How Animals Vote.

• Position: WILDLIFE

This fall, millions of Americans will cast their ballots for president. But experts say humans aren't the only living creatures that vote. Recent studies have revealed that a wide variety of animal species routinely take action through group decisions. Consider honeybees, for example. Experts have found that when a bee colony needs a new place to live, scouts perform dances to communicate the quality of the sites they've discovered and where they're located. In time, one scout will convince the others that she has found the best place--and the other scouts will switch their dances to match hers. Once all the scouts agree, the entire colony...