2007-06-09 04:52:03 · 12 answers · asked by ♠ 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Because ants really do form armies. Ants actually form colonies that handle finding food and carrying it away, groups that dig to make homes in the dirt, groups that handle and protect babies and even groups that carry away their dead and debris. I saw it on Discovery and payed attention.
Interestingly enough, they were more responsible than some humans I've seen! lol
2007-06-09 04:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 11⤊ 1⤋
Basicly ants carry their dead to a "refuse" pile outside of the colony. Or like ANY good soldier "nobody gets left behind" theory must be true for ants too. But as far as I know ants are very intellegent because they know bacteria and other fungus etc. would or could form due to the decay from their dead.
Hope it helped,
trucknmedic
2007-06-09 05:06:58 · answer #2 · answered by trucknmedic 2 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Ants are very chemically prone. Their lives are regimented with the aid of minute lines of numerous chemical ingredients. whilst an ant dies from previous age, often some months from start, it emitts Oleic acid which in ant language interprets to "dumpster cloth" . The ant dumpster is exterior the nest around the front the place you in many situations see cloth from interior the nest. that is waste ingredients alongside with ant poop and lifeless bodies plus different floor and organic and organic cloth not needed with the aid of the female worker ants.Male ants do not do any artwork.
2016-11-09 22:03:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two days after death, the tiny ant corpse begins emitting a chemical called oleic acid. To an ant, the smell of oleic acid equals death. The experience of death is not a sense of loss, not a dead body, not an ascent to ant afterlife- it is simply oleic acid. As soon as the living ants smell the oleic acid smell, they spring into action, carrying the tiny decaying intruder out of their midst and dumping it into the pile.
2015-07-03 13:28:16 · answer #4 · answered by Josh 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Besides ants carrying the dead members away to prevent disease and as a way to keep the colony clean of refuse, they don't want a scent trail left behind to attract enemies that would eat and destroy the whole colony.
2007-06-09 08:26:43 · answer #5 · answered by kriend 7 · 8⤊ 3⤋
once they die they secret an acid that tells the other ants there dead and they drag them away. if you were to soak a live ant in the substance they would drag him away kicking and screaming because of the smell.
2015-07-03 13:12:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
waste not want not ,Ants are very economical ,they carry all bodies around
to be processed
2007-06-09 10:59:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
They are taking them to nurse. Ants have many jobs.
2007-06-09 06:26:21 · answer #8 · answered by Soccermaster 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
i know this is silly answer n probably it's wrong. To burry them?
Because ants has a great team work
2007-06-09 05:01:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 6⤋
maybe that's is for the possession of the deads!
they will soon bury it and mourn!
2007-06-09 04:59:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