Planet Ant - Life Inside The Colony - BBC

[@kira-dk2mx]

I've learned more about ants in this documentary than I have in my entire life. Seriously, there were some things that I had no idea ants could do here.

[@hjjjj7888]

Yesss

[@scottmartin472]

if oyu want to see cool stories and suff about ants and a guy who has ants whatch ants canada maybe

[@kira-dk2mx]

@@scottmartin472 I'm already subbed to the guy. It's a great channel.

[@scottmartin472]

@@kira-dk2mx noice

[@franimal86]

And this is only ONE species of ants. Farmer ants are so cool!! Look up all the other species though. They’re amazing. Honeypot ants, army ants, weaver ants…there are over 12,000 different species!

[@x00Warhawk00x]

Ants certainly are amazing. I always love hearing about all of the different types of them, and all of the different strategies they use to accomplish their goals. This documentary was particularly in-depth and taught me a lot of interesting information about the leaf cutter ants and ants in general. Thanks for that. Also, the old comment system is a welcome sight to see. The new comment system is an absolute train wreck.

[@Why_It]

Probably about the third time I've watched this doc. It amazes me every time.

[@josiffexplosiff1]

Jesus Christ

[@rosegalbloom7237]

I want to close my eyes and drift to sleep but I can't stop watching .. fascinating

[@thestratilosopher42]

Literally me at 1:30am last night...

[@clipsofmeplaying3682]

Literally me at 2:07am

[@jordanthegamer6634]

Literally me at 2:19

[@shinigami1315]

Yo stop same... 3:30am lol

[@Jellybeansatdusk]

It’s only 12:28 for me but I have to get up early tomorrow and move to my new apartment in a different state. Still can’t put it down 😂

[@joshuak4646]

I've been on an ant binge for a couple of days now. They're so amazing!

[@adamlee7631]

You should see the channel AntsCanada. Its amazing!

[@ryanpierce3261]

You should check out Ants Canada

[@gavinbernard6975]

Joshua K same

[@QuadroMemes]

Joshua K Same! I've even started my own Tetremorium colony from scratch after watching Ants Canada LOL

[@yinsomniac4128]

Mice are also as interestong as ants. mice are like, just wierd and really good at surving.

[@DasDoom]

Accidentally stepped on an ant, and then watched a separate ant pick it up and carry it away, and then sat and watched a hour and a half long documentary lol

[@boot1519]

They have graveyards they make smells that say they are dead so thats why he picked it up

[@josiffexplosiff1]

Do you have a job?

[@14yearold85]

@@josiffexplosiff1 I do and I just did the same thing pretty much

[@Rare.99]

@@josiffexplosiff1 people have days off ya know

[@ricardopurnell3923]

An ant walked on my tablet and then Dying inside of Greece on a plastic plate

[@wesleysmith5737]

As an ant keeper and aspiring entomologist, there are so many times I'm catching my self going "WHO DOESN'T KNOW THIS" and then I catch my self and say "barely anyone knows half of this"

[@miriamsamaniego3335]

Show off

[@xploration1437]

Nerd

[@annebruecks7381]

@@xploration1437 In a Homer Simpson voice. Neeeeerd!

[@9622paige]

Used to love these kind of movies as a kid! I still am fascinated by them lol. I once was fixing a flower bed and got attacked by a colony of ants. I had rashes from the bites for DAYS! I don’t envy the people digging this up lol

[@BLAZENYCBLACKOPS]

I can’t help but imagine that we too are like the ants and something much more advanced is studying us as well.

[@DadsCigaretteRun]

🤯 stop it

[@lynnleigha580]

That's what I think, I'd definitely like to know what sort of hellish experiment I'm in, Because mines broke, I need a new one, lol!

[@JehRoniMo11]

Lmao.. its been years I've been saying we're in someone's terrarium lol 😆 maybe God's, or something we don't understand but would call God anyway! 🤣🤣🐜🐜🐜

[@eyeTHC]

I’m 30 minutes in and thought the same thing and was looking for a comment like this

[@Dionteonedaymorris]

There was a show called GOD but it was only like 4 episodes but had the same idea

[@marksullivan6319]

Wow a large colony cuts the same weight of plant as a cow eats daily. That's impressive, glad I checked this video out. I learned a lot.

[@jtc9098]

It's amazing how creatures so tiny can be so phenomenal.

[@lizzperrin6044]

I know right, I agree...

[@jeremiahpepper7885]

Its crazy that I've been pulled into this video through auto play and recommended and evertime I find this amazing

[@Raythe]

so, what can we learn from ants? **instant shoves a pitchfork through a colony* Ant colony: apocalypse! every ant for themselves! run! the end is nigh!

