A male fiddler crab captured a female and took her into his burrow

Unhappy interaction between male and female fiddler crab: vol.2

Unhappy interaction between male and female fiddler crab: vol.1

A crab coming out of a hole

Encountering when a male visited the territory of a female

Courtship display of male Northern Pintails, and submerging of a female for escape

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

NEWS 80: Achilles Véron retiring to his tent

Video 7. A mother Japanese badger (Meles anakuma) collecting fallen leaves as nesting materials and carrying them to the entrance of the sett before a male offspring carried them into the sett

Backward crawling into sand by the pit-building antlion Myrmeleon bore

Video1. A male offspring (delayed disperser) of the Japanese badger, Meles anakuma, digging the sett and scraping soil out

Backward crawling into sand by the non-pit-building antlion Synclisis japonica

A male Japanese badger offspring, Meles anakuma, and his mother entering the sett together to dig the burrow by scraping the soil from the inside and carrying it out of the sett

Video 6. A mother Japanese badger (Meles anakuma) bringing fallen leaves as nesting materials in the sett, followed by a male offspring bringing tree branches as nesting materials into the sett

Observation record of a male Ashy Minivet Pericrocotus divaricatus divaricatus carrying nest materials into the nest of Asian Brown Flycatchers Muscicapa dauurica in Hokkaido, northern Japan

Ancient History 15: Aeneas and Dido: A protective fog obscured the heavens; / And as they found themselves without an umbrella, / Leading his friend into a dark cave, / Aeneas on that beautiful day saw his ardours consummated (Aeneid. corrected by Mr. Villemain)

Video 5. Three Japanese badgers, Meles anakuma, digging together in the sett. A mother badger entered the sett and dug out the soil, and two male offspring carried the scraped soil and nesting materials out of the sett. The cub present did not partake in the digging

Ancient History 29: Telemachus and Mentor. Seeing his languorous pupil. / Burning for Eucharis with a fire always new / Mentor, with a punch, pitched him straight into the water / To make him abandon the island (Unique quatrain by Mr. Duponchel)

Ancient History 39: Leander. Each night, clad in little, but in galant fashion, / And counting upon his arms of iron, / He crossed an arm of sea / To throw himself into those of his lover (Byron, very mixed poems)

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 4: 10 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING: Mr. Coquelet having met in the Botanical Gardens Miss Palissandre to whom he had the honour of offering a pink pompon on the 1st of May 1804, has secured a meeting, and having gone to the expense of a pair of gloves for 29 sous, glances into his mirror before setting out on the amourous adventure

French Types 2: The tailor: He walks with an arched back, his shoulders like a coat-stand and his elbows turned outwards. His suits, cut in the latest fashion, often clash with his boots and hat, he nearly always has a very euphonical name such as Wahaterkermann or Pikprunmann

Affectation 8: (He reads a letter) A meeting, it could be from that little Mrs. Giraud!... yes... but perhaps it's from her husband who wants to nab me and give me a thrashing

Parisian Freebooters 6: The Umbrella-trick: The freebooter takes advantage of the storm [,] going about it in the manner you see [here]... he pushes his umbrella into the face of a passer-by and seizes his victim's Watch, Purse or Pocket-book

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 7: ONE O'CLOCK: A walk in the Luxembourg: Go on scoundrel. gulp it down! you'll see what it's like to be thrown into the water by a r... r... r... ras... scal like you!!

Album des Charges du Jour : A difficult position. －Pulled about between civilisation and the retrograde party