Talk about ruffling feathers.  A team in Israel has uncovered a petite clay figurine — barely the size of a postage stamp — that seems to immortalize a goose making an indecent proposal to a woman.  Dug up from a long-lost settlement in the country’s north, the cheeky artifact could be the oldest known example of human–animal hanky-panky.  Laurent Davin of Hebrew University explained to the Daily Mail that encounters between animal spirits and humans pop up often in animistic cultures — usually