[@irobott3713]

Get On the Ball Once there was a golfer whose drive landed on an anthill. Rather than move the ball, he decided to hit it where it lay. He gave a mighty swing. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants exploded from the spot. Everything but the golfball. It sat in the same spot. So he lined up and tried another shot. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants went flying again. The golf ball didn't even wiggle. Two ants survived. One dazed ant said to the other, "Whoa! What are we going to do?" The other ant said "If we're gonna get out of this alive we better get on the ball"

[@nativeamericanfeather9948]

Absolutely fascinating little things. I love watching them. The other day a small one was trying to carry the dead body of a much bigger ant. He didnt give up. They are so organized,resourceful,& smart

[@trevorrubbert5221]

P

[@antsriazhang5450]

I saw the same thing! They are so smart.

[@alexs3907]

7:25 "as we can see here, the adults are attaching the camera" hmmmmm I've seen this similar behavior before.....

[@FurbyGender]

This was an incredibly fascinating documentary! I found it after looking for ways to destroy fire ant colonies. I rarely watch documentaries as long as this one but it was well worth the time spent on it. The only part I did not watch was the preying mantis and the ants battle it out. I couldn't stand to see it so I turned my head until it was over.

[@Derek2k]

Hopefully you have a respect now for them

[@animeloveer97]

@@Derek2k sure but they still cant be living in my drivewAY LOL

[@markfrost2707]

@@animeloveer97 why not?

[@pamelaheriges3654]

I appreciate ants and have the greatest respect for them. I lived in an apartment where ants were a seasonal problem. I used bleach spray as a deterrent to eliminate their trails, and direct new paths away from my home. I NEVER used insecticides, and never sprayed them directly. When you live near an ant colony, you have to learn to get a long. Live and let live They are more helpful to the planet than my species. We destroy, they maintain.

[@chrilin5107]

Agree 100 % we had lots out on our patio...then they discovered the house, got jars and kept everything locked up, used citronella to ruin their tracks... never got rid of them all from inside but it was quite cool watching them outside (they did break up the patio tiling but it was quite old a anyway) they're fascinating.

[@nathangibson6832]

Bit of a stupid comment, we maintain, we create, we destroy.

[@qassandraable]

I am now an Ant Friend, but when I was in 8th grade I was a hunter of a resident Harvester Ant (pogonomyrmex california) queen. But unlike these guys, I equipped. A raid took days of planning. Tubs of water to stand in, in Dad's irrigation boots, dig like a dervish...I had about 15 minutes before the furious red ants bridged the water in the tubs. If I didn't get the queen by then, it wouldn't happen anyway, because it was an adobe soil with a hard pan that stopped my 12 year old self like cement.(Ants jeering from the underside of the hard pan, God Save the Queen). I got larva, pupa, ,egg, got BITTEN every time, never even saw the queen. Bite would swell and itch and burn for a week. I had modified my Uncle Miltons Ant Farm with chambers and tubes, rather like this. Those cameras, wow.

[@mooham8762]

The fact they found one ant in all that earth among 2million ants is such an amazing achievement

[@CoreyMillionaire2029]

The queen. Amazing how there's not a king ant in a colony unlike bees and termites.

[@KennethU]

@@CoreyMillionaire2029bees are queens too. Most insects are matriarchal

[@twstf8905]

5:15 The 30 year old scientist, "Adam Hart," from the University of Gloucester, has been studying ants for over 15 years?!

[@numberpie]

i was studying ants when i was 12, so...

[@goodmorningryan1549]

Same

[@knightlycatm.3171]

yes, that can happen. ants are, as shown here, pretty interesting.

[@cilarraza5097]

He said 50

[@jeanmeslier9491]

Well, not all kids are glued to X-Box or Wargames or whatever the latest Circus is. There was a kid in the Northwestern US who discovered the most complete fossilized specimen of some dinosaur ever found. He directed the dig (fossil was on his family's property) and lectured scientists at Universities on the finding, recovery and study of this fossil. He was 15. Julius Caesar was a general at 17. How old was Jean d'Arc (Joan of Ark for Americans) when she inspired and led an army, I think 17. One problem that Americans and to some extent the British, have is they try to keep their sexually mature teen aged children "children", too long. And go to great lengths to see that they are kept ignorant of the social and productive skills to handle adulthood.

[@marxtheenigma873]

Ants make noise. I learned something today.

[@sashypooh409]

I was equally shocked when I found out Giraffes make high frequency sounds that we can't hear with the naked ear, but they can hear from a mile away!

[@hjjjj7888]

@@sashypooh409I've learned something new today naked ear hehehe

[@stephaniefetters7568]

@sky man- they are sickos, I tell ya! 😅😂 But seriously, did you see the size of her? Simply amazing.

