Expedition into the Queer Kingdom

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As part of Pride Month, the South Tyrol Museum of Nature hosts a lecture exploring the remarkable diversity of sex, reproduction and social relationships in the animal kingdom.

Biologist and environmental journalist Ismeni Walter takes the audience on a journey through the animal world, presenting examples that challenge simplified notions of biological "normality": anemonefish capable of changing sex, male seahorses that carry pregnancies, dolphins with complex social bonds, and species whose individuals possess both male and female reproductive organs. The examples range from invertebrates to mammals, illustrating the many different strategies nature has developed over the course of evolution.

The lecture accompanies the ongoing photography exhibition "Queer Nature Photography Awards", currently on display at the museum, which presents ten internationally awarded nature photographs documenting the variety of behaviours, reproductive strategies and social structures in the animal kingdom.

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