The former was physical, animalistic and violent, involving young people wearing hoods and masks to cover their faces.

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There was a lot of just 'not-even-thinking, ' sort of animalistic, you know, thought.

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The immediate reaction is the old brain, and the old brain functions in its own traditional, accepted, reactionary, animalistic sense.

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We watch videos of seemingly normal people pummel one another in animalistic feeding frenzies just to get their hands on phones, socks and microwaves.

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"I remember being down on the ground and getting to my place of true, true fear, that pain that is so deep and animalistic in a way, " Ms. Page says.

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But there might be an even more animalistic explanation why a cloudless sky buoys us up: "When it's good weather there's much more flesh on show, which cheers most people up, " says Dr Workman.

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The animalistic mutilation of our soldiers and the calls of "Death to the Jews" that are now echoed in the Arab world have raised the eyebrows of even the most ardent supporters of compromise.

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In one series, he would use the paintbrush to wreak havoc on the conventions of art (refusing to sign his work, finishing his work with excrement-like smears, reducing the human form to its most base, animalistic qualities: all inflated genitals and distorted angles).

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One becomes less animalistic.

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