[@datboijosh5150]

Everything does even plants my G

[@brittiesimons2751]

@@stephaniefetters7568 what’d they say lol

[@Alexandros.Mograine]

leaf cutter ant jaws literally work like a can opener :D

[@randalthor3919]

Now after 18 years, I'm still not over the death of the kids ant companion in Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

[@netflixdude7512]

Me too dude

[@kyeraff]

SPOILER ALERT!

[@epizzle9232]

Omg! I thought of this too while watching this documentary! That was such a sad part! I loved that ant and that movie!

[@xxxsaraHelloxxx]

I remember seeing the cool honey i shrunk the kids attraction at Disneyland year’s ago

[@jamiemiller7316]

Oh, I haven't thought about that in literally decades. That was so sad.

[@000FireRainHavoc000]

Yeah they truly are similar to how we humans worked and continue to work in manufacturing technology but the big difference (which they fail to mention) is what they take from the environment they give back twice as much with ZERO pollutants and they dont screw each other over for damn percentage.

[@itstriplem2069]

exactly, we can learn a lot from ants

[@Velvetx4cove]

We fail to realize that if we work together instead of putting others down to maintain a status we would have achieved greater things by now. Instead, we part too much effort into hindering education for all and slowing the potential of our growth. With poverty, poor education, and industrialization of our world, we're kind of slowing down our own chance at truly evolving.

[@xaviercopeland2789]

Ants don’t really have a lot going on and don’t need nearly as much.

[@kokoluvsu]

Now that I've watched this and started to watch the movie Antz, its funny as fck. Z is talking to a therapist and is like 'my dad left me when I was a larva he just flew away' and 'it's hard being the middle child of a family of 5 million' 🤣🤣 gosh I love Ants/z. K, back to the movie..........

[@xploration1437]

oK

[@xxxgames4458]

@@xploration1437 ok

[@ABKKEN-uj6vr]

😂😂

[@slipperycatfish9817]

@@xxxgames4458 ok

[@pamelapayne8883]

NO WAAAAAAY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE💖🖤💗 MOVIES WHEN MY 21 YR OLD WAS A LIL' LARVAE 🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜🐜 (shout outs to JLo, Woody Allen, Sylester Stallone, Sharon Stone, etc) dvd's in my storage)

[@Trinsicity]

It's amazing to see how they all work together as one industrious unit. Every citizen of the colony has a role to play and they stick to it no matter what. Be interesting to find a human-sized alien race like the ants, but one that could communicate through a proper language and advance themselves technologically. They'd either try take over the universe or be the shining example of a peaceful society.

[@romainbourque]

They don't stick to it no matter what, check out my previous comment. Colony gets very large and some stop working but if you take those lazy ants and start them in a new colony by themselves they start working their little asses off again!!!! Amazing!

[@miclausamuel-virgil8519]

Can you give a link for it?@@romainbourque

[@343blech]

XD "Adam... I think I've had enough of this ant" lol

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

The tiniest creatures are more than capable of doing the heaviest lifting in order to do their jobs to keep their colony going. Amazing workers.

[@alyssawalters5770]

"What can we learn from ants?" Human immediately stabs a shovel into the hive

[@nissanskyline985]

I mean, at least they rescued the ants from literally having their whole colony destroyed? Lol.

[@Alisteroflight]

@@nissanskyline985 they killed them after they were done with the experiment

[@20PINKluvr]

And then the soldiers swarm the shovel and the hand holding it

[@20PINKluvr]

@@nissanskyline985 they got the queen..aka the nucleus of the colony. Never mind a few hundred killed ..the queen and a handful of ants are what's needed

[@rumyfrogg]

@Alyssa Walters Blaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Funny.....

[@iomoon3608]

"using their own brood as glue guns." Gee.. babies that are useful for once!

[@serfsup6544]

+iomoon ikr

[@miguelreyes7777]

idk what your talking about but February 25 th. when you wrote that comment that's my birthday!😀😀🎂🎉

[@I_am_a_cat_]

one of the dumbest things I've ever read right there. not you OP.

[@vegtt8445]

Lol

[@palebluedot7435]

Cat i guess that makes yours dumber ... does thatbmakr mine even worse. ... nope i was pointing out you being mean so its slightly better

[@nissan_skyline]

Man, this shit is incredible. I can’t even keep a plant alive for longer than a few weeks and these ants are farming their own food.

[@ypfigthshorts6658]

You gotta pet the plants, everything is alive plants feel when they are touched. Talking to them is also really good

[@jasonguinn132]

How do you think you get your food?

[@doityourself329]

My wife cant either. We go to home depot and the plants cringe

[@nissan_skyline]

@@doityourself329 LOL since then I've discovered house plants that don't require as much maintenance and now I own several. Like, various types of monsteras, marantas and cacti. They're pretty and perfect for those of us who suck at being plant parents lol

[@doityourself329]

Well get her some...thank you for the suggestions.

[@jay3forthree847]

um.... why is the ant queen not moving it's like she's drugged and she's only used for breeding and it's like she's a prisoner in her own colony

[@shortclips8289]

Jay 3 forthree84 good question

[@LifeOfTheParty323]

That's exactly what she's for. She has no authority. She's not like Queen Elizabeth. She was produced from another colony, was a princess ant and once she finds a mate, she becomes queen and just gets gang banged.

[@nursemelanieb]

LosAngeles323 thats actually hardly true...she was just a whore in her young years (for about a day-which is =to human college years), she stored the sperm basically forever and then yea she is held captive by her daughters. They say what she does and when..more like a cinderella story without the handsome prince.Check out Ants Canada's "POV of a queen mother ant" - very enlightening!1

[@princenadroj9766]

@IVIS CRUZ yeah, she has all her meals brought to her, she is cared for and groomed daily and has hundreds of guards protecting her, I wouldnt want to move anywhere either.

[@princenadroj9766]

Not exactly, the workers are just as much slaves to her as she is to them. Every ant in the colony relies on the Queen's pheremones in order to recognize which colony they belong to.

[@fuzzythefluffywolfaj2567]

From watching iPhones being dropped from 100 feet, to watching a documentary about ants... and that my friends is the wonder of KZbin

[@EC-oo8fx]

...to watching cancer clickbait

[@fixfireleo]

just be glad you didnt need to get there via the kardashians.

[@irischen05]

To watching pokemon go

[@I_am_a_cat_]

there's alot stranger things on youtube... how the fuck can anyone seriously enjoy watching someone else play Pokemon Go? I got bored playing that game after a day, can't even imagine watching that garbage.

[@tekvest]

KZbin will catch you up and tear through hours of your day.

[@kyeraff]

Fell asleep watching and had a dream that the ants formed into a person and talked me into killing the older guy. Crazy.

[@NicBush]

I want what you're smoking

[@ea1468]

Since when can you remember dreams

[@Andronicus87]

Ants are communists! Fuk em!

[@wyattkeithley4580]

@@ea1468 have you really never remembered a dream, I have plenty I remember. Just last night I was smoking the biggest blunt for a few hours at a party and was gonna pull a huge stunt at a mansion pointless but fun

[@sandracmyers]

He IS a little annoying lol

[@NYJimbo]

Truly fascinating and incredible creatures. But if you little guys come into my house, I'm going to serve you a cocktail of sugar water and borax.

[@lindalee7322]

Diatomeceous Earth (DE) works great. Just a little spread on an ant hill (even fire ant mounds) kills the ants, and they don't relocate. Inside your house and on your garden food, make sure you use Food grade Diatomeceous Earth. Read instructions. In fact, look it up on the internet. Don't inhale it or you'll find out why it kills ALL BUGS. Actually, we can end up with silicosis from inhaling too much. I had to deal with silicosis because I used the outdoor grade DE inside with and poofed too much off it along the walls in our home. The air conditioning kept the fine DE circulating in the air and I was inhaling it without knowing it. All bugs end up dying because they've walkes through the DE fine dust. They clean their legs. The DE goes into their stomach and basically cuts them up internally. I took care of my parents roach and spider problem. They had earwicks and silver fish, and carpet beetles, too, in addition to mole crickets and fire ants outside. We moved into a place that was 40+ years old. Criminey! There were not only roaches, there were also Wolf spiders, Brown Recluses, and other bugs inhabiting the place. Pest control service was a joke. I used DE inside and out. The only bugs we see now are small and dead. I haven't had to put down DE since last summer. Thank God!

[@mitchdickson254]

Borax and Boric Acid don't work on fire ants. They just eat it like candy.

[@tjayrogers2307]

Linda Lee geitjiyh a day kid

[@JessicaJohnson-mu2mq]

Vuv

[@JessicaJohnson-mu2mq]

Vuvu

[@bodysrock]

When they showed those ants that survive on water and how they all united to don't drown it just made me so happy to see how they all worked together.

[@bean8700]

I WANT THAT ANT FARM!!!!!!!!

[@easynamecuz1634]

U still want it?

[@The_Bird_Bird_Harder]

We need to know. Do you still want the farm?

[@crickettgaming4030]

Dude we need to know

[@crickettgaming4030]

@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder prolly not

[@gladtobeattheexit7385]

My brother had one when we were young. He had a big aquarium where u could see all their tunnels. One night we came home and they had escaped! They were all over the house. 😲 And my Dad was soooo pissed off!! Lol 😁🤣

[@Xolomilco]

I didn't know ants also communicated via sound. That's amazing

[@darkmoonthedirewolf9231]

@@muscainlapte8409 did you watch the video?

