Krill (crustaceans resembling prawns) subsist on phytoplankton and are in turn eaten by fish, squid, jellyfish, seabirds, penguins, seals, whales and other animals.

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If it was too wet to light a fire, they had to subsist on hardtack biscuits and cold sowbelly doused in vinegar.

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Monkey Point is inhabited by the Rama and Creole communities who live in isolation and are people of predominately African ancestry who subsist on fish and jungle animals.

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In drought years, many of their cows die and they subsist on food aid.

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In true survivalist manner, Croft also teaches his family how to subsist on alternative sources of nourishment, such as algae, roasted mice and live earthworms.

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Some 300, 000 people have been resettled so far, many in the southern Oromia region, where it has proved particularly hard to subsist.

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Partly because, since the election, the press has had to subsist on a dispiriting gruel of reviews, white papers and bills, leaked only in so far as the government wanted them leaked and, in truth, making dull news.

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Most women who land in Odessa are, like Katya, poorly educated, and often from villages that subsist on remittances from happier emigrants.

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