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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2015
- A weaver ant fortress comes under attack from a neighbouring colony but is the home guard enough to defend and protect the next generation? Taken from Life Story.
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Nursery Guard: 6 legs...6 legs...8 legs...6 le.... WAIT A MINUTE!
Assasin! Guard, get him!
For some reason that 8 legged guard was picking up babies with its ass snd running away.
In general, mimic spiders like this one position their front legs like antennas for further deception.
Makes me think of the centipede among millipedes bit in family guy
@@justinkeck1132 IMPOSTOR!!! hahahaha
Ants: Total War.
LOL. I just wrote it in the comments before seeing this!
Blood and Gore DLC 5€
SEGA pls ...
i was thinking about The Thing when the "ant" is hidden among the rest or some game like assassins creed or hitman. The Ant: One of us isnt who we seem. Assassins crANT: Fight for freedom. Antman--- wait, copyright... uh.... HitAnt: