Flutterby™! : mating lizards and geeks

Last night's As It Happens has an interview with Kelly Zamudio who's been researching mating patterns of the side-blotched lizard (scroll down). The interesting bit is that although three different sorts live in the same area none has triumphed over the other two because their mating strategies play a sort of "rock-paper-scissors" against each other, one's territorial, one's mate guarding, the third's sneaky and has coloring more like the females so it can sneak behind the other two. When I heard this I was immediately reminded of yesterday's SF Gate advice that techie guys should dress like gay men.