Best Of Ants | BBC Earth

[@alejandromendez488]

Who need Game of Thrones while you can just watch ants.

[@jondrakeflores5084]

Because u wouldnt have a hardon seeing ants banging. Or would you? owo

[@theworld5466]

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[@N4D3-1]

@@jondrakeflores5084 bold words from someone named as Christ.

[@jondrakeflores5084]

@@N4D3-1 leave me alone i died a virgin and got shoved in a cave

[@jondrakeflores5084]

@Ethan Clark ok ethan

[@JoyceGem]

An ant's life is so dramatic, it could be a tv series.

[@finnreinicke4152]

Try to keep them as pets

[@xkilla911]

or a movie

[@user-pm1gb2eo1s]

It’s called Game of Thrones.

[@randommemesweekly4417]

Finnreinicke already doing it

[@greykoko]

ants canada

[@rextunde3870]

“Ants keep slugs alive” *ants proceed to absolutely annihilate the slug...*

[@jack-wr3rj]

Ikr?

[@frankholton9642]

garfield lasagna

[@frankholton9642]

google lasagna recipes g.

[@chickenjesus5095]

More like dirt keeps ants alive

[@raeffealkaratli7590]

Mn I qmmm

[@slaughtered777]

I feel there's one guy who's job is only to stir Lasagne to make all the 'squelching ants' sound for the entire series.

[@SomeRandomVergilFanboy]

Where replies?

[@RAY-THE-WAY]

*slug thinking he won* *Ants with soil* Slug: “why do I hear boss music?”

[@zionbaptiste9418]

You could say the ants soiled his plans....

[@thong8056]

@@zionbaptiste9418 haha.

[@Bloodlyshiva]

Because from the point of view of the ants it IS a boss fight-a puzzle boss at that.

[@Fitchy-ke3wz]

'His job done, he retires from the royal chamber, and dies.'

[@heartless604]

Sounds like ceaser from planet of the apes, Andy Serkis.

[@neofulcrum5013]

@@heartless604it is

[@yoboikamil525]

Litteraly anything : *exists* Ants : N U T R I E N T S

[@oxmsupreme1940]

China:heyy you copy my lines!!

[@fz_tge8865]

Lmfao

Chinese: Nutrients

[@buddythemoth]

Me, a living organism: *sweats profusely*

[@theworld5466]

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[@m.shahryarahmed1647]

I'd like to give a moment of silence for the camera man who had to shrink himself to record the footage

[@joachimwalle3760]

I wonder how they actually do that. The cinematography is amazing, but I don't understand how they're able to get their cameras down into the tunnels AND get such fantastic shots at the same time.

[@aurea.]

@@joachimwalle3760 The ants are paid actors.

[@theworld5466]

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[@supernukey419]

@@joachimwalle3760 ants are blind and don't notice cameras. If they can't put the camera in the nest they sometimes set up fake nests and get an ant queen to settle there

[@m.shahryarahmed1647]

i know

[@mikhailromanovskii1338]

In case you are wondering, they do not always eat the eggs they loot from the defeated nest. Some species of ants carry them home and raise them. You could say "as their own", but it's more like "as slaves". Sometimes ants are so human it's frightening.

[@taowroland8697]

Slavery isn't unique to humans. It is the natural order to subject the weak. Most species just kill them as dead weight.

[@gum1734]

Fr

[@averageamogusenjoyer5240]

Then ants use the grown up "slaves" as breeding machines

[@rayoscrost]

@@averageamogusenjoyer5240 they're infertile. remember?

[@kingc1164]

@Ruby Hikerson and just like that an idiot emerges to bring up human affairs.

[@tomnuttall7621]

Larvae: What’s for dinner, Mum..? Worker Ant : yes exactly.

[@jsmiles28]

Ants are fascinating man

[@whomilitaryroxanne]

Your Teeth Are Sooooo Pretty 😍😍

[@klarabarunovic9841]

@@whomilitaryroxanne 😂

[@CyoPaws]

@@whomilitaryroxanne nooooo

[@theworld5466]

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[@evenif7431]

That stuff with the dirt and the slug was wayyyy to smart 😬 we're so lucky these things are tiny 😅

[@alembess9129]

I got scared and fascinated at the same time when the ants "came up" with the soil solution.

