Sometimes only one, often two, three or four, rarely more, busy themselves with the dead creature which I offer them.

To-day two hasten to the Mouse, who is soon perceived overhead in the tuft of thyme.
They gain the summit of the plant by way of the wire trellis of the cage.

Here are repeated, with increased hesitation, due to the inconvenient nature of the support, the tactics employed to remove the body when the soil is unfavourable.

The insect props itself against a branch, thrusting alternately with back and claws, jerking and shaking vigorously until the point where at it is working is freed from its fetters.

In one brief shift, by dint of heaving their backs, the two collaborators extricate the body from the entanglement of twigs.