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In the final days of empire, the colony is at its most vulnerable; and the Queen meets her final grisly end.
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Natural World: Empire Of The Desert Ants
Against the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona, Empire of the Desert Ants takes an in-your-face look at the violent world of desert honey ants by charting the fate of a single colony over several years as they battle all-comers for survival and dominance over the small patch of desert that is their world. Both the big picture and every minute detail are captured in this dramatic and fascinating film using the latest camera techniques and visual effects. Macro-photography shows the heart of their epic confrontations and the very core of life in the honey ant colony. Battle plans, defensive strategies and 'team' tactics are presented using the latest battlefield technologies. Also revealed are parallel worlds dominated by hidden forces - chemical weaponry, ultra-sonic sound, pheromones, ultra-violet and polarised light - as well as detailed characterisations of the different members of the colony.
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[@alinelks2599]

Opened the video for curiosity, stayed for the dramatic narration.

[@sharondalewis1620]

Yeah, I like the slow mo wing flapping lol

[@Penelope416]

I know! Dude got a good voice. He sounded so into it!

[@Caramelnapkin]

You know it’s about to be good when there’s dramatic narration

[@kimlane7157]

@@Caramelnapkin don't assume.

[@masterchief4189]

Yah

[@slash3503]

crazy to think that battles like this happen every day just outside your house. It's been a long war for over a full year now, these are war torn battle grounds. Enter at your own risk for you have been warned.

[@mohammedqadir1913]

s l a s h lol

[@joesmith5159]

when people say there is a god i tell them to watch these crazy animal/insect videos

[@Axxxel_in_Harlem]

@@joesmith5159 ...And? They further prove that GOD exists. This is sooo intricately designed, there's no way all of this came out of nowhere.

[@danielcastaneda2983]

@@Axxxel_in_Harlem which God? Or is it THE GOD?

[@Axxxel_in_Harlem]

@@danielcastaneda2983 There's only 1 GOD. It's pointless to use "The" here.

[@eriana1147]

Me: Having a nice picnic. Ants: Battling over water, Beheading the queen, taking children for later consumption.

[@atario7824]

„Beheading the queen“ Where have I seen this before?

[@Liuhuayue]

@@atario7824 Basically European medieval history in a nutshell...

[@Humanaut.]

Well, all of this happens to humans as well and we are connected to it via geopolitics and the global market. E.g. Displacement of war zones, human exploitation for resource extraction for western/indulstrialized countries use. Slavery/sex trafficking of refugees. Power struggles by corrupt governments/cartels etc. There is no cruelty in the animal kingdom that we do not find mirrored in the human realm.

[@slicedlemons5925]

Ants are fucking ruthless

[@sondrasue1855]

OFF WITH HER HEAD

[@HeyBusterLuke]

As a kid in Australia I remember sitting watching an ant fight in the garden between groups of red and black ants. Next day I went to look again, and there was a big neat pyramid of dead black ants, and red ants dragging more dead black ones from holes in the ground and adding them to the pile. It seemed fascinatingly brutal - as I’d slept in my bed just metres away, this whole bleak and terrible night of tiny but merciless warfare and carnage had played out, and next day they were silently tidying up

[@adu9422]

Should have dropped in some ait support twigs lol

[@sonic176yt7]

No black ants should win, that's what grounded told me

[@costco_pizza]

Why didn't you HELP them????

[@I_Eat_Lemons]

@@costco_pizza Why the hell would they help ANTS?

[@historysyourbestfriend5500]

@@I_Eat_Lemons because the black ones are the nice ones. I don’t need red ants biting me every second they get.

[@micycles1200]

"Humans are the only beings that have war." Bugs: Annihilate a whole kingdom because a couple dudes got lost.

[@maxtyler8993]

@Jack Reacher Perhaps there is emotion. We just don't know.

[@alexlopez515]

@@maxtyler8993 maybe

[@FailedCommentator]

They are basically cogged hiveminds...they are machines with only one purpose... "FOR THE COLONY"

[@alexlopez515]

@@FailedCommentator Pretty much

[@InsongWhang]

So, The Great Britan?

[@GameboySX04]

Imagine doing all this work to kill this colony and then some kid comes and jumps on you or pours water on you

[@epicmanthatisntadog5661]

GameboySX04 😂😂😂😂

[@f9658]

GameboySX04 *Pisses*

[@poigikibobo]

feelsbadman

[@alondragarcia1784]

I want to like but its in 300 exactly

[@vedantpatil3535]

😂😂😂

[@wy4553]

These damn character designs are so similar you can't tell who's on whose side!

[@angelaabrams9108]

You gotta turn on smell-o-vision.

[@hypermodkid]

Right!! I'm like. Aren't you guys on the same team?

[@Santiago-5107]

To an untrained eye they all look the same. Not to the camera man and director of this epic movie.

[@arcadejunkie3930]

Ant Racist!

[@1don468]

Frl bruh at one point I was like they winning and then I'm like wait which one is which , then the narrator "oh what a brutal end "

[@Medieval_Dead]

I had two small black ant colonies around my house. One lived within the cracks of the driveway, the other near the side of the house. They lived in relative peace with one another for over 10 years until one night I came outside and discovered a full blown war involving tens of thousands of ants was taking place. It was near impossible to see what was going one or who was winning. The battle consisted of two giant mounds fighting with smaller amounts fighting around the perimeters. Due to neither side having a physical advantage the strategy was 2v1 to eliminate a fighter. 1v1 fights were stalemates until another came along, checked to see which one was on their side and then the kill would happen. It was a war of numbers. Once a fighter was dead or disabled they would let the body go and the process would continue on throughout the night. I came out early the next morning eager to check on the progress of the war and a clear winner had been decided. The driveway ants came out victorious. They had now broken into two groups. One group was on body recovery while the other group was deemed the invasion force, driving into the nest of the defeated side house colony to kill off any straggles, clear out their stores and eliminate their queen. No quarter was taken, it was pure annihilation. This was about 4 years ago now and the driveway ants are still thriving to this day. Their story of struggle, famine, war and perseverance unknown to all but them. RIP to the side house colony, your energy lives on through the victors.

