See lek in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1994, M. B. Andersson, Sexual Selection, page 164:",
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"ref": "2000, George Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment In Evolution, page 79:",
"text": "The second reason lekking is so fascinating is because the males aggregate.",
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"text": "2010, Boaz Yuval, Jorge Hendrichs 17: Behavior of Fruit Fly in the Genus Ceratitis (Dacinae: Ceratitidini), Martin Aluja, Allen Norrbom (editors), Fruit Flies (Tephritidae): Phylogeny and Evolution of Behavior, page 437,\nIn a recent study (Yuval et al. 1998), the size and weight of males captured either lekking or resting at the same time in the vicinity of leks were measured."
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"ref": "2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, unnumbered page:",
"text": "Half a dozen of the thumbnail-size males lekked in a sunny glade.",
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"ref": "1992, Mario I. Bléjer, Albania: From Isolation Toward Reform, page 56:",
"text": "With the loss of control by the Government over foreign exchange surrender requirements and the almost complete depletion of foreign exchange reserves, in early 1992 the official rate was further devalued to leks 50 = $1.",
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"text": "1997, Igor Artimiev, Gary J. Fine, Country Studies: Albania, Ira W. Lieberman, Stilpon S. Nestor, Raj M. Desai, Between State and Market: Mass Privatization in Transition Economies, page 178,\nEnterprise shares are sold at voucher auctions in exchange for either immaterial privatization leks (through a bank transfer from the bidder's privatization lek account) or through privatization vouchers, which are submitted at the time of bidding."
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"ref": "2003, Iraj Hoshi, Ewa Balcerowicz, Leszek Balcerowicz, Barriers to Entry and Growth of New Firms in Early Transition, page 253:",
"text": "Value Added Tax is another tax imposed on all enterprises with a yearly turnover of more than 2 million Leks. VAT was introduced in the Albanian tax system in 1995 replacing the old turnover tax.",
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