Where do ants carry away their dead and why do they do so?

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I noticed after putting some ant traps that the ants that die get carried away by their brethren but where do they take them and why

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Just a distance from the hive. “Away”. Other trash goes there too.

Ant corpses are unsanitary for ants in very much the same way that human corpses are unsanitary for humans. They rot and diseases fester in them that can affect the living.

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