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This meeting explores the variation in reproductive behaviour across the taxonomic spectrum.
Animal societies have evolved many ingenious ways to pass their genes on to the next generation, aside from simple male-female pair-bonding. Understanding the evolution and maintenance of these strategies provides fascinating insights into animal behaviour as well as information on mating systems that is crucial for species conservation.
Alternative reproductive strategies can result in intriguing levels of organisation, such as individuals waiting their turn in a queue to become a breeder, or clever methods of avoiding detection by a host in order to parasitise another individual’s nesting resources.
This meeting explores the variation in reproductive behaviour across the taxonomic spectrum, using examples from insects, birds and mammals to illustrate the diversity in strategies of gene propagation found in the animal kingdom.
Organised by Dr Seirian Sumner and Dr Jakob Bro-Jorgensen, Institute of Zoology, ZSL
IMAGE CREDITS: food-sharing wasps: Kathryn Booth; Red deer: Jakob Bro-Jorgensen
Speaker(s): |
Professor Jeremy Field, Sussex University | talks | www |
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Date and Time: |
11 December 2007 at 6:00 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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Venue: |
London Zoo's Meeting Rooms |
Organised by: |
The Zoological Society of London |
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Tickets: |
Admission is free and everyone is welcome! |
Available from: |
There will be a 3-course dinner with the speakers following this Scientific Meeting. For further information or to book places, please contact joy.hayward@zsl.org or call 020 7449 6227. |
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