1975, Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, figure caption, 2000, page 333, Each of the three displaying cocks occupies a small territory at the mating center of the lek.
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Lek
//lɛk//
Synonyms for "lek"
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27 translations across 14 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- lek noun (currency of Albania)
- leku noun (currency of Albania)
Armenian
1 entries- լեկ noun (currency of Albania)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 列克 noun (currency of Albania)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 列克 noun (currency of Albania)
Finnish
4 entries- lek noun (currency of Albania)
- soidin noun (an aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display)
- olla soitimella verb (to take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek)
- soidintaa verb (to take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek)
German
3 entries- Balzarena noun (an aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display)
- Lek noun (an aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display)
- Lek noun (currency of Albania)
Greek
1 entries- λεκ noun (currency of Albania)
Hungarian
1 entries- lek noun (currency of Albania)
Norwegian
1 entries- spill noun (an aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- lek noun (an aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display)
- lek noun (currency of Albania)
Polish
2 entries- lek noun (currency of Albania)
- tokować verb (to take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek)
Russian
3 entries- лек noun (currency of Albania)
- ток noun (an aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display)
- токова́ть verb (to take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- lek noun (currency of Albania)
Swedish
4 entries- lek noun (an aggregation of male animals for the purposes of courtship and display)
- lek noun (currency of Albania)
- leka verb (to take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek)
- spela verb (to take part in the courtship and display behaviour of a lek)
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Given that a combination of factors have "released" males from attending nests, why have some species organized their courtship bouts in leks, especially the tightly clumped leks that are typical of manakins and cocks-of-the-rock?
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Nevertheless, it does appear that many of the processes of mate choice and sexual selection described for bird and mammal leks also apply to anuran choruses.
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Males in many lekking species have conspicuous morphological ornaments that may be targets of female choice, but male contest competition may also be involved.
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