Such a goal will be tricky because, among many other reasons, animals are no great observers of human boundaries.
But everything it has to say about class, masculinity and the tricky relations among different kinds of people in a proudly diverse and liberal metropolis is embedded in details of character and place.
The tricky connections among hunger, poor performance in school, violence, social pathologies and access to healthy food all came up, and hunger apparently is most sensitive to changes in employment.
Divining who in the Kremlin has the president's ear is tricky; but among them, says Mr Mirsky, are some who are schooled to befriend "any thug in the world who declared himself anti-American".There are some, says Mr Simes, who feel Mr Putin and his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, were too obliging to America over Kosovo, Iraq and America's incursions in Central Asia.
The ingredients include risks that are erroneously thought to be vanishingly small, complex technology that isn't fully grasped by either top management or regulators, and tricky relationships among companies that are not sure how much they can count on their partners.
Its voice command system was superior to the one in the Lexus, never once flubbing one of my demands, expertly routing me, via the navigation system, to places with tricky names — among them the restaurants Musso & Frank and Republique.
Other problems are trickier, especially among true friends and family members.
How Uber is making transportation more affordable, and trying to change its default reaction to controversies and navigating other tricky areas are among the topics he covered.
Sacramento Bureau Chief John Myers leads a discussion on this week's California Politics Podcast that looks at the tricky tobacco negotiations among Democrats, as well as discussions about other big bills and the leadership team chosen by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon.
Among the tricky challenges the team had to solve was how to keep objects from sticking to the bottom of the bath.
