Ilide Carmignani and Elena Battista have compiled a list of idioms which, by featuring animals, convey the joys, hardships, disappointments, enthusiasm or mistrust that we experience every day, whatever language we speak

I rise and switch on the light. He lies down on the floor. I switch it off, and there he is again, on the alert. Blessed are cats: free to see the invisible.

After years of genetic research, an international team of researchers has identified a previously unrecorded variety. The ‘cryptic species’ lives at an altitude of more than 1,500 metres in the forests of Bolivia