Ants have graveyards.....
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Two days after an
ant dies, it gives off an odor
that lets the other ants
know it is dead. The ants
then pick it up and carry it
to a graveyard.

Before that point, its corpse
is ignored. The odor is oleic
acid. Scientists dropped
some on a living ant, and
against its will it was
carried to the graveyard.

The interesting thing is that
the ant was clearly alive but
the others were ignoring its
squirming and attempts to
escape, showing that the
smell overrides everything
else.

To ants, if you smell dead,
you are dead. But why do
they do this? As you know,
corpses are pretty ripe
sources of bacteria, and ant
colonies are very highly
concentrated in population.

That means it’s important
for them to designate a
graveyard and carry the
dead there to avoid thebacteria spreading.



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