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Do ants have cemeteries
After 2 days after an ant dies, his body begins to smell of oleic acid. Up to this point the rest of the ants ignored the corpse, but as soon as he whiff, he was immediately raised and carry the "cemetery" - a place remote enough from the nest. Apparently, the ants know that the body - the source of all kinds of infection and try to protect your home from harmful bacteria. Ants react only to the smell: one for experimental biologists oleic acid dripped on the living ant, and his brothers force dragged him away from the colony, despite vigorous attempts at resistance.
via factroom.ru
