I worked for MI6 in the Sixties during the great witch-hunts when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
With any child entering adolescence one hunts for signs of health is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf which hunts in a pack has a greater chance of survival than the lion which hunts alone.