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Practice Reading: Reading and Writing Fill in the Blanks ID: #51204 Voter
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Researchers  have    that  improving  voter  turnout  tends  to  result  in  better      at  least  amongst  fish.  A  recent  study  of    found  that  they  select  a  leader  by  consensus  and,  the  more  fish  in  the  pool,  the  more  likely  they'll  make  a  good  choice.  In  the  experiment,  a  school  of  fish  was  presented  with  two  mock    for  leader.  One  of  the  fake  fish  swam  left,  the  other  right.  The  pack  of  real  fish  was  then  allowed  to  decide  which  leader  to  follow.    to  the  study,  which  was  published  recently  in  the  journal  Current  Biology,  the  stickleback  tended  to  follow  the  candidate  that  looked  the  healthiest.  Larger  or  fatter  fish,  for  example,  were  usually  chosen  over  smaller  fish.  Fish  with  spotsoften  a  telltale  sign  of  disease  generally  lost  out  to  a  non-spotty  adversary.  The  fish  also  seemed  to  have  a  preference  for  a  more  richly  colored  candidate,  though  the  researchers  say  they  have  yet  to  determine  why.  Maybe  his  environmental  record  won  them  over?

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