[@frederickvanhelsun9315]

Stories

[@mikesmith-wk7vy]

get the amdro out

[@StonerKitchen]

You should write ant short stories

[@isaiahferreira5267]

Write a book you goof

[@KahluaBomb]

You should write this tale, print it, and leave it with the house if you ever leave. It is deserving to note the deeds of the driveway clan of ants, history favors the bold.

[@greciacastro9020]

Let us praise the brave Ant journalist who risked his/her life to film these historic events.

[@dl5200]

@@owenismyname.3023 *Their, and obviously they didn't risk their lives :P

[@dotcon5855]

name. duh

[@ridinondubz]

Anterson Cooper

[@dacye8815]

ExhuastTrailCRU13 male ants aren’t around

[@terk383]

Dacye male ants exist, they just don’t do work. It’s like male bees.

[@frankmorin9803]

“Her empire still lives”...... Boi I can’t wait to get recommended for the second part....

[@CountDooku0]

Right

[@SignalCorps1]

Part 2 entitled, ‘Empire Strikes Back’. Sounds vaguely familiar tho

[@tomaslozada9397]

Empire of the desert ants 2: electric bogaloo

[@ThatNerdAlbert]

damn a sequel

[@cloudsoflilac9731]

this shit gonna get its own show 😭💀

[@jsthecanuck6804]

you’d think the title overdramaticised it but the invading ants literally executed the queen medeival style

[@buggeta694]

Nobody: Marie Antoinette: First time?

[@otomackena7610]

Beheading as a capital punishment is still practiced in Saudi Arabia

[@thegoodfather1177]

@@suprememasteroftheuniverse how is it fake?

[@MadGameHouse]

They even had an ant-sized guillotine !

[@qawsqnick1217]

@@suprememasteroftheuniverse I'm sorry it's fake? Source on that? I think you may be the defeated ants trying to save face

[@bozoforce]

The camera ant never dies. He always gets the best footage. Crawling past the front lines to document and record the brutality of War.

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

Trough ants: You! Document this all for posterity.

[@Hacckfort]

I really wonder how they filmed that all, if it isnt just a glass container in a studio

[@le_blacked69]

@@Hacckfort usually when they film big wild animals like cheetahs hunting, they're far away, usually in a car, and they just zoom in with the camera, although for ants i don't know, but it looks like it

[@cell85043]

@@Hacckfortplease tell us when you find out

[@justwaitaminute9393]

@@Hacckfortprobably a bunch of miniature cameras… if they can get a camera in ur butt they can also get a camera in an ant hill

[@brenon1441]

Imagine being the queen ant watching the cameraman do nothing while she's literally being torn apart.

[@sapphirejones7302]

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@sophiemansfield7899]

WHY DID I IMAGINE A TINY ANT WITH A LITTLE CAMERA

[@At0mHeart]

Its just a prank bro

[@antnewsreporter5752]

😅

[@sophiemansfield7899]

Ant News Reporter OMG where’s your camera

[@ginaverso]

I demand a “Behind the scenes” of this live action film.

[@tubbs8349]

There is usually a behind the scenes section of most documentaries in the UK, so If you find the original you could probably also find it there

[@UATU.]

I don’t trust reality television, I second the demand.

[@tigerlove441]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@everready2903]

Yes! With interviews!

[@PatrickJamesMConde]

@Vengeance * . . .

[@samtheman7642]

When you go to grab a drink but accidentally lead an army back home

[@metehantanis3406]

Lmfao I laughed more than I should💀💀

[@spacecadetlostintransit]

I’m now gonna pour buckets of water outside my house to help the ants

[@samtheman7642]

TheHollowEyed Comrade no don’t, you’ll start World War Ants

[@--NOT-OKAY]

Oh yeah I hate when that happens

[@grimreaper9939]

@@--NOT-OKAY oof your name I'm gonna call it lol.

[@judgementkazzy7172]

"Man is the only species on earth that wages war with itself" Ants: *sees another colony and proceeds to rip the colonies queen limb from limb just because*

[@greggstrasser5791]

Lies we are told. “All men are created equal.”

[@wolfpecker5710]

Chimp groups wage wars with each other too!

[@RedTail1-1]

​@@greggstrasser5791has nothing to do with what he said.

[@greggstrasser5791]

@@RedTail1-1 Yes it does, and you need to cover yourself with honey and let ants fight a war on your sweet, naked body. You like writing irrelevant shit?

[@2003LN6]

@@greggstrasser5791 ok rightwing

[@brandonxiongd7031]

ants: *fight underground* camera men: "lemme just noclip through this real quick"

[@czarbuscus1475]

😂😂

[@valentinehill6138]

Brandon Xiong :D lmaooooo

[@James-cf3xj]

i-

[@mefamin507]

bruh i swear 😆😆

[@robzonefire]

gmod lol

[@meritdavey8732]

“Some dead workers are carried off for processing.” Amazon Corporate: “Write that down! Write that down!”

[@tardwrangler]

ha

[@lolmaemae]

😂

[@joseallende8046]

🤣🤣🤣

[@WillyDee123]

😂

[@KBWeeds]

I just cackled picturing this. Thank you!

[@MrDboi1236]

I’m going outside to feed my ants right now. We aren’t going to lose to the neighbors. Dropping care packages as i type.

[@kaiohitsuji287]

Ant friends

[@MrDboi1236]

kai ohitsuji shoulder shrugs

[@MrDboi1236]

Kim Jong-Un El Glande lol just a little

[@blessethishe]

I just gave my ants the ultimate weapon. I sneeze covid 19 into the ant colony.