[@stevenearlsmith2595]

Darkmoon The Direwolf, stupid question. M Bud just happens to be far smarter than the ant experts.

[@hofmeister15]

This is so awsome . n fun to learn and watch.. Anyone who wants dinossuume5&. Well we got insects and animals. That are way way cooler

[@mercierjanice]

I wish there was way to actually communicate with ants Think of all the incredible ways we could communicate with these amazing ants!!!!

[@mercierjanice]

Time to take HUGE step forward and find away to ACTUALLY COMMUNICATE WITH THESE AMAZING CREATURES!!! ALSO WITH BEES AS WELL!!!

[@jacobellis1050]

Calling it now that one ant has a serious case of PTSD thanks to them throwing dirt on her

[@discodiscord7202]

That guy loves ants so much he doesn't even care he's getting bit. Badass

[@Pantherking916]

It is amazing to think that with all our size, "intelligence", technology, science & communication, we STILL can't put a group of 20 people together without major differences of opinion yet here are TWO MILLION tiny ants ALL working together without a solitary problem.

[@jamestomlin5525]

Leaf cutters are an incredible variety. Some of the smartest in the ant family in my opinion, and in Japan there is a species that cuts mushrooms and other fungus

[@heisenburger1899]

There are no species of leafcutters in Japan

[@jamestomlin5525]

@@heisenburger1899 yes there are, but they cut fungus instead

[@heisenburger1899]

@@jamestomlin5525 no there litteraly isn’t, atta acromyrmex and associates live only in the americas 💀

[@twisted1800]

33:55 Ants are like "YO!! WTF Human!!...Battle Stations!!, Battle Stations!!"

[@alikaperdue]

@34:32 - The obvious next question is: when you stick a dull syringe into their bundle and suck out the air... do the ants on the outside start to drown or do the ant pull closer together to compensate. ie: is the reduction in the size of the ant bundle decrease with air pressure, because the ants react to pressure, or do the ants in the center have an awareness of what is happening to ants on the outside? Or maybe it won't tell us this. But what does happen when you suck out some of the air from their pocket?

[@lindalee7322]

I keep saying, "Wow!" out loud. I am so impressed. Thank you for doing the study. Thank you for uploading this tremendously great documentary on these ants. I subscribed to your channel for more. I've added your video to my Nature playlist.

[@rafaelrazo3272]

They don’t seem of this world, they are incredibly powerful

[@Untrustedlife]

They should have introduced some other insect predators so the soldiers had stuff to do

[@MugenMidnight]

i wish i had channel bazed om ant wars or zomthin

[@MugenMidnight]

im to buzy with gaming content

[@alestiiidaeno_last3075]

Would've been too much work to balance predator prey mechanics. It also would have interfered with tests. Besides, I doubt the soldiers complain that their home is not getting constantly sacked.

[@jesusandstephforever5733]

No!! You want the ants to die and start freaking out,at least they took some fungus from the chambers which made the solder as to protect their eggs. i think that's enough!!!

[@potatodoll]

dude thats so cruel to the ants. your so mean to ants. why are you even here if you want ant wars? sure its intruiging but you shouldn't do it unexpectedly

[@areyouavinalaff]

I think some of the claims made in this program are wrong. why would a buried ant call for help when it can get itself out? the stridulation depicted at 1:02:00 was more to do with shuffling its way up through the loose soil by vibrating the soil with its body. as it shakes itself loose soil collapses around it, ant pushes up as it stridulates. it effectively enables the ant to swim up through the moving soil.

[@majikmessiah]

Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

[@LaurieOMeara]

Amazing video and project - what bothered me this morning was when they moved the colony, they set up a "typical" colony in lab. Very good for study, but after a few weeks, it would have been nice if they presented a problem the ants couldn't be expected to solve - to let them think outside the box completely. I would have liked to see what happened, how the ants evolved with an insurmountable issue.

[@e.jenima7263]

they might be fascinating but they wrecked havoc in my garden for the last couple years.

[@justyourordinarytom6528]

These def didnt

[@miriamsamaniego3335]

Those ant rafts were amazing. I wouldn’t want to come up from a dive into a lake and surface with my head directly under them!!! 😱

[@vickiezaccardo1711]

Maybe not the most politically correct thing to say on an ant doc but I was getting rid of an invasion in a place Id moved into. I' d made bait w boric acid mixed w sugar in water. Tge mix was in a plastic container. I ended- up morbidly fascinated watching their behavior. After enough ants had wound- up in the pool the newbies indeed were making a raft of the dead bodies the tried to get back up the sides of the container.

[@miriamsamaniego3335]

@@vickiezaccardo1711 not sure what that has to do with being politically correct, but blowing up and killing ants is a great pastime. I’ve been bitten many times by fire ants and have blown up quite a few mounds with gasoline and then any remaining ants, I scalded with super hot, boiling water. Little bastards lol

[@vickiezaccardo1711]

@@miriamsamaniego3335 I destroyed the fire ant mounds w boric acid and boiling water.

