Your behaviour was cunning, persistent, manipulative and cruel".
Pétanque is thus a game of dexterity and technique, but also of gamesmanship, bad behaviour and sheer animal cunning.
These cunning tactics pale in comparison to the behaviour of one newly-discovered octopus species.
Without the benefit of experimental subjects who can explain their thinking, however, Dr Clayton and her colleagues will have to develop ever more cunning experiments to infer complex mental processes from simple behaviour.
CRITICS of Argentina's government have two main explanations for the behaviour of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administration: cunning conspiracy or bumbling incompetence.
Mr Ahern, whom his mentor, the late and now infamous former taoiseach, Charles Haughey, once described as "the most skilful, the most devious, the most cunning of them all", later apologised to the nation for his unacceptable behaviour.
While wolverines are cunning carnivores, they are as likely to be playful, nurturing, and at times overcome by behaviour-altering fear.
Even if this "cooling-off" period is extended to two years, as one bill suggests, it will hardly change the behaviour of legislators who know where their next pay-cheque is coming from.One of the most potent and cunning lobbying tactics of the past decade, grassroots campaigning, will also probably escape oversight.
The basic idea was developed by F.P. Ramsey (1928a, 182), who pointed out that if a subject's behaviour violated axioms of probability and preference, then "[h]e could have a book made against him by a cunning better and would then stand to lose in any event".
