{"id":29765,"date":"2022-02-03T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/how-animals-treat-their-dead#id31359"},"modified":"2022-02-03T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T03:30:00","slug":"for-much-of-human-history-in-fact-until-2010-there-has-been-little-consideration-as-to-how-animals-treat-their-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/for-much-of-human-history-in-fact-until-2010-there-has-been-little-consideration-as-to-how-animals-treat-their-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"For much of human history\u2014in fact, until 2010\u2014there has been little consideration as to how animals treat their dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Ants perform &ldquo;necrophoresis,&rdquo; which is when they remove dead ants from their nests&#8230; What the ants are detecting is not the concept of death but a chemical called oleic acid that dead ants produce. It&rsquo;s been shown that if you put oleic acid on any object in the nest, other ants will remove it.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/5dg57q\/do-animals-understand-what-it-means-to-die\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Motherboard<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/how-animals-treat-their-dead\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Ants perform &ldquo;necrophoresis,&rdquo; which is when they remove dead ants from their nests&#8230; What the ants are detecting is not the concept of death but a chemical called oleic acid that dead ants produce. It&rsquo;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29766,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29765\/revisions\/29766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}