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How to Eliminate Dead Body Within a Colony
In bees, there appears to be a very well organized behavior system for quickly ejecting dead bodies from the nest. And in honey bees, this disposal process tends to happen very fast. Wilkinson also writes about some interesting behaviour in termites. Whereas bees and ants tend to remove the dead bodies or deposit them in a special trash chamber, termites often bury their dead within the nest.
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