Possible Clues:

• Animal sought as food
• Please sound like such a victim
• 2002 Michael Crichton novel
• Stalked one
• Hunted creature
• Said to plead for help as victim
• Birds of ___
• The chased
• The victim is thus brought to his knees, by the sound of it
• What the victim may do on his knees, by the sound of it