1.   I performed an elaborate mime of a person not eavesdropping, rereading the same paragraph of something in The New Yorker and devouring my eggs Italiano.

2.   Non-native feral hogs devour the eggs of indigenous sea turtles and ground-nesting birds.

3.   The arrival of man and the introduction of pigs and monkeys, which devoured its eggs, doomed the dodo to extinction.

4.   When a mound is overlooked, the animals seize their chance to devour the eggs.