[@ln9296]

*too

[@carsonstasney8586]

Logan Zentz no it is right the word too is used when someone says I am going too

[@ln9296]

@@carsonstasney8586 I am no English major but you are incorrect. "I am going to" is spelled with one o and "I have had too much" is spelled with two o's. Not that it really matters I just find it amusing when people mix the two up. ;)

[@reallyle]

I swear these ants are smarter then me I would have never thought of that

[@Quazi-Moto]

The ants putting dirt on the slug shows a level of problem-solving skills that I would NEVER have expected from them!!! This had to come from a single ant getting an idea to use something to soak up that slime, and either knew dirt was good for the job, or experimented until they found the right material. That, or some saw the benefit of it having happened by accident, understood what had happened well enough to want to employ that method again (which also shows planning ahead), and reproduced the conditions. Either way, that is some kind of impressive behavior for such a small-brained creature. So wild... wow!

[@summerbrown514]

God gave them the skills and knowledge to survive

[@Zavala1]

@@summerbrown514 You might want to think twice about what you are attributing to God. Untold and unnecessary suffering since time immemorial. Countless animals blotted out by other animals whose sole purpose is to create more of itself to do the same ad infinitum. Is this really laudable as a design? Why didn't he just create self-sufficient organisms that need not torture their prey?

[@joanbighorn9778]

@@summerbrown514 God let Epstein traffick children.

[@Wibgloria]

@@Zavala1 god doesn’t exist!

[@bladerj]

no man, they are dumb and just follow instinct and pheromones, humans are the only inteligent species on this planet.....can a ant recogniize itself in the mirror ? /s

[@HeyLittleTown]

Queen: *farts* oopsie Male ant: *INHALES* it's go time

[@Ajay-dy3xw]

Bruh

[@BVK.]

What the heck did I just read. 😫

[@kaylamartin3053]

The oopsie 😂😂 Like, oh , pardon me, how barbaric for a queen such as mwahh lol 😂

[@smashi4088]

Relatable

[@rezastella777]

The French: decapitate the king Ants : Oui

[@frankholton9642]

ants cannot talk SILLY

[@hectordv2549]

Woooosh

[@frankholton9642]

@RS - 06FJ - Dolphin Sr PS (1553) My mistake, i did not realize

[@thedoomslayer4167]

@@frankholton9642 r/woosh

[@supernukey419]

The 4th Horseman there are 4 Os. r/woosh does not allow wooshes form outside Reddit; only r/woooosh allows wooshes from KZbin

[@idkg2296]

Ant Eggs: The Forbidden Rice

[@melvinhotdogman6926]

Hmmm, Yummy

[@yougot69supermonkeyb21]

Extra juice

[@A360-j5w]

It's eaten in some parts of the world. Those eggs would be juicy and full of proteins.

[@cozmic5655]

Except if your a rival colony then it’s fair game

[@itmeran1485]

No steamer needed

[@yashsaraswat6822]

So let me get this straight A male got attracted by the queen's "smell" Followed it Got ambushed Had to "John wick" his wings to shed weight to boink And then boinks And then... Dies. Okay.

[@abloodorange5233]

Thats his purpose. To boink

[@frankholton9642]

who isjohn whick

[@frankholton9642]

wick

[@alembess9129]

Pretty much it, LOL. Poor male ant.

[@frankholton9642]

who is king bogman

[@elijahlungu2769]

The final attack felt like a scene from Game of Thrones...cold

[@crypto217]

He can say it in a way that gets you in at first then gets you deeper and deeper the more you watch. And he always has the perfect thing to say for every scene

[@regularm3924]

so when an ant queen get bored ,she decide to create an army ,cool trick

[@umar_ragnark6233]

👍🏻😆

[@soyabKhan-xk7sd]

Who fuck her

[@jansherroshen]

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[@urbanizedpizza]

@@soyabKhan-xk7sd the man nigass who die tho

[@sarahshahid836]

Hunter x hunter Chimera ant Arc.....