[@H0kram]

Great documentary. I wish it was in HD so we'd enjoy the life of these fantastic creatures in all its details.

[@alzyerpal-TV]

It was certainly filmed in HD, by my good self no less. Great shoot to work on.

[@animeloveer97]

@@alzyerpal-TV Small world haha

[@brickbattlewarrior]

This is amazing. Sat down and watched the whole thing. I recently got myself one of these colonies, but it only has about 100 workers. i must say, the queens are MASSIVE.

[@CoreyMillionaire2029]

And they're surprisingly long lived too.

[@samrockwallgunship]

What type, atta?

[@pac6010]

Its crazy how intelligent they are.

[@cameronvg2861]

there not it's just chemicals :)

[@dusty21134]

that's actually kind of insulting...

[@cameronvg2861]

***** what i meant by it is one ant is not smart but a collection of them act as a brain with intelligence think of each ant as a neuron one of them wont do anything endless told by another to do something it all starts with the chemicals and ends with them to but its everything that makes the colony a working place like a brain

[@connorpaulsen4414]

its still not intelligent tho. its like a computer. also, fun fact, AI cant form naturally with the way ants are "programmed"

[@thegoodlistenerslistenwell2646]

@@connorpaulsen4414 fun fact, naturally is whatever happens inside the known universe. So everything that actually happens, is in fact, natural.

[@OGdfs420]

This must be what getting abducted by aliens, for a small town farmer, feels like. xD

[@TimeWizard727]

"Adam please can we put the ant chomping on me back now" "No I'm sorry we need 3 more clips of this shot before she can be released"

[@elisewong4976]

This is absolutely spectacular and intriguing to watch!! Thank you for the video. It was amazing to see how the ants tackle complicated problems with the simplest forms of solution.

[@StevenSeagull6969]

Love falling to sleep watching documentaries like this.

[@7alsamla]

I thought I was the only one that does that 😁

[@poopsk8s]

Yes I love dreaming of ants overwhelming me

[@CrabShakMan]

This is what aliens do when they look at us 😂

[@josephthibeault9919]

Living in Arizona, friends asked how I could maintain miles of trails. On my morning walks, I'd take a couple dozen ice cubes ,when I wanted to get rid of grass, I'd put ice cubes on the ground. The ants would drink the water and take away the grass. Water is precious in the desert.

[@larrywest9756]

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[@TheSzierra]

Fun fact, ants strategic plans in battle are very much akin to the Zerg. For example, ant armies use formations which look similar to an army of zerglings and ultralisks, the smaller worker ants (with small, venomous jaws) is the front of the army to take the blunt of the hit, while the larger soldier ants (enormous, powerful jaws that crush their enemies) are in the back, protected untill they reach the actual battle. Some ants can even squirt acid from their abdomen, basically like a roach.

[@wolvesetc]

I can't believe you don't have any likes for this dope comment. Here you go.

[@mugogrog]

And the zoologists looking at the comments collectively go "Zerg who?!" :D Nice analogy good sir.

[@augustrush5533]

No ants were harmed during this production.

[@mercierjanice]

They are highly evolved! I love watching all ants

[@AcceleratedGamingHD]

I suddenly feel like something's crawling in my pants

[@dolphinfreinds1652]

You don't want to know for me

[@nicklausmeiers1949]

Dolphin what is it i wanna know

[@giornosarutobi804]

Me too

[@TRINITYADAMS69]

+AccelCast - Will & Eric its crabs. lol

[@steptoeedwall2349]

That's 'cause you gots ants in ya pants, making ya dance!

[@IbnBahtuta]

So, now I will try and visualise what it is really like for the ants down below, without any light. No, I got lost straight away.

[@Snurm]

I watched this when I was just a child, and it's influenced my desire to be an entomologist ever since

[@peterendres7546]

I thought he said "antomologist" thats hillarious

[@superkompowchicken9344]

41:29 I never thought someone would give an ant a compliment, but hey it's fine with me

[@hihellokitty85]

1:01:40 "Help us fellow workers! The cruel hoomans intentionally buried us alive under the sand for experiement."

[@classicalmusic9658]

It’s amazing. The creator revealed a whole chapter in the Quran and named it “Ants” another one is named “the Bees” to draw our attention to these great creatures

[@bgamlnu5847]

And in one of the other chapters, He stated that they are "communities like ours"

[@Makkie2009]

The fungus is controling it all

[@lyzardskynard7737]

-Me at 4 in the morning- go to bed or watch an hour and a half video about ants? Fuck it

[@pvyj]

Literally me rn

[@daniellewis2542]

Now this is a dream of an ant keeping extreme Hobbies this is simply amazing one of the most spectacular experiments that I could see congratulations on building an amazing Utopia for ants

[@maivpaj5213]

I’m so amazed that millions of ants can work together and humans cannot. It’s says a lot.

