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"They're found on every continent except *Ant*arctica." _ironic_
Imagine being a baby and your aunt decides to use you for arts and crafts.
Aren't they awesome?! True rulers of the Earth! Ant love forever! ❤🐜🐜🐜 PS - Hate to be that guy but the creatures at 0:38 are actually termites. Not your fault; whoever catalogued that footage thought they were ants. I've seen the exact stock footage used in tv shows and videos about ants.
"Maybe you Immediately thought of the blue whale." Nah mate, thought of ants. It's the title of the video
"Using their babies like a hot glue gun" is not a sentence I would ever imagine of hearing
Using their babies as a hot glue gun 😂
Ants are truly insane! Did you know that wood ants even sacrifice their own lives to save their colony? The territorial battles that break out between neighboring anthills each spring are warfare of the highest order, involving thousands of casualties and chemical weapons. Our film team was thrilled when they watched two colonies how they conduct scouting expeditions and subdue their enemies.
the dying of a colony after a queen dies depends on the ant species. Yellow crazy ants for one are known to merge nests with other Yellow crazy ants and housing multiple queens.
Wow ants have more plans and ideas for their lives than i do lol
first thing that came to mind when talking about the most dominant creature was funghi and lichen... we need to know more about funghi and lichen *_*
Dude where did this amazing channel come from Absolutely flawless sound design, script and editing
Wow, you unblocked a memory! When i was like 6-7 years old and i was playing somewhere outside i saw one group of ants that were standing still, without moving, and even if i threatened or touched them they would still not move. I didn't think much of it since i was just a little child, but the memory of this odd event sticked to my mind apparently. Today i've watched this documentary, and as soon as i saw those dying ants all still at 12:06 this childhood memory immediately popped up! Now, after about 30 years, i understand what happened. Those guys had lost their queen and they were letting themselves go. Thank you!!
Was that your hand at 0:46 Steph? Definitely seems like something you would do......
An ant's loyalty is the ultimate Chinese's government dream
Here's the link to the podcast! /modulus/working-under-pressure
Fun fact, this video is about the most common type of ants, there is ants were there is no queens... And worker fight whith eachother to become the next queen
It's very impressive how much stock footage they were able to find on ants.
I like ants because whenever they come inside my house in a line I know it's going to be rainy season
that method for using larvae as biological hot glue gun is some next level child labor stuff lol
Imagine a leafy ball full with millions of ants dropping from the tree top instead of an apple while a young scientist is reading a book and thinking about the world...