The last episode of #InTheSwarm Season 2 is now available for listening. In this #podcast, Vivek Sridhar and Hemal Naik talk about #lekking in #blackbucks (#antelopes) 😊

The #Lek #Inspectors
Have you ever heard of Blackbucks? Do you know what a 'lek' is? In this episode, we are joined by Dr Vivek Sridhar and Dr Hemal Naik as they tell us the tales of the visually spectacular and extremely rare mating phenomenon that is called 'lekking'.

See Hemal, Vivek and their colleagues at work in India in this fascinating #documentary on their project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i4dX2l6Y-Y

Available on #Spotify, #YouTube and other streaming platforms!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5R0XTwo90gRsQhcIj3rg91

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/public/podcast-in-the-swarm/

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Center for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour #CASCB @cbehav.bsky.social

New publication: Predicted deleterious mutations reveal the genetic architecture of male reproductive success in a #lekking bird. #evolution #genetics #biodiversity
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02802-8

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The lady looks on," showing male theropods lekking to impress a female.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Acrocanthosaurus #Lekking #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld