In time the black ants of the veld build mountains and devour the carcass of the elephant.

Then the ants set upon the dead bodies and devoured them and the road was open again and the black river flowed on.

The ants devoured the buffalo.

When I retrieved the pieces I discovered that the small ants living in the roof had all but devoured them, leaving me with no rations.

The population gone, the wind and the rain would howl through the deserted dwellings, the white ants would devour the supporting beams, the elephants would rub their colossal forms against the already tottering houses, and decay would proceed with a rapidity unknown in a cooler clime.

For three days a guard was posted at the ant hills to keep sorcerers away; by then the ants would have devoured all traces of the ritual.

The basement of the raised hall inside the temple has the Patala Lingam, where Ramana attained supreme awareness while ants devoured his flesh.