Video 2. A mother Japanese badger, Meles anakuma, collecting fallen leaves for nesting materials and bringing them into the sett

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

Osaka Museum of Natural History

Movie Archives of Animal Behavior

Black-tailed gulls, collecting nesting materials

Osaka Museum of Natural History

Movie Archives of Animal Behavior

JOURNEY TO CHINA 7: CHINESE MARRIAGE. The angler's skill in setting his lines, the hunter's artfulness in taking game, the horse-dealer's tricks to hide the redhibitory defects of his horse, nothing is comparable to the skill, the artfulness, the trick which a mother deploys in order to marry her daughter... the poor Chinese men mistrust the lures, of honey and of glue, to no avail, someone always falls into the maternal snare

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan

JOURNEY TO CHINA 19: CHINESE WORRIORS. All Chinese men have the right, from six to eight times a year, to carry a rifle, a cartridge-pouch, and even to wear a fur cap; then they apply themselves, more or less voluntarily to night patrols which have as their goal the maintenance of public peace. Only it happens quite often that the chief named KA-PO-RAL takes infinite trouble to prevent his warriors singing at the tops of their voices “mother GO-DI-CHON” or other Chinese ballads, and it is by waking with a start that the good citizens learn that their rest is being watched over

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Union Catalog of the Collections of the National Art Museums, Japan