survived by joining together in groups; knowing, as so many other edible creatures have found, that there is protection in numbers.

"We are larger than any edible creature we have met."

There should be no shortage of their natural prey in these mountains-there are all kinds of edible creatures.

An engrossing, illuminating, depressing journey, with a research ecologist, to the dwindling populations of wild edible creatures in the sea.

Local waters delivered up plenteous edible creatures and sun-worshiping citrus trees yielded fruit to spare, but cows and their most precious commodity - milk - did not fare so well.

The rabbit struggling on the ground, hurt, helpless, had been the first edible creature he had seen all day.

Though he spoke in the language of the great apes of the jungle, it is doubtful that Sheeta understood the words, though he knew well enough that the hairless ape wished to frighten him from his well-chosen station past which edible creatures might be expected to wander sometime during the watches of the night.

Optionally, various edible creatures (goats, humans, dogs, and Compsognathus) will scurry across the arena, partially replenishing lost health when eaten or killed by one of the fighters.

At La Mina's camp, while Austin and the other men searched for edible creatures in the water, Dan spoke to Nick about his space flights at NASA.

They were forced to subsist on what edible wild creatures and plants they could find, and at least once had to butcher and eat some of their precious horses and staghounds.