[@markfrost2707]

with zero individualism

[@baldbastardo]

No self expression, no autonomy and zero freedom. Yay, communism! People work together just fine and have been doing so since day 1. Gobleki tepe and the pyramids took coordination as did raising crops or bringing dinner home.

[@cheese_stick4342]

I just notice that I watch this video for 1 hour you can get so trap in science but it was really fascinating to learn about leafcutter ants

[@funnygum1]

How the heck did i get from UC Berkeley protest to ants documentary

[@michaelrojas8658]

@wood wink looks like you went from lazy self absorbed losers to the self sacrificing greatest super organisms on earth.

[@milbankfilms2253]

@robert plaza moron*

[@911copcam]

if ants had the same technology as us we would be finished and very quickly

[@geometrologic1797]

YES

[@TheTechBite]

If they were our size, had our intelligence, and advanced technology we would be wiped out. Ants total biomass is already equal to humans worldwide.

[@Holy_hand-grenade]

+neiio I think if they were our size, that would be a sufficient predicate for them to wipe us out... even with our technology', ants have the advantage of the "hive-mind", no issue with self-sacrifice, an ability to rapidly reproduce, they have tough exo-skeletons and they're something like 20X stronger than a human on a size-adjusted basis. They would also be burrowing super deep underground if they were our size, so our conventional weapons would be effectively useless to target the hive queens...

[@loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397]

There is an alien race that are ant-like, have more advanced tech, and are very intelligent. Your nightmare came true.

[@pandaspurp6334]

What's great is we're the superior species so we'll never have to worry about that

[@CursedDeepFake]

this is what earth is. An intricate ant colony and we're being studied by a higher being and have no idea

[@xploration1437]

But you just said it.

[@connorpaulsen4414]

This is the fourth or fifth time I've watched this just this week, I don't know why but I just really like it.

[@connorpaulsen4414]

now a year later, watched it about twenty times

[@pr9272]

Lmao u ant keeper?

[@youtubeepicuser4209]

“Everything you see here is based on real life for the ants” *climbs on ladder*

[@nashvilleslim]

We killed millions of ants to see how they live and in the end we're proud to say we killed billions. We couldn't have done it without the support of people like you.

[@spinorex9353]

monster bug wars was right, THEY DO MAKE THOSE SOUNDS, TAKE THAT HATERS

[@linhcao5372]

spinorex YUS!

[@datheck2222]

Fuck MONSTER BUG WARS

[@gyzardo3648]

Can you link the video?

[@goldy7288]

Yezzir

[@austin3789]

Link please

[@MisterIkeJones]

Just imagine if this is how aliens would see us. I mean, just imagine you were an ant. How would you feel if some giant weird being came and snatched up half of your population and put it in some weird fake dwelling. I mean, i'm not advocating for humane treatment for ants or anything; its just a crazy thought.

[@CodMikeify]

lol thats assuming they even notice us

[@fruitosdor7230]

they notice all of their environment infact we are much bigger than mos of their prey

[@profchaos3539]

like the movie dark city

[@InvertedAim]

DapperDan for all we know this is already happening lol

[@stonecoldsteveaustin9353]

@Katie Giles yes, but assuming this alien species has the ability of interstellar travel and intelligent observation, that would also most likely mean that they have an intelligence and self awareness that completely dwarfs ours. Comparatively the same as humans to ants. Their primary objectives would probably be inconceivable to human intellect altogether, the same as human objectives are inconceivable to ants. They might look at us and say "all this species does is acquire resources through war and diplomacy and try to manage the immediate politics involved." They would have already been exploring planets beyond theirs and recording vast amounts of information for some time before discovering us, so their figurative world would be very much larger than ours. They probably would have eliminated most life expectancy inhibitors for their species by then and possibly even transcended cellular degeneration (death) altogether. So our lives would be considered "short" by their standards, much the same as an ant, to a human. Humans are only significant and exceptionally intelligent within our own frame of reference. Which is what, our planet and a little bit of space kind of? So we're smarter than apes and dolphins for the most part. That's not really saying much in itself. You also have to consider the very real possibility that there are superior beings out there that we can not even begin to understand with what we do know, let alone attempt contact with or compare to our humble selves. Arguing otherwise is nothing short of total arrogance

[@davidclark573]

I wrote a book The Direction of Man and have a short chapter on the ants and bees. I developed a theory I call EXTERNALIZATION where man externalizes the internal processes of his body to the outside word in material constructions that are conducive for man to function better as a large group. I find that ants and bee achieved externalization through natural selection (Provided they were not engineered by a superior species for a specific task.) That out of the way I would like to ask how an ant colony behaves when the food source is depleted and they must seek out new sources. What is the signal for ants to seek out new sources? Is there a specific scout for new sources or is it something all the leaf cutters do when the source is depleted? Initially do the ants who first detect new leaves cut a leaf and return with it or do they just return leaving a strong pheromone with more doing the same until the actual cutters follow the route to work? Darwin says all species have consciousness but different degrees. Since consciousness is awareness there is a degree of consciousness directing the ants. Where does the initial signal to seek out new sources come from?