[@justyouraveragehumans22]

I occasionally bring out some sugar for the local yard ants

[@chubbbyninja]

That’s crazy that they live side by side for years with no problem whatsoever yet as soon as they find out about their existence they’re just not having any of it

[@danielwu7238]

Your assuming the narration is 100% accurate. A lot of times with nature documentary they stitch together what ever story they can that matches what ever they caught on film. Sometimes the story is real, sometimes its fake, and sometimes the story is exaggerated/half true to hook the audiences attention.

[@Corey-mq1kr]

@@danielwu7238 Yeah the whole time this is what I was thinking. Most of the time they aren't even in the wild, they build the set and bring the animals/insects. And if you REALLY look and ignore the narrator, you can't tell who is who and what is what. You think the company in charge, bbc or whatever wouldn't order an insane amount of ants just to record the war? Ofc they would.

[@Tips4Tat]

@@Corey-mq1kr THANK YOU! Nice to see 2 people who aren't gullible. Imagine what the world would be like if the majority of us thought critically and exercised a healthy degree of skepticism...

[@stevennatera8876]

Those few ants that started a fight got his whole colony annihilated

[@syphonfilterhitgaming6945]

Remind you of any other species...?

[@SrRurik]

Don't start none won't be none. - Invader Ants Prolly.

[@jacobherring7736]

Shouldn't have been talking shit

[@orven_lou]

No, I think the colony's end is inevitable, but they made it sooner though. It's the drought that decided their fate.

[@randompheidoleminor3011]

@@syphonfilterhitgaming6945 reminds me of pretty much all members of Kingdom Animalia

[@mannhattannight2587]

Imagine an ant coming home to his whole colony eaten.

[@shyyzy7492]

Ant that came back from foraging:imma pretend I didn’t see that

[@srikarprayaga2534]

Aight imma head out

[@acoolpotato3243]

GUYS GUYS I FOUND WATE- guys?

[@svyt]

Day of the Condor

[@nileshmeshram4708]

That sounds like an anime plot😯

[@antnewsreporter5752]

If you're wondering who filmed this, it was me.

[@lilholm9446]

Great job

[@salimabdulhakim405]

How

[@jacobbaker2316]

You were the traitor

[@antnewsreporter5752]

@@jacobbaker2316 the only way to survive is being the camera man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@antnewsreporter5752]

@David Kurkowski nothing much, one male ant was caught flying over our colony. We took it down with our R.A.I.D.S (Radio Active Insect Defence System) and ate it. Nothing was wasted.

[@andrerichards7808]

While watching this I can't help but feel that there are entities out there watching us humans in a similar way that we watch these ants and their stories.

[@eggheadusa]

Most humans used to think this before the dawn of atheism

[@greggstrasser5791]

@@eggheadusa Glad these douchebag Atheists were able to usher in a new day and make this place less of a shithole.

[@JimmyJones-w3p]

But they're coming back thanks to the idea of 4th dimensional beings.

[@ramdejin8426]

Unless we discover ants watching videos on youtube for bugs i think we’re good

[@nikicarrie4071]

For sure

[@Benskie]

You: Relaxing and chilling outside. Ants: *SILENTLY STARTS WW3*

[@FallenOne669]

They're at WW300 at this point.

[@Gavolak]

Team VLCN ants have existed as a species for 92 million years. It’s at least world war 30,000,000,000,000

[@errorsans6208]

I can start war world 100000000000000000 with the ants

[@milkywater5531]

I literally just died

[@potsy5263]

Reee!

[@JaJatheJetplane]

I like how the small ants ran into bigger ants and the first thing that came to their mind was "I can take em" and end up getting their whole colony destroyed

[@chrismoore7973]

Desperate times call for desperate measures in the wild

[@InVinoVeratas]

Sometimes all you can do is grin and bear it.

[@nowwhat8209]

I guess it was going to happen eventually...

[@KillShot-ln6mn]

@@janedullard8463 Ok.

[@engineergaming5478]

@@janedullard8463 I never say this but this really is a when did I ask moment.

[@zawarudo213]

Imagine the PTSD the ant camera man must've had while watching his brothers and queen die.

[@andrewmitchell5807]

Kind of missed the definition of PTSD there

[@lazwit5513]

@@andrewmitchell5807 How so?

[@lazwit5513]

@@andrewmitchell5807 Nevermind, I see the error.

[@ahmadkamil3713]

@@lazwit5513 please explain!

[@lazwit5513]

@@ahmadkamil3713 He says "Imagine the PTSD the and camera man must've had WHILE watching his brothers and queen die." You can't have PTSD while the thing that gave you PTSD is in the process of occuring. Considering PTSD is a trauma of the past and not the present.

[@SeekGrace]

I wonder what they're saying to queen in ant language while ripping her apart.

[@alexman378]

“The Honeypots send their regards”

[@lionheart7762]

Me: **is thirsty** **walks to the sink** Ants: **are thirsty** **get massacred by a tribe of cannibals and thrown from their throne and dismembered**

[@michaelmathews4103]

Suspicious Ned Flanders Do u rly think that. Humans were never like ants lol. We have a conscious.

[@zachg2410]

Michael Mathews If you mean humans were never cannibals than your wrong, much of Africa, and South America, as recently as the last few decades, have practiced some form of human consumption. If you mean humans have never tried to wipe out another group of people, then I point out the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. If you mean humans never fought over resources, then I point you to nearly every conflict in world history. If you mean people never fought over different monarchs or rules like the ants, then I point you to Europe for the period between 900-1940CE. Most of human history is filled with examples of barbarism in the extreme, and it is only in the most recent century or so that much of the world is now civilized or making strides towards civilization. A conscious doesn’t exactly separate us from the ants behaviorally for most of history, it just makes us realize that it was immoral to treat others like that.

