scavenger

At the Ojai Valley Inn’s “night camp,” for instance, you can sign the children up for a scavenger hunt followed by dinner, a movie and s’mores.

A lot of the pictures and mementos on the walls had already been taken down to keep scavengers from taking them.

The surface is now home to scavengers, soldiers, mutants, and ghouls, all doing their best to survive on spoiled food, brackish water, and whatever’s left in long-abandoned vending machines.

Old World vultures scavenge more than their American sisters, and white-backed vultures is even considered an obligate scavenger, lacking the ability to kill its prey.

“Like most things in the city, we have divided them into silos, and people who come through our doors saying ‘I need help’ are then given a scavenger hunt to perform,” Hale said.