[@dante-9933]

Great now I feel like ants are crawling on my body.

[@autotune2]

*I felt that.*

[@charlesjohnson2465]

My charger fell off the bed as I was smoking a bowl hit and my phone on the coffee table watching this...man did I ever jump lol tripped myself out had to lay down

[@RichieRichMD]

Indeed, I feel they are crawlings on my balls.

[@autotune2]

@@RichieRichMD i-

[@charlesjohnson2465]

@@RichieRichMD lmfao

[@tigornomics]

Then some guys pour molten aluminum into the soil and transform the entire ant emperor into a valuable work of art.

[@alembess9129]

I saw that video.

[@Ceej3]

It’s always done on an empty ant hill

[@shwetazarkar5137]

Really? Ho no!

[@contrnsmagnificndjoobngtaint]

i think that was termites

[@indrazable]

@@contrnsmagnificndjoobngtaint : no, it was ants nest under the ground.. termites nest is like a tower can't pour the hot molten aluminium it'll break it up

[@georgewaddilove4891]

The male ant be like: ‘I like ‘em big, I like ‘em CHUNKY’

[@fredychicano654]

CHUNKEY!!!!

[@BadBame962]

King termites are the same but at an entirely different level

[@lilreith2603]

Question: How do you get these amazingly well-focused shots without disturbing the ant colonies?

[@mototechy7362]

by being god

[@KimiRaikkonen123]

by being a camera ant.

[@josuafraser4865]

They have camera ants. And very nimble easy bendy sticks that they put the small ant cameras on the end of the sticks and jus put them down the spare exit holes. Easy access to the main halls of the ant nest

[@HansFlamme]

We all know the camera guy is amazing. Surviving asteroids and zombie apocalypse and shit. Ofc he can get amazing ant footage.

[@Stauder02]

interior shots are made using ants in captivity inside a artifcial nest with museum glass

[@always.elevate]

The slug getting eaten was crazy

[@frankholton9642]

hello hayden smith that was crazy and a feel bad for the slug poorslug okay thank you - frank

[@frankholton9642]

@@bornt2rule no thank you

[@muibe123]

Poor slug 😔😔😔

[@joshuac2391]

Frank, it’s nature

[@fairtoowell9503]

only catapillars seem to get away, even with living in a home. pinchi mariposas...

[@damanjotsingh7478]

I just can't imagine the amount of hardwork and time is implemented in each of the videos... Speechless..........

[@kaylamartin3053]

Yes loads of hard work, many, many lives were lost😂

[@brettwerner7128]

Man this guy is good. I felt horrified when he described them being annihilated. “The once great ruler torn apart” lol.

[@lordeppiothe1]

pretty sure it's Andy Serkis, he has a great voice to narrate documentaries.

[@KylieRos3]

Ants have always fascinated me. I knew they were smart but I never expected to see problem solving with the slug.

[@justyourordinarytom6528]

Not rly a problem solving. Ants are programmed to soak up anything sticky with dirt

[@ianhogben3472]

it's swarm intelligence

[@Animal.KingdomExplorers]

It's just amazing that a documentary of this quality is uploaded on KZbin for free. My children loves learning about the ocean and the environment, and this channel really gives them something to focus on, rather than their smartphones.

[@276sedvlintsax7]

Editor: How much sound effects do you want to use Director: YES....

[@Dre-np9yk]

This is actually how it sounds

[@erickchristensen746]

Tech has come a long way even back in 2011. Recently we even recorded the vibrations of male Jumping Spider mating dances. The sounds are crazy wicked you should go watch some

[@AndorianBlues]

A lot of the sounds are probsably faked but I have heard ants walking in real life (hundreds of them walking over crisp dried leaves) and it sounded similar

[@XxCupcakeHoarderxX]

That male ant in the fourth one was an absolute unit. LMAO.

[@havilavi472]

I know like the heck what was that thing eating steroids and chicken 😂

[@dw3134]

Absolute SIMP more like.

