Dawkins in "the Extended Phenotype" argues that manipulation such as 'Sexual Mind Control' is very common in nature. One of examples that he gives is a female cricket that is 'programmed' to react to a male song. He writes:

'The object's internal chain of command — sense organs, nervous system, muscles — may be infiltrated and subverted. A male cricket does not physically roll a female along the ground and into his burrow. He sits and sings, and the female comes to him under her own power. From his point of view this communication is energetically more efficient than trying to take her by force.'