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        The male of Platystoma seminationis as the next step also places his feet at the inner rim of the female's eyes. The couple remains like this for a while. Then, the female bends her head upward. | 
         
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         They start to put out their proboscises: the male downward, the female steeply upward.  | 
        
         
          
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        Their ends meet and remain in touch. | 
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Photographs by José Verkest, text by Maria Pfeifer  |