As with most foods, subsisting on solely one crop can produce dietary deficiency. Like most arboreal species, most squirrels are primarily granivores, subsisting on nuts and seeds. Unknown as a writer, he was subsisting as a migrant laborer working intermittent jobs. These semi-nomadic people live in small groups, subsisting on hunting, gathering, and some crops. Subsisting on shellfish from the beaches and salmon from Sequalitchew Creek. At this time, Fairchild's intellectual properties, on which Fairchild had been subsisting, were expiring. The Neolithic of the Middle East featured urban concentrations of people subsisting mainly on grain. He chafed at subsisting on a student's limited funds, and wanted a good, steady income. R. B. Bennett's family was poor, subsisting mainly on the produce of a small farm. In 1952, the Leary family spent a year in Spain, subsisting on a research grant. She lost as a result of subsisting on protein bars and water.