Struggle to dislodge in a heterospecific mating pair consisting of a female Drosophila santomea and male a D. yakuba

A male Red Ring Skirt (Hestina assimilis) tried unsuccessfully to mate with a female feeding on tree sap

Mating behavior of the white-spotted longicorn beete, Anoplophora malasiaca.-1. Male mating trial to a glass-rod treated with female pheromonal extract

A male baikal teal displaying head-pumping in front of a female

Failure in interspecific copulation of Apid bees

Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry