I think a living human who smelled like a rotting corpse would be forced to go away from other people too.

Could you imagine the confusion if you are used to it though... you've considered this scent to mean dead your whole life. would be kind of like as a human noticing your heart isn't beating, your skin is pale... realizing you are in a coffin and everyone's performing a service... hmm... guess I am dead. course I guess that's kind of the difference is humans aren't so accepting of things. we could be unable to move, realize we are looking from the perspective of our head, which is on the ground 2' away from the rest of our body and our first thought would be, "Hey can you hear me? Hello!!.

smells itself

eh I guess I died....

You have a spray bottle of oleic acid

Who do you spray: Trump, JD Vance, RFK jr or Caroline Leavitt

I wonder what will happen if they put that chemical into an insecticide spray.

E.O. Wilson is a monster scientist. His book "The Ants" is mind-bogglingly thorough

"I swear I'm not dead!"

"Yea we don't care, you smell dead and it's disgusting, leave until you take a bath"

fist time in earth history to get a day off

why doesn't the ant that was sprayed on carry itself away.

Moving means partly alive, but partly alive means mostly dead, so off you go!

"Ed Wilson"

More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.

Read his book "The Social Conquest of Earth" if this intrigues you.

What the hell happened to the ant? My god I dislike cliffhangers.