Merle,
I agree. I opt for a sky burial up on top of my hill I've named Vulture Peak
where the vultures soar around all day. That way I get to soar around with the
vultures all day too after I die...
Edgar
On Jun 23, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Merle Lester wrote:
>
>
> joe..
> do some research on ants..and if the ants did eat their dead... so what.?..
> maybe we need to take a leaf out of their book...our graveyards are absurd...
> our funeral rites are plain silly
> give me a Tibetan funeral any day of the week
> why waste all that good quality protein?
> merle
>
> Edgar,
>
> That's interesting.
>
> I see that it may take as much (long) as three days for the distasteful Oleic
> acid to form after an ant's death.
>
> The ant bodies I saw being carried back to the anthills were bodies of ants
> recently killed in battles with ants of other colonies. The battles and
> their casualties are what made a high flux of bodies being carried back even
> at all noticeable to me, in my observations of this going-on.
>
> I've seen this behavior in colonies in NJ, and in AZ, in both large red and
> black and colonies, and in colonies of the small brown ants.
>
> Maybe an ant body just a short time after killing is indeed palatable food;
> otherwise, I don't know why ants would bring them to the anthill and down
> inside, as they visibly do.
>
> --Joe
>
>> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>>
>> Most ant species, particularly the ones we are most exposed to, do not
>> practice cannibalism -
>
>
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