[klyrs]

The article notes that bees cooperate through direct democracy, as they probably have done long before Greeks uttered the word.

[sashenka]

I meant why would humans grant democratic rights to anything that isn't human.

[klyrs]

History has plenty of examples of expanding suffrage to people once considered non-persons. The article lists a few examples of precedent of non-humans being recognized as persons in a handful of countries.