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carefully bury carcasses left on the soil. As soon as they smell a 
field-mouse, a mole, or a fish in a state of decomposition, they 
come by troops to bury it, getting under the carcass, hollowing 
out the ground with their legs, and projecting the rubbish they 
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Fig. 452.—Chiasognathus Grantii. 
dig out in all directions. Little by little the carcass sinks; at 
the end of twenty-four hours it has generally disappeared into 
a hole five inches in depth, but the Necrophori sink it still lower 
—as far as from seven to ten inches below the surface. They 
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