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 flies off together. Another example: Researchers in Botswana have observed that when African wild dogs are deciding where to hunt, one dog will rise to its feet, move in one direction, then sneeze. If a majority of dogs get up and sneeze in agreement, the entire pack goes. Reena Walker, who helped conduct the Botswana study, believes this research will help us better understand how animals communicate. Says Walker: “We discovered how amazingly complex this social behavior is.”