[@jimboonie9885]

He lasted like 2 seconds

[@HansFlamme]

The entry was epic but what can you do against the mob

[@lot.bajrami]

@@jimboonie9885 and died

[@paulzheng5327]

5:39 you can say he .... ‘came and went’ 😂😂

[@yaboiwonka8913]

Shoot and scoot

[@yaboiwonka8913]

Blow the load and hit the road

[@retrorampager5373]

Cum N’ Go

[@yaboiwonka8913]

@@retrorampager5373 skeet and flee

[@havilavi472]

Y'all some funny mother fuckers 🤣🤣

[@chimedemon]

Humans: so what’s it like to be an ant? Ant: ever play Warhammer 40k? Humans: yeah? Ant: yeah.

[@goldfishthedestroyer3233]

Ant hill STANDS!

[@DonJulio4649]

These ants smarter than my co workers

[@kakoleebordoloi3265]

wat

[@johnyuri6860]

Well done Antman. I knew you would be a great cameraman.

[@Random-zs6wt]

Underrated comment

[@BVK.]

I love this joke, where was the deserve attention for this comment@?@?@?

[@HaziqNasri]

Me: Finds this entertaining Me when ants are in my house: Do you know what are the consequences?

[@yaboiwonka8913]

WW Ant

[@idoitforthememes6011]

Me: hippity hoppity get off my property *sprays Raid*

[@tearex12345]

Me: *hippity hoppity your lives are my property* proceeds to squish.

[@jujooguppy4567]

After that ending, all I hear is... And now the rains, weep o'er his halls, with not a soul to hear....

[@matoarmy999]

12:35 "nothing can go to waste, not even a royal carcass" The way he said it got me CHILLS

[@Cisco_24]

We really need to thank Hank Pym for making this footage possible.

[@journeymanuel7069]

Yes and Ant Man and Wasp

[@DomichuYT]

Imagine having your body parts ripped off and eaten and then dying just to get some...you know

[@Duros360]

...wait how do you do it?

[@tyesoncollins331]

Sounds like me on a Friday night to be fair haha

[@kitkat7225]

O_O

[@sanssgt5150]

Who knew ants could have wars We will call it “ *THE GREAT ANT WAR* “

[@davidbhart]

I mean, "army ants" might have given it away

[@savary5050]

Ants have been fighting as long as they have existed. The great ant war has been going on for millions of years and it ain’t showing any signs of stopping now.

[@osdenza2]

​@@davidbhartnot really, fire ants have nothing to do with fire

[@Jop3lius]

just imagine all the ant battles going on around the world right at this very moment.

[@BVK.]

But to think of it, the ants size on earth is like humans on a sun-sized planet, there's many ants civilization! 😳

[@abdullahiji8642]

Thanks for the camera-ant the helped making this masterpiece!

[@phinjotamang6106]

Hats off 👏 🙌 👌 ur valuable photography....salute🖖🖖🖖

[@rhythmfield]

This is insane - brilliant - kind of disturbing - better than any horror movie

[@lucycorrales435]

exactly!

[@RichieRichMD]

I won't deny that as fascinating as they are, I felt a sudden impulsive desire to "Raid" that whole colony when they were barbequing that poor slug.

[@abuhuraira3685]

Team work divides the task And multiplies the success

[@jenauk6090]

Thanks 😊 BBC Earth 🌎 🙏 ...

[@SammyPlayzRoblox]

20:00 “Leave me here go on- make the coral proud....”

[@arlaeiss9482]

nooooo im actually emotionally attached to every insect hererrr

[@MsDADDYFATSAC]

Nobody- Ant in your backyard- "Execute Order 66"

[@animekingdom4918]

😂

[@shimmereyes8984]

12:51Long live the queen... THIS IS GROSE MAN. *It's own larvae feeding on the corpse of its mother. What an offspring*

[@theworld5466]

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[@jimboonie9885]

*DOWN WITH THE MONARCHY**

[@duv1544]

Slug:aaaahhhhh!!! The cameraman:most intresting

[@rextunde3870]

2:39 “male *and* pulls off own wing” 🤣🤣

[@aurea.]

"No no, allow me."

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

These clips are fascinating, and somewhat creepy in parts. But I've learned to thoroughly appreciate them over the last couple of years. There's a channel called Ants Canada and the guy whose channel it is, is a real expert in the subject. He raises colonies from a single queen. Those first eggs (in the first video) become "nanitics", and they're smaller and shorter-lived than the future generations. But they're the ones raised by the queen, who turns the muscle tissue from where her wings were attached into a sort of soup for the larvae. She won't eat anything until the nanitics can fetch food themselves. The channel's owner is so dedicated to ants that he's having a house built with a two-storey "ant room" in it! If you like ants, I thoroughly recommend you go watch him.

[@justyourordinarytom6528]

Nah hes an asshole gives incorrect info on purpose for sake of entertainment

[@dead_vibes]

"They take everything, including new borns." Ant: I'll be taking this, yoink!

[@unbekannt2898]

how clean and tidy these animals are.. beautiful pictures BBC!

[@mathiuseden9605]

Little do majority of the people watching this emphasise just how long they've had to spend when watching them lay and Grow then hatch months of photographic supervision

[@santiagosilva2528]

thanks

[@ghostgamingxd7881]

So true

[@theworld5466]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmOlmY2FmNeqnbc

[@abloodorange5233]

The sound of the slug being eaten was revolting😵😫

[@braydin4601]

Ikr

[@Giniro_No_Suisei]

You must watch monster bugs war.

[@codybaxter9939]

Love animal documentaries shows that even small living things can still conduct wars and have a hierarchy system

[@poged9133]

Ant raider: RAID STEAL THE GOLD Ants:NO OUR GOLD Me:so eggs are gold so its basically a bank robbery

[@randommemesweekly4417]

video title: "best of ants" me, an ant fenatic: *immediantly clicks*

[@awantedboi]

Salute to the tiny cameraman who went in there to film this! Or maybe they are human-sized ants

[@theworld5466]

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[@ThreeStrikes015WW]

The Cameraman is Ant-Man.

[@bencaspar]

I heard all of this was made by stop-motion

[@yolandajean4347]

You guys are dumb 🙄

[@arielfzal2424]

@@ThreeStrikes015WW lol

[@vonxoliver]

Just to remember, these things were so big millions years ago

[@runertje550]

Ants literally have empires and fight wars... this is so amazing

[@saadqureshi7127]

Better than game of thrones

[@sunb678]

"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war" - an ant, probably

[@runertje550]

@@sunb678 Ant Sun Tzu

[@islanddreams4805]

I always wonder how they get cameras into these spaces. Truly the best filming.

[@P4RaDis3]

The camera work is so amazing! 👍

[@davidryan5482]

Who else felt sorry for that slug? Brutal!

[@mranderson9813]

I love how the Xenomorphs are based on ants

[@GeraltORivia]

5:32 the delivery of that killed me for some reason

[@hoanganhngo-u6x]

I'm blown away by the value you provide in your videos. 🚀 Thank you for your hard work and dedication!

[@captainwilliam3920]

I searched “ants” and this was the first result

[@theworld5466]

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[@DhanPalSingh78]

Great video. Complete ant life cycle:- Ant worker, eggs, queen, bee, ant battle field, looting, fighting. 👍👌👏

[@rachnapawar3220]

Ants are hard working and adorable.

[@dre9813]

"Slowly the victim is sliced up"😭😭. The way he said it so elegantly 😂

[@gigas81]

Queen Ant: Im the one charge! You will listen to me! Daughter Ant: You "were" in charge! Past tense! My time for Queen is now! Matricide!

[@Wolfgodmak]

Amazing how all the Queens dont attack each other for dominance and control

[@dayangmarikit6860]

The soldiers and workers do all of the dirty work for them.

[@jimboonie9885]

@@dayangmarikit6860 So the queen doesn’t die on the frontlines. A queen is useless dead

[@King_Minos64]

@@dayangmarikit6860 I’m curious why they prune off queens instead of just having multiple queens like many other species of ants. Maybe resource scarcity? Idk.

