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In animal societies, social life often generates male mating harassment. How do communal animals manage such conflicts without escalating antagonistic relationships? In the Sahara Desert, we studied the mating system of gregarious-behaving desert locusts, the world’s most destructive locust. Despite being widespread and abundant during plagues, its populations are otherwise difficult to access, and its reproductive behaviors in the field are understudied. We show that female locusts behaviorally overcome the costs of male mating harassment: females occupy separate sites before and after mating. Only females with ripe ovaries arrive at male-biased lekking groups. Hence, substantial social conflicts can be simply managed by behaviors. These findings invite to explore the evolutionary hypotheses behind lekking with a density-dependent plastic species.
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