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Ants are social insects, meaning they live in colonies where each ant has a certain social role to play, as well as specific chores to carry out. You wouldn't think ants were so interesting, but reading about them to answer this question was fascinating! Anyway, some ants just have the job of taking out the trash. They remove all trash (and this includes the bodies of dead ants) from the colony to whatever is designated as their trash heap. Also, there's some type of European wood ant I was reading about that tends to get involved into long, bloody ant wars. And in those cases, the victorious ants bring the dead ants back and home to eat, because they're rich in protein. But I think that's specific to the one type of ant, rather than general ant behavior.
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