[@zachg2410]

Michael Mathews I can tell you are very educated for using examples, actually answering all those points I made, and not insulting me randomly. Thank you for being a good person and not one of those online idiots we see so often. Sincerely, “bitch”

[@splitdragon3004]

*CoughsinAztec*

[@michaelmathews4103]

The Insequent AHa np bitch

[@jacknoymer5093]

Can’t believe that BBC was able to hire an ant cameraman. Crazy stuff, but I’m glad they’re getting employed

[@Joy-sp5mw]

I agree it’s good to see that they’re finally employing the black community

[@yurif2884]

@@Joy-sp5mw black and red

[@singggpi]

Hi Hi and gray

[@bigratswagginsswaggins6085]

@@singggpi and neon teal

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

@@Joy-sp5mw finally ? the BBC employ far too many non whites ,in their programmes there r more non whites than native brits ,its dumb ,im so glad i dont pay my TV licence , bbC are anti white racists

[@about80ninjas]

Corral Ants: * look for water * Angry Ants: So you have chosen *DEATH*

[@joshuachua2491]

thanks for summarizing the plot

[@mrsnipermask936]

Nailed it.

[@12fish122]

Well they need water to survive anyway

[@walwaltgsbaby9341]

LMAOOO

[@funnocap1092]

“The queen may be dead, but the empire lives.” Literal goosebumps 💀

[@dadshoe7607]

I feel like I’m watching a medieval war documentary, but with ants

[@crongnaktheannihilator2341]

What do you think of Kawhi Leonard’s new balance shoe mr dad shoe

[@xepiloguex]

Lol

[@TheOrangeRoad]

Medieval? No, this shit is even darker. We're talking Khan, or Viking style warfare.

[@Janine.Najarian]

Yup

[@ilikecod6758]

@@TheOrangeRoad the queen had a medieval torture devices style death.

[@aapex5459]

ants: look for water to survive scary ants: *you’re gonna wish you didn’t do that*

[@thaliadamnbabe4070]

Aapex 54 😂😂😂 laughing way to hard at this

[@selestielwolf7949]

Why didn't the water searching ants leave the scary ants alone instead of attacking them?

[@thezambambo2184]

Competition, for the Hive, that sort of stuff

[@kylepatrickmaducdoc1719]

"THERES PLENTY OF WWWATEEER DOWNN THEREE!" "THEY LOOK THIRSTY!" "WELL LETS GIVE EM SOMETHING TA DRINK!" "TO THE CLIFFSSS!!!"

[@pinstripe4254]

Selestiel Wolf well they tried. Really ants can’t see very well so they have to get close. After they figure out if it is a threat they may try to retreat which they did but the other ants followed them back

[@leonesenpai]

So the Empire is going to strike back is what you're saying.

[@mitchmurray6323]

Execute order 66

[@shengloongtan229]

@@mitchmurray6323 messa call jarjar binks

[@smuk123]

Antwan learns the power of the force after being the last survivor

[@annjulee500]

Leone Senpai Yeah...but no Yoda! :)

[@arielsastre3899]

Star Wars Ep. 99

[@TheRealRoman11]

Somewhere outside in your backyard there’s an epic Lord of the Rings style battle going on right now.

[@foreverjune8]

Humans: "Cannibalism, massacre, genocide!" Ants: "Tuesday."

[@Raison_d-etre]

It was not a genocide, not this video anyway.

[@toserveman9317]

@@Raison_d-etre If the queen was killed it was literally genocide since survivor drones can't pass their surviving strategy /reflex on.

[@justinflowers9380]

@@toserveman9317 It was also technically Regicide. If you think about it.

[@bsw6315]

@george ivory. Underrated comment

[@tiny99990]

@@toserveman9317 it says at the end that the queens daughters were still alive and facing their own struggles.

[@princejawfree447]

Can you imagine being like a scout ant, gone on a mission for hours or days or something, and then coming back to find that your home has been destroyed and your friends/family killed?

[@itsjustme5097]

Sounds like the beginning of some crazy backstory where that ant seeks out his revenge but understands he isnt strong enough to take them on so he starts working out then gets abnormally strong and finally returns to his homeland and tracks down where the enemy ant colony lies He then brutally massacred all of them but leaves the larvae out of mercy He starts a family and a colony is built The larvae that were left behind then grow up to repeat the cycle

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

A bit like Ridley Scott's Gladiator. I am ANTimus Decimus Meridius. Father to a murdered son, Husband to a murdered wife and i shall have my vengeance in this life or the next 😂 🐜 ⚔

[@Andy-kz7nu]

Sounds like Sasuke in Naruto.

[@ryanjones9498]

Then like Rambo he drives into town and starts shooting buildings

[@beanbag3769]

OFF JACK bish turn it into a movie

[@NotHere12345]

Corral Ant: “My Queen, they’ve breached the gates! What do we do?” Queen: “It’s been an honor to be your queen.”

[@shanettacane7101]

Funny

[@aminahamin7887]

Shanetta Cane no that suppose to be sad

[@shanettacane7101]

@@aminahamin7887 it's funny to me

[@shanettacane7101]

This is the insect world and what they do, don't get so caught up in it

[@caw_caw_]

YoungAnt: My Queen, there are too many of them. What are we going to do?

[@drungaodys5610]

The narrator nailed himself with the ending, making it sound epic as hell. "A storm marked their beginning and now its end"

[@Treflip22]

But they stand no chance against my sharpie circle

[@lemonke7522]

Lmao

[@TazHall]

😂😂😂

[@michibmoon]

😂

[@nursenatedawg]

Treflip and my magnifying glass on a sunny day

[@ryan.j113]

This man out here with straight war tactics

[@ytmndan]

Narrator: Ant genocide. No survivors. Total devastation. Audience: Yo, how’d you even film that?

