Female #1 spent most of her time observing the males displaying, grooming, and foraging, while female #2 spent most her time on the
lek either actively soliciting males by walking around their territories or by standing at the center of the
lek in the solicitation pose.
The researchers found that in the area where the two manakin species come together, females are attracted to yellow-collared males more than to white-collared males, but only when there are lots of other yellow males within
leks.
Effects of
lek disturbances on lesser prairie chickens.
DRINK UP: Saloon Bar by Karel
Lek A RAINY DAY: Llandudno Promenade by Karel
Lek SUNSHINE SCENE: Summer in the Valley by John Cooper OUT TO DRY: Washday in the Valley by John Cooper.
It is not known if this inherent variation in burrow design is related to or influenced by the botanical structure present on the
lek site.
Nematode egg loads of male sharp-tailed grouse that occupied central territories on
leks (mating areas) were not significantly different from those of birds in peripheral territories, nor were they different between adult males and yearlings.
Active
leks were detected at 15 of 52 monitoring sites north of US380 in Chaves County, but no
lek was detected at 688 monitoring sites south of US380 in Chaves, Eddy or Lea counties during 2000.
Married for eight years, it was a long and tedious process from the first day Ron saw
Lek serving as a waitress in her brother's restaurant, next to his university in Bangkok, until they walked down the aisle together.
The notion of any female
lek seems "very surprising but not impossible," says George F.
These factors suggest that
lek behavior is an integral component of the reproductive repertoire of selected Uca spp.
Readers will be interested to know the format was successfully adapted to form the basis of the hit Albanian show Who Wants To Be A
Lek Millionaire?
Sexual selection,
lek and arena behavior and size dimorphism in birds.
