winkling

Chapter 73 I watched Wheezer direct the winkling out of a small shadow that had worked its way up close to the perimeter of One-Eye's safe zone before going into hiding from the light.

If genes truly determine behaviour, surely the fact that chimps share more than 99 per cent of their genes with Homo sapiens should have led to greater abilities than the winkling out of termites with customised twigs.

Dogginson said it was plums; Mr. Wigsby (of Chumbledon Square) said it was oysters; Mr. Magg (of Little Winkling Street) said, amid great cheering, it was the newspapers.