[@idisrxspect6584]

1234567 probably a camera on a wire put into the nest or they have a glass wall to see into the nest from the side

[@ruwibiduya9589]

They actually film these kind of video using an ant farm terrarium, they attached a fixed camera besides a glass wall to directly view the colony. The film outside the colony are pre-recorded videos of natural colonies while internal colonies are filmed with ant farms, pretty much this are just camera tricks to fool people to think they're still watching a natural events vs man-made events. Lol Edit: There used to be a documentary on how people do this at National Geographic and Animal Planet long ago, I think you guys can still see it if you google ;)

[@yughesyugu2393]

@@ruwibiduya9589 ikr

[@seismicdisturbance1757]

Just coat your camera so the ants will carry it home for you. Then you find their nest!! Track the device and root it in place. Start recording.

[@nickpurnell2769]

@@ruwibiduya9589 so the queen lives

[@Chewi_Kitten]

Ant Queen: Help! They're ripping my legs off! Cameraman: Nice

[@Roadent1241]

Must be filming that one Animorphs scene where they did that in the early books, killed an ant queen to be able to escape the hive mind. And get on with the rest of the mission. That was, uh, traumatising just to read. Now we have it in HD to watch. Guess if I was to fan-make a modern life-action Animorphs I know where to get my footage.

[@dad3938]

Roadent1241 nah they don’t do it like that cause the ants will be able to crawl inside the camera and eat the wires

[@Roadent1241]

@@dad3938 This seemed fine XP that or CGI is actually good enough now.

[@2Esaias2]

"And here... Comes the moneyshot."

[@Ohfishyfishyfish]

It's fine, those ants were all actors.

[@abhinavtripathi7813]

This video was better than all the seasons of Game Of Thrones.

[@SpencerBarton]

A bugs life, rated R.

[@bearase8719]

Mr sudo harsh

[@bearase8719]

Mr sudo what the hell?!? All I said was harsh you crazy bastard

[@ThyLoki]

@@shidubs6750 you shut the fuck up you dont have many subs like spencer

[@jbizzy_thegoat5060]

Mr sudo No one asked for ur opinion ❤️

[@elias-vh9ky]

@@shidubs6750 stfu little shit

[@pwareham61]

Utterly compelling, the narrator made it sound like the fall of the Roman empire, or world war 2.

[@muzankibutsuji7377]

I am surprised how do they flim these.

[@lordofwhip]

@@muzankibutsuji7377 looks like those tube cameras that they usee in medicine

[@lga9436]

Like how the aliens observe us thtoughout our history lol

[@switch-no-comply778]

Anyone know the opening music?

[@anshul9462]

How the hell the camera went so deep inside without disturbing and disrupting. Wonderful job.

[@GustavoLago]

My boring life would sound amazing with this narrator: "He feels compelled to sleep... The sofa looks like the perfect place to do so... "

[@narwhalking2788]

I can hear him say that too.

[@notlightbeam4889]

Feels*

[@surendratamang8464]

😂

[@trabucks]

😂😂😂😂

[@GustavoLago]

@@mrdgenerate tks!

[@jesusceballos7277]

I’ve never seen something so thrilling. This wasn’t a recording of ants. This was ART.

[@natejpc]

Nobody: Ant-survivor with a camera: The people need to know what happened here.

[@phil8516]

Memes been killed to death

[@graphite7898]

Can the nobody meme just die already

[@C0ND3V1L]

CGI

[@ollyaintjolly1249]

@@graphite7898 I know, the joke usually works just fine without "Nobody:"

[@ennieminymoo6675]

Can we just appreciate the funny joke? There are people who also use the meme and are not even funny

[@justins7796]

this is how Game of Thrones should've ended

[@Arshika792]

🤣🤣🤣

[@leohawkins4734]

Imma tell my kids this was season 7-8.

[@bballClipss]

This is how Hong Kong is going to end, if no one resists China

[@gh0st_proxy]

All that's missing is a CGI dragonfly.

[@cloudsoflilac9731]

I'd accept any other way than the original ending, that sucked ass 😭

[@ruchshanewilliamson5697]

Imagine playing dead and hear the ant leader say "EAT THE DEAD ONES ON THE SPOT"

[@babyree2901]

Not Snivy this needs more likes 😂😂

[@ruchshanewilliamson5697]

@@babyree2901 😂😂😂

[@Shineynsparkles]

That’s crazy

[@pebble8978]

hahaha

[@didiash4583]

@Max1982 yup. Until the cap said "Cut off her arms and legs! We just need her holes!"

[@valleriplumley5563]

I am emotionally invested in the lives and wellbeing of these ants.

[@nealgrimes4382]

People are just Ants to me.

[@themightylog2169]

You have good taste in music

[@FkaIsaac]

Imagine being a ant and seeing the camera crew recording your death.

[@lionheart7762]

FkaIsaac "Thanks my dude. I understand though. Gotta get that content."

[@Pr0phetless]

The corral colony has been murdered after searching for water during a drought. Then, the drought ends. That's some Stephen King shit right there.

[@jackcutter2]

I literally went "nooo" when that happened. The irony is painful

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

I used to think that nature was cruel. I used to think that everything happened for a reason. I used to think that maybe bad things happened because you, somehow, deserved them... That a superior force had an unknowable way of judging all of us... Call it God, nature, the universe... Those forces kept life in balance in ways that you didn't have the right to know... But the reality is that sometimes, for absolutely no reason, bad things simply happen. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to anyone... The best one can do is prepare for the drought, for the killing of all your kind, for the longest journey that is death, for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time... Because it may happen whether you think you deserve it or not, and I think that's scarier than the judgement of any superior force...

