edgar,,good one..except i am being left to medical science..for prodding poking and study...merle 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 - > >
