Show THE BURYING I Dead Mice and Birds Secreted as Food For Its People often wonder what becomes of the dead mice and dead though birds and mice are constantly dying in large hardly one is to The fact is that they are buried by Buchner gives a brief account of them as follows of them unite together to bury under the as food and shelter for their some dead such a a a a The burial is performed because the if left above would either dry up or rotten or be eaten by other In all these cases the young would whereas the dead body lying in the earth and withdrawn from the outer air lasts very burying beetles go to work in a very well considered for they scrape away the garth lying under the body so that it sinks of itself deeper and it is deep enough it is covered over from If the situation is the with united forces and great drag the corpse to some place more suitable for They work so diligently that a for is buried within three But they often work on for so as to bury the body as deeply as Prom large such as those of they only bury pieces as large as they can There can be no doubt of the intelligence of these strange as a gentleman discovered in a rather curious He desired to dry a dead and for that purpose he fastened it upon the top of an upright The burying were soon attracted by the finding that they could not reach the they undermined the causing it to fall with the which was then duly Our Animal |