[@justyourordinarytom6528]

@@King_Minos64 its easier to care for one productive queen than for five unproductive

[@lot.bajrami]

@@King_Minos64 yeah I looked it up and it seems that queens need alot of proteins and when that is scarse, ants eliminate the queen is weaker and can not produce eggs like the other. On rare cases workers go all they way and kill the last queen, dont know why exactly. Workers survive a bit more and then they also die without a queen.

[@RaphaeLoh01]

'Empire of the Desert Ants' was a great documentary!

[@PanginooTV]

KZbin: hey wanna watch some ants Me: nah Im good Im about to go to slee- KZbin: its the best of ants! Me: WHOA NOW THATS INTERESTING I NEED TO WATCH THAT NOW

[@theworld5466]

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[@Docterwmd]

After seeing how ants can be, I now have a deep respect for anteaters

[@djmax45238]

0:32 Baby Ants: "Who you calling a pinhead"

[@Blitz_Zayne04]

Is there a full version to the last part? Sounded like it would continue again.

[@tylerkapteyn5830]

Id love to know as well

[@GuardianOwl]

That is the end of the documentary, perhaps it is reference to something else in the video. Google "natural world empire of the desert ants" and the full documentary will be the first result.

[@AlexVista8]

Ant queen belong to the streets

[@Turnoutburndown]

Boss up.

[@Jluyoungzone]

"Ant queen belongs to the streets" ~ Ant Future

[@noyq3684]

The male ant was a simp.

[@XYKelseyyy]

Like yo mama oooooooh

[@nuncio21]

😂😂😂

[@horsehorsehorsehorse8500]

Can we all give respect to the camera crew? They can literally do anything.

[@muibe123]

They also help those ants slicing the slug piece by piece. Imagine that pain! This is one crazy and cruelest job on earth

[@ThomasBauer95]

5:46 DRIVER ANTS KEEP SLUG ALIVE 9:35 "slowly the victim is sliced up"

[@nguyentrungquan6915]

Wow that's Awsome Dude

[@conchitinabernardo4370]

Amazing footage! Bravo to the patient camera man for documenting these amazing images !

[@unhandydaddy5117]

That slug got absolutely annihilated holy shit

[@Ianz505]

I honestly love these videos about ants, there so cool

[@BENDISCOVERY8602]

It's great to see videos like this, hope you will produce more good footage to serve viewers.

[@funteck_etv]

Excellent job done well👍

[@HybrisParExcellence]

That is exactly what I needed in these awful times

[@thomasjones4893]

How the hell did they film this. The shots are incredible!

[@omairsh8]

I’ve always thought Nature documentary camera crew were the best

[@believerinhope_3832]

A seperated nest they built

[@Marlemento]

I'm Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson, Here at Ants-in-My-Eyes Johnson's Electronics. I mean, there's so many ants in my eyes! And there's so many TVs, microwaves, radios I think, I can't-- I'm not 100% sure what we have here in stock, because I can't see anything.

[@its-abit-fishyraver3974]

Thank God they are that small and not as big as cat or dogs

[@enby_kensei]

Oh hell yeah this is the content I've been waiting for

[@Nishkid641]

One of few reasons I love winter: bugs, ants, insects go to...."hell".

[@finnreinicke4152]

They don't die they just hibernate

[@Nishkid641]

@@finnreinicke4152 yup. One time I even dug up an ant hills under the snow but no ant coming out. When I came back when it got warm, I saw bunch

[@isuzuke]

yup fukc the ants

[@crazypirate14U]

Same here less grass and insects more freedom😂✌

[@thefishisraw117]

What if God did that to you how would you feel?

[@void3793]

The basically there is an ongoing ant war that has gone on for centuries and the strongest empire wins. Interesting way for evolution to take it's place.

[@camarillo3420]

Facebook's a group where we all pretend to be ants living in an ant colony brought me here...

[@apajohn2]

Outstanding work

[@Mops007]

Such tiny creatures, such big impact!