「we knew it was difficult to recover a body, because any corpse left in the wild will be eaten, but we thought we could learn the name of the man,」 musole said.
once the signal is in the air, any ant that happens by grabs the corpse and carries it through the colony to a refuse pile designated the graveyard and dumps it on a mound of also-dead ants.
but the louisiana board of embalmers and funeral directors has ordered him to 「cease and desist」. heaven knows what harm a corpse might suffer from an unlicensed coffin.