Why do ants carry back to dead ants to the colony?

Answer 1

Ants are intelligent. They are like humans in some ways. One of the ways is that when they accumulate trash (including dead ants), they move it out of the colony. There is an exception... The European wood ant battles with other colonies in "bloody battles", where the victors take home the ants to feed on, (high source of protein or something...) To bury them. They actually have a cemetery .

Answer 2

Ants have different types of jobs. Some ants gather food, some ants dig tunnels, some ants carry the dead and waste products from their nests and put them in "dumpster" areas. The dead ants give off a certain chemical which attracts ants to carry the bodies to the dumpster area. They do this to keep their areas clean.

Answer 3

yes... they have a wake first where they display the dead in a living room for close ant relatives and neighbours. then after a mourning period of 3 days they gather worker ants to dig a six foot grave in fields that more commonly contain skunks and ferrets. (something to do with the way the soil has been turned)... then they bury the ant, all his possessions and the scariest small child they have ever met... with a straw to breathe thru obvoiusly. (ants are very clever creatures arent they.) then they call in the flying ant squadron each carry 10 times their own body weight in soil to fill in the grave. after a settling period of 10 weeks, one single daisy is planted to mark the grave...

hope that helps. xx

You certainly know you're science. However, you failed to mention that only the rich (usually royalty- the queens and such) are buried properly- as you described. But, unfortunately for the workers and other laymen, they are simply thrown into shallow graves. Relatives are allowed to place a marker on the grave, but they are NOT allowed a daisy, which are only for royalty.

Answer 4

If there is a dead ant from their own colony, they will take it out of their territory and abandon them. If the ant is from a different colony, they will take it home for food.

Answer 5

Nope . normally they mourn their dead.but from what I've seen they don't.

Answer 6

they sometimes carry them away or they take them back to their nest. Leafcutter ants would chuck them in to some water

Answer 7

To bury them. They actually have a cemetery .

Answer 8

Ants will break down discarded fingernails and dead human skin and make it useful. They will likely eat the material once it has been broken down to particles.

Answer 9

turned together

Answer 10

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