[@mildhotpeppers]

@@DonVigaDeFierro lmfao dude how high are you?

[@michaelp.6520]

@@mildhotpeppers philosophy is one hell of a drug

[@mildhotpeppers]

@@michaelp.6520 Sounds like they are out here smoking that Hobbes and rolling up with a Leviathan.

[@justsomeguywithasurprisede4059]

*_"Everything was fine until the Desert Nation attacked"_*

[@neondisguise1587]

*Everything was fine, until that fateful day...*

[@hranghlei]

What do we call the ant Avatar?

[@justanothermind9449]

@@neondisguise1587 you must be one of those who wipes standing up then throws the dirty toilet paper into a garbage can next to your toilet. oh thats me nvm

[@ashishnair1659]

Spice is power!

[@toso69420]

@@hranghlei *Avatar Ant*

[@alexhb12333]

Can we appreciate the foley artists that had to make tons of mini ant footstep sounds?

[@curtisstephens4482]

"What of the queen captain? She's not on the list" "Forget the list, she goes to the *rack* . "

[@michaelbanks1000]

DRAGONFLY!!!

[@curtisstephens4482]

@Tronald Dump lol

[@mr.brodude1722]

What is that a reference to?

[@dodoo7824]

Skyrim

[@graysonvirtue4058]

@Tronald Dump* my antcestors

[@opperred5804]

Bruh can these guys wear like coloured shirts, I can’t tell whose who.

[@ValiantInfamy]

At least throw up a lil gang sign or somethin..

[@AYOCIG]

The bigger ones are the winners

[@bigboyjesus3.0tmandcopyrig72]

Shirts v skins

[@jazminlasvegasnv3950]

Wear*

[@Anmati13]

At first im confused reading ur comment, but after 5x finally i get what u mean lol

[@Eblis840]

The actors REALLY immersed themselves in their roles, splendid film.

[@Rajat-Sharma1]

This comment deserves more likes.

[@Inomozo]

Might I add Great cinematography by the camera-ants And great directing by the director ants

[@trevorphilips9065]

I also love how Paul Rudd managed to make himself so small and change his human form into an ant. Give that man an Oscar because that's dedication.

[@louiebili17yearsagoedited85]

Would like, but you have 666

[@4711-y5n]

Justin Pollock those are REAL ants, not actors

[@guilhermeleite3470]

7:30 “The queen may be dead, but her empire lives on” wow 🔥

[@shiki555]

Imagine a person just seeing the fight and deciding to step on a couple of ant's not knowing they just changed an outcome of a war

[@2kmichaeljordan438]

I’ve ended plenty of wars in my backyard with water. They choose the wrong foot to sting, So now I started a crusade to cleanse my backyard from ant savages

[@quill7889]

@@2kmichaeljordan438 lmfao

[@DeathlordSlavik]

@@2kmichaeljordan438 Considering how you said sting rather then bite guessing they were fire ants?

[@ivanarcheous4731]

* if The Living Tribunal stepped in, in Infinity War *

[@2kmichaeljordan438]

@@DeathlordSlavik yep, and I’m not afraid to say it hurt like a bitch

[@champ2.546]

A bugs life: honey isnt always sweet Rated-R, coming to a theater near you

[@IvyG-C]

champ 2.5 oooOoooOooOooooOoOooo

[@champ2.546]

@@IvyG-C what is that?😂

[@plugboijohnny]

Lmao

[@thepanman8]

This is a great storyline. Pixar needs some violence to shake it up

[@5065ca]

🤣

[@livenotonevil8279]

ALL inferior ants were harmed in the making of this documentary.

[@XxSOULLESSxX]

I lost my family in this attack. We will never forget. An ant never forgets.

[@supers0nic77]

Thank you for your service

[@jayfeezal8773]

*Bruh this New Bugs Life Trailer is not PG-13*

[@Taystee]

*live action bugs life*

[@gothmommyshmu]

*Can't wait till it's released*

[@peachyroo1714]

Oof

[@crowned2088]

@Tre So this isn't the new Call of duty trailer!!??

[@360Fov]

It's actually insane that we have any of this kind of footage, absolutely mind blowing.

[@Chillifish57]

Don’t u likee it?

[@joshreeves3593]

But how is what I wonder lol

[@pray4mojo35]

Bee Movie was pretty impressive and hilarious too.

[@luvlols4462]

It is mostly staged. The insects are bred and raised by entomologists and the backgrounds are computer generated. There is no itty bitty camera in the tunnels, they're in a clear gel farm in a lab somewhere.

[@jayjayjayjay1067]

@@luvlols4462 I remember watching something which showed the filming of a scene of 2 beatles fighting on a branch in a "rainforest"... it was filmed in some guys shed in I think manchester

[@keri98af]

can you imagine the reaction of a corral ant coming back from getting groceries

[@princeharming8963]

L O L

[@Lovey.01]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gerilynne1955]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@Lovey.01]

Why is this comment so underrated

[@princeharming8963]

@@Lovey.01 - I'm very flattered, but all I said was 'L O..... Ohh... wait... you meant Keri's post! Oops! Never mind ☺

[@dontcaredidntask.]

I was just thinking..! How talented! We are so lucky some people spend their time working on giving us the best images . It's a privilege to see the world of bugs from such a close angle. Thank you

[@dum1127]

Them ants be acting out “Daughters what are you doing!?” “Succeeding you...”

[@vocetemgostodementiroso3230]

Warcraft 3 reference

[@roguelock7125]

Você tem gosto de mentiroso I was thinking the same thing

[@BoostedMonkey05]

*in a sarcastic tone before executing the queen* Hail to the empress.

