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Paul Pettitt is currently exploring ‘primate thanatology’ – looking for roots and resonance of human behaviour through ethnographic study that embraces other animals’ behaviours. Among chimpanzees, mothers have been seen carrying dead infants around with them; individuals may visit, smell, touch, hit – and sometimes devour – a corpse. There are so

which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It’s like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

She remembers the advertisement for a sunflower cooking oil – ‘A Gentleman’s Cholesterol Is In The Hands Of His Wife’. But then Ousep Chacko is not a man who can be killed by oil. He does not eat much. He smokes a lot, though, which may have thickened his blood, or thinned his arteries, she always forgets which of the two happens. A man’s heart can

I once read a gloomy prescription written by the Greek physician Hippocrates: “Death sits in the bowels; a bad digestion is the root of all evil.” If this is true, I have to assume that the long-lived Provençal bowel is a remarkably efficient item of equipment which, one can logically assume, is a direct result of what it has to deal with on a

It is now estimated that mold digests and destroys more buildings per year than termites and fire combined.