Filthy Animals

Filthy Animals Podcast

Filthy Animals is a sex, drugs, and ecology podcast for grown-ups. Every month, science educators discuss unusual adult activities of the natural world that your high school science teacher was too embarrassed to talk about.

This podcast features hosts Rachel Roth, Nicole Brown, and Allan Saylor of Kansas-based nonprofit Grassland Groupies.

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Filthy Animals

Filthy Animals is a sex, drugs, and ecology podcast for grown-ups. Every month, science educators discuss the unusual adult activities of the natural world that your high school science teacher was too embarrassed to talk about.

This podcast features hosts Rachel Roth, Nicole Brown, and Allan Saylor of Kansas-based nonprofit Grassland Groupies.

Content Warning: explicit language, descriptions of sex, pretty wholesome episode honestly

Dancing, fighting, spreading sweet-smelling pheromones… all in the name of love. Lekking is a strange behavior that is a bit paradoxical in its hyper-competition but birds, frogs, bees, and even a few mammals all make it work. A male buffet where females have their pick of the best male, or perhaps a swanky second, and the males really don’t do much else but fight and dance.

Allan’s Sources:

Kempenaers, Bart. (2022). Mating systems in birds. Current Biology. 32. R1115-R1121. 10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.066.
Kirkpatrick, M., Ryan, M. The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek. Nature350, 33–38 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/350033a0
Rathore A, Isvaran K, Guttal V. 2023 Lekking as collective behaviour. Phil.Trans. R. Soc. B 378: 20220066. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0066

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