[@lucifertempest9566]

TriHard

[@yolkthosenuts]

Dum TriHard 7

[@lilweedsea]

Me: dammit I forgot my wallet Meanwhile, Ants: *fighting for their colony that took 8 generation to build up, their queen slaughtered and their children kidnapped*

[@luminoustorus548]

Correction: their children were cannibalized in front of them

[@chicagoliightsx]

Lol yes, some are worse off in this life 😂

[@deegan727]

kombucha! Hell yeah there’s worse off in life , Dreamiie might have a Starbucks gift card in that wallet.

[@butterslurp]

I mean.... Same thing to the Native Americans and African nations.........

[@r080486]

Butter Slick same to Europeans and Asians

[@j.ritter619]

It would help if each team didn’t wear the same uniform.

[@TheLegendryZelda]

agreed

[@Ysumbruh0]

They probably know who’s who by smell and other things

[@j.ritter619]

@@Ysumbruh0 I appreciate that youre trying to expand my knowledge on ant tracking and recognition through the use of pheromones brother. I really do. But serious question for you...do you know what a joke is?

[@kumasire4430]

@@j.ritter619 fun fact: do you know floor is made out of floor

[@j.ritter619]

@@kumasire4430 Wait. For real? I had no idea that floors are made of the same stuff used for flooring floors. Wow. That floored me lol.

[@anaditullio]

The epic soundtrack adds a special touch to this gruesome war documentary

[@guyfromthe80s92]

Sounds like Heart of Iron soundtrack.

[@Tony-dv4yq]

Shout out to ant man for filming this documentary

[@baconz_rulez4068]

Cancerous Vibez LOL

[@DARTH-R3VAN]

@@baconz_rulez4068 I think you mean Antcerous Vibez 🙃

[@absence7560]

Asad Khan no i think he meant ant man for sure, bees arent accepted in ant colonies

[@harukatakahashi8822]

Thank "Ant News Reporter"

[@japhetbatubenga1150]

Didn't know kevin heart filmed ants

[@Youtubeuser1aa]

So I learned two things: 1) ants are cannibalistic serial killers, and 2) the lighting here was FANTASTIC

[@dayangmarikit6860]

Some ant species also enslave other ants.

[@floridamanstrikesagain555]

*A N T S L A V E R Y*

[@wolflightning2331]

Oh don't forget they kidnap the eggs before they hatch. it's called *antnapping*

[@benm1414]

@@wolflightning2331 wouldn't it be larvalnapping? 🤔

[@toroselfpropelledgaslawnmo5197]

@@floridamanstrikesagain555 Anti slavery? Nah. A N T S L A V E R Y.

[@tobbe1980]

My nightmare is to be born as an ant in my next life.

[@tobbe1980]

@Logan Vonderhaar true, Only instincts. But they must feel pain right?😏

[@naimablanc8519]

I want to be born as a girl again

[@waspoppin4784]

Torbjörn Ljung hey you ever heard of Hunter X Hunter Chimera ant arc

[@xineraliouse9848]

Or any kind of animal, birds or insect, everyone is each other's food, you don't know when you will become someone food, but being born as Hyena would be nightmare for anyone wether male or female.

[@abhishekpokhrel9658]

@@xineraliouse9848 what about hyena?

[@mastertoki1]

Queen: oh god please somebody help me! cameraman: whatta scoop!

[@Cring3y]

I feel like I am watching a medieval action movie.

[@AntsCanada]

The world of ants is truly wild and sometimes ruthless!

[@animegirl342]

Wasn’t expecting to see you here, when’s the next video coming out?

[@alik42069]

Oh hey good seeing you here on another recomended video

[@assarstromblad3280]

So here you are :P

[@lifeof_a568]

AntsCanada omg hi I love you and your yt channel ❤️😭

[@nickthompson1812]

AntsCanada I’d watch your videos if they weren’t 20 minutes with 10+ minutes of BS! Best of luck to you!

[@Arklay_98]

The brutality of war isn’t just a human thing.

[@chadachi1353]

@@DeusVult87 you need to see my cats... They are washing eachother and after a hour total war on the exacly same spot they were on, beating the shit out of one another

[@Arklay_98]

Nathan Breedlove true that

[@Arklay_98]

Deus Vult it’s an art really lol

[@jumpstart55million]

@@DeusVult87 @Deus Vult Your sisters dogs were probably competing for your sisters attention and affection. Female dog's are known to get very territorial and jealous against other female canines in a household.

[@kneegar7369]

Thats makes human are no different with animals...

[@Sarobi]

The fact that ants do this and also know how to coordinate and perform team executions is really blowing my mind.

[@alexschemel4027]

This should’ve been the last season of Game of Thrones. Take notes HBO

[@aswadj1]

Alex Schemel Facts‼️

[@GAZAMAN93X]

Not HBO. They wanted it to be longer. Blame D&D

[@razorlazer716]

Jill's Sandwiches I wonder what bobby b would say about this video?

[@lexx5313]

No kidding! Ants get better better lighting and story!

[@DavidGarcia-oi5nt]

@@razorlazer716 GOD'S I WAS STRONG THEN

[@rileymiller7012]

Ants: having a war Some psychopath with liquid metal: A I G H T I T ‘ S G A M I N G T I M E

[@soma3487]

That profile picture

[@sebg5528]

It's only anime were ok... Right?

[@ginjajinja9424]

Ahaha yeah only an anime .__.

[@123fourfive5]

Is that referring to cooling the CPUs of gaming computers with liquid metal?

[@Concerned_Custodian]

Nice hentai.

[@Rajat-Sharma1]

The queen maybe dead, but her empire lives. Goosebumps.

[@kylebenoit787]

Rajat Sharma *may be

[@hearsay8741]

goose numps* pogchamp

[@leonbelmont4028]

lives on*

[@kaankirdaroglu5500]

FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!!

