"Fight for survival"!???
Apparently ptarmigans ain't too schmartz. If they had any brains they would form a union and make all the beautiful lagomorpha, gyrfalcons, goshawks, ermines and DUmmies toil for them and reap the spoils as they chillaxed on the veranda sipping mint juleps.
Alas, ptarmigans have not the wit of even the lemmings and so they are relegated to hiding and quivering amongst the drifts and briars, wretched vermin that they are...

A head this small just doesn't hold much gray matter
