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Finally, after much sifting and mixing, Ed discovered that oleic acid ? just a teeny drop of it ? was all the ants had to sniff to think "DEAD!" And, because he could ? Ed had a colony parked in his Harvard lab so he could watch them endlessly ? one day he took a drop of the chemical and gently deposited it on an ant that had the misfortune of walking by.
That poor ant is the main subject of our radio story. Ed describes how as soon as he dabbed the ant, the next ant that came near grabbed his ant, slung it on its back, hiked over to the graveyard and though the ant was very much alive ? "kicking, you know," says Ed ? flung it onto the refuse pile.
Dead is what you smell ? not what you see ? if you are an ant. So, though it tried to clean itself over and over, the minute it returned to the colony, it was grabbed, carried and slung back on the pile.
"Didn't you take pity?" I asked Ed. "You started it! Didn't you give it a shower or something?"
"No, I was trying to see if I could create the 'Living Dead,'" he says, while making zombie motions with his head and hands.