[@emrisart]

actual chills oh my lord

[@DrFouFou]

It’s insane how ants have strategized raids and pillages all the time

[@jsucisiqixidjd]

This is probably what aliens see when we’re having a war

[@chabola8164]

lmao what they think but not what they see

[@star-ji6jy]

chabola r/woooosh

[@capriumnoir6426]

with a monotone voiced alien narrating it

[@damnyejustgotbewitchedbyth2802]

*What if we are the aliens and the ants are the terrestrials having a war, let’s not forget they were before mammals....*

[@laaismm3107]

Yeah but we dont eat each other on the battlefield

[@KINGCVSEY]

“The Queen may be dead, but her empire will live forever” *entire empire was slaughtered and raided*

[@Nikolapoleon]

The _colony_ was slaughtered. I think that last statement implies that there was more than one colony descended from the same queen.

[@KINGCVSEY]

Montpelier Montgomery probably right lol shit was just funny to me

[@catherinemichelle7260]

KING CVSEY droll

[@incorporeal7614]

He said that the queens daughters are carrying the legacy in their own colony! 7:20

[@fallendevonish1869]

@@incorporeal7614 some people don't listen

[@dirtify515]

Props to the cameraman who was brave enough to shrink himself and crawl into the nest!

[@shanefly4000]

Scott Lang

[@mr.r6683]

Ant man is real..😂😂

[@vsmooveatl]

😂

[@cherryguystudios]

plot twist: the cameraman is an ant

[@fortnightnonightyesnight8893]

@@cherryguystudios you mean the camera ant

[@thomaslee420]

“This water is a life saver” YOUR VOICE IS A LIFE SAVER!!!

[@cerealscerealscereals]

the sound of the ants makes it 300 times worse

[@walterwhite-dq6hz]

3000*

[@nikibronson133]

Right I started to itch so much

[@camillemaez3819]

It was almost like an ASMR except I was freaking out thinking of all of their tiny legs. 😂😂😂

[@jomelbaguio1933]

Search it, The magic of making sounds

[@Dylandrawindog]

What makes it cool is that they can’t actually record the sound of the ants it’s to quiet so it’s probably added in post by some bloke in a room with maracas and shit

[@ThePopushi]

I say this wholeheartedly: Damn Nature. You scary.

[@makeandeatgummyleeches5975]

That phrase was funny in like 2011 how did you even remember that?

[@linguine4500]

You ain't see nothing yet.

[@zejdland]

It is evil not scary

[@ilikecod6758]

@@zejdland the people during the Roman times did the same shit what you mean evil?

[@zejdland]

@@ilikecod6758 it has no concept of good that's why it's evil. then why the hell does it develop that concept in humans.. It is not our mother as it wants to kill us all the time it's more of a cousin

[@anggaperdana9136]

"The drought finally breaks" And now the rains weep o'er her halls with no one there to hear

[@maxgessa3504]

Yes now the rains, weep o'er her halls, with not a soul to hear

[@lobotomy_central]

Max Gessa “the only thing that beckons through these halls are the drops of rain, seeping through”

[@janemonroe5633]

and so he spoke...

[@chippin_in5015]

Jane Monroe and so he spoke, that lord o’ castamere

[@redstonepig0850]

I love how the birds make it sound so peaceful but the music is like DUN DUN DUN.

[@Seraphinus112]

Game of thrones: ant edition

[@intialmayhem6973]

Game of thrones wish it had a epic ending like this

[@qwerty842]

better ending than season 8

[@vinayakchavan3941]

Arya is still alive.

[@sosmooth13]

I sense betrayal. One of those coral ants sold out the colony lol

[@toastcrunch9387]

The ants were doing it first. And better.

[@rpd0825]

no one: the ant filming this with a HDX camera: *WORLDSTAR*

[@yotengo2807]

lmao

[@darellarocho5729]

IKR

[@HORSESNDOGS9]

"Nature is peaceful and in harmony with itself. " Nature:

[@m.a.3322]

Well, it all exists in a delicate balance, even if that balance is barbaric & cruel asf

[@HORSESNDOGS9]

@@m.a.3322 true

[@grantdotjpg]

Harmony. Together, they can be at war

[@HORSESNDOGS9]

@@grantdotjpg yeah, I should have used better words. But ive heard people say we should be like nature because it's always so beautiful and peaceful.

[@fcogalvi7814]

@@HORSESNDOGS9 nature is everything but paceful, and that just make it more fascinating

[@snapman218]

If there’s any I learned it’s that a high resolution camera, a British accent, and some dramatic music can make anything interesting

[@kodiibearv]

this wouldn't have been nearly as interesting without this narrator. he made it sound like the damn romanov execution.

[@gianmac3361]

Lmai

[@romdog1818]

@@gianmac3361 Don't do that, you'll implode.

[@sergiolares4285]

Don't say the Lord name in vain. Keep it Holy.

[@gianmac3361]

@@sergiolares4285 ok

[@kodiibearv]

@@sergiolares4285 my bad bro

[@Im_George]

*Me feeling a slight itch while watching this:* OH DEAR GOD

[@pieceofhope7107]

I'm George same 🤣

[@KamiiSola]

Same

[@axiitx3986]

SAME

[@luis-tl8it]

SAME

[@tornado1078]

Omg saaammme!

[@subuc5366]

Ants Canada won't be happy seeing this

[@hgtvboi6255]

Oh lawd stop noo

[@jonathanstevens6825]

Lol

[@Boxman5618]

Subramaniam Chintamani HELLO AC FAMILY WELCOME TO MY ANT VIDEO

[@overhealing7691]

Lol

[@BigBrainBrenda]

Yes, they would have to take this attack to the A.U.N (ants United Nation) to have a meeting of this unfair war

[@ambrayacarpenter4251]

Between the Voice and the Videography. The drama. The war. The death. The rebuilding of the Empire. This literally was Game of Thrones. But with Ants 😂😮