He survived by scrounging and stealing food. Late one night, Fone Bone finds a baby rat creature scrounging in the garbage. When most foragers adopt scrounging, the time taken to discover new food patches is greater. Most refugees are despised and are relegated to scrounging for the lowest day-laborer work. Many of the animals survived by scrounging food from visitors. Effie is left on her hands and knees, scrounging for change. While scrounging for supplies, the characters must satisfy basic needs&colon; sleep, heat, and hunger. It locates food by scrounging over the sea-floor.