[@Jaizaret]

Trying to get rid of ants from my yard and now I’m here listening to this at work, such amazing information!!

[@Hiim0094]

I want to be part of something like this. It all looks so fun! I’ve been wanting to start an ant farm for a while, it’s all so interesting!

[@rustyshackleford6927]

At first I interpreted this as you saying you wanted to be an ant in an ant colony… took me a second to realize you meant being an entomologist 😅😅

[@antsriazhang5450]

Same, I thought you wanted to be an ant. I REALLY want an ant farm. But I don't want to be an entomologist, I want to be an actual ant inside a colony!

[@VitchAndVorty]

These scientists are playing Civilization: Ants Queendom.

[@OnTheGSide]

“It went down me front”

[@ShepherdOfFools]

Have you seen AntsCanadas channle? great young lad, loves his ants.

[@98skol]

ShananaBananagin dude's a sellout

[@itstriplem2069]

98skol lies!!!

[@20PINKluvr]

In fact he made a video of visiting this colony

[@donalddeblieux6537]

I'm only 13 and 1/2 minutes in but people who like this type of stuff in general do not quit on it this is so awesome

[@wowthatsawesome2762]

Here we go I had to click on this...goodbye life

[@laureni3443]

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[@brycewetzel196]

@@laureni3443 hello beautiful

[@MyatheplugENT]

I thought the comment said 4 months ago then I realized it 4 years ago ...

[@myasmindandbodymeditation2694]

Absolutely fabulous video!! I hope research like this can give some validity to life other than just human. I watch my driveways ants do their colony thing all of the time. They're so neat to have around!

[@lknanml]

The next sound we recorded was the ants "Didn't you hear me screaming for help damnit. Where were you guys?" call.

[@randomotakunerd]

More accurately described as the ant equivalent of cursing and ranting.

[@noahshomeforstrangeandeduc4431]

AC family?

[@Nutmegowns1]

Can't imagine all the stray ants this experiment produced

[@fruitosdor7230]

Nutmegowns1 I mean those ants that were off foraging have nowhere to live now

[@mindyvaughn8217]

This is an outstanding documentary. Just Brilliant. This man has done has done an incredible investigation into the ant world. Thank you 💖

[@LeahSelman]

& our species has a housing crisis

[@Hatmaster]

We just need to start making homes underground.

[@celestialcircledance]

An ants small size is much more conducive for population expansion . We require a lot more resources and as Sakis pointed out our high standard of living also doesn't help .

[@tustudyis4life51]

Ants work together for the greater good most humans only serve themselves and select few loved ones. Ants industriousness and hivemind should illuminate what is posible if people actually tried to work together to serve the betterment of mankind. In that type of scenario serving others improves the individuals position as well

[@ramongonzalo5076]

monster bug wars was right, THEY DO MAKE THOSE SOUNDS, TAKE THAT HATERS

[@5vs1ngh0]

alright time to put away the bong

[@pvazquez4]

Lol I had to after reading this 🤣🤣. RN4L

[@brittanyrivers3642]

That's how I got here 😂

[@843Berto]

Same

[@dignan193]

Right here

[@GhostScout42]

Hey man, where that bong at...

[@deaustin4018]

"hey Fred?" "yeah, Earl?" "They glued a radio onto my back, Fred." "OK, just go out an cut some leaves. We'll get back to our poker game when they loose interest in us."

[@ThePowerSerg922]

If solenopsis is unsinkable, let's use them for a new titanic!

[@MichaelSHartman]

Like the ants the Titanic had isolated compartments with sealing doors so if one compartment was breached then it would not spread. Each was to remain sealed, but the crew found it inconvenient and left them open.

[@joshuak4646]

I'm not sleeping on a bed of fire ants!

[@Dragonemperess]

The most horrifying reboot in years.

[@Gamebuilder2000]

Michael Hartman I bet that they regret that decision, when the ship started sinking

[@Miss4Sleepy]

Anyone from AntsCanada?

[@noahshomeforstrangeandeduc4431]

Miss Edith me

[@noreannehveil335]

There are several comments on here mentioning AntsCanada. What is that that, exactly ?