CoolHunk:
Interesting, but I can't spot any science behind this post.

Deejacy2:
Why Ants Carry the Bodies of their fellow Dead Ants, Have you ever wondered what Ants used these bodies for? This brings me to my short little story. When I was a child, I was filled with so much curiosity, I wanted to know more about them. I will always sit by their house or should I say hole and quietly hide and wait to see what they were up to. I must say they are really amazing creatures. Do you know, they actually perform a funeral for their loved ones? The Queen and other aunts will just gather round the bodies of the dead ants pay their last respect and then they head for the cemetery. I made a research today to confirm all this. Please Learn and Enjoy.

It makes evolutionary sense to move debris out of your tunnels, to recognize dead ants as things that need to be carried away so they don't block a passage or spread disease. Ant colonies (generically speaking) have a garbage dump on the outskirts of the colony. Trash, poo, and dead members of the colony are put in the dump. Interestingly, the ants that work in the dump are the oldest members of the colony. Dump worker is sort of your retirement job as an ant since you're close to death and will end up there anyway. So why carry dead ants to the dump if they die outside of the nest?

Most of what ants do is hardwired into their tiny little brains: instinct. I speculate that they don't differentiate between in the nest and outside of the nest when they come across a dead member of their colony on a trail. A worker running along a trail comes upon another dead worker and the instinct to move it to the dump just clicks in. Compiled by Edidiong J Uwah.

Deejacy2:
Why Ants Carry the Bodies of their fellow Dead Ants, Have you ever wondered what Ants used these bodies for? This brings me to my short little story. When I was a child, I was filled with so much curiosity, I wanted to know more about them. I will always sit by their house or should I say hole and quietly hide and wait to see what they were up to. I must say they are really amazing creatures. Do you know, they actually perform a funeral for their loved ones? The Queen and other aunts will just gather round the bodies of the dead ants pay their last respect and then they head for the cemetery. I made a research today to confirm all this. Please Learn and Enjoy.

It makes evolutionary sense to move debris out of your tunnels, to recognize dead ants as things that need to be carried away so they don't block a passage or spread disease. Ant colonies (generically speaking) have a garbage dump on the outskirts of the colony. Trash, poo, and dead members of the colony are put in the dump. Interestingly, the ants that work in the dump are the oldest members of the colony. Dump worker is sort of your retirement job as an ant since you're close to death and will end up there anyway. So why carry dead ants to the dump if they die outside of the nest?

Most of what ants do is hardwired into their tiny little brains: instinct. I speculate that they don't differentiate between in the nest and outside of the nest when they come across a dead member of their colony on a trail. A worker running along a trail comes upon another dead worker and the instinct to move it to the dump just clicks in. Compiled by Edidiong J Uwah.

rOsy247:
ant is one tiny creature i hv always admired right from childhood. i enjoy watching them. their industrious nature is one thing that baffles me abt this tiny creature. no wonder the bible admonished the lazy people to learn from the ant.

ggrin:
Too much cartoons

Smartsyn:
wait untill soidier ants attack you, you ll lost your admiration for those 'tiny creatures'..

TFLAME:
Interesting

fadjnr:
To buttress you observation, the ants don't usually recognise that their "comrade" is dead until about 2days later, this is due to the fact that the dead ant begins to emit what is called oleic acid which is an indicator that the ants are dead and decaying , thus instinctively they carry the dead to the dump site.

Jinyjagz:
dey also fight war and dey av hospitals,since dey av soldier ants and nurse ants