Reading the signs

LIFE IS FULL OF HAZARDS FOR EVERY WILD animal – and injuries involving open wounds can often lead to a slow death from infection, unless licking the site alone is sufficient to keep it bacteria-free.

THE BLACK-CAPPED chickadee is wonderfully onomatopoeic. When the diminutive songbird, which is Canada’s answer to the great tit, spots a great-horned owl perched in a tree, it broadcasts a shrill ‘chi

You would be hard pressed to pick Billie the whippet-poodle out in a crowd of his canine contemporaries. Like many young dogs, he is full of beans and capable of melting hearts even when up to mischie

How should noodles be eaten? Who ought to stand for whom? Far from being preserved in aspic, etiquette must evolve to suit modern life, argues William Hanson

Is it wise to go with your gut feeling? Absolutely, say the experts – and the good news is we get better at listening to our instincts as we age

JOANNE JANG SEES HER WORK AS “empowering users to fulfill their goals” right up to the point of not causing harm or infringing on others’ freedoms. “AI-lab employees should not be the arbiters of what