Dead or alive? Living ants chemically signal their vitality

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Dead or alive? Living ants chemically signal their vitality

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/ ... 2009-05-05

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Ants are notoriously efficient in their undertaking, carrying off their dead nestmates before the corpses can infect the colony with their pathogens. But how do the worker ants responsible for shuttling their deceased comrades' bodies out of the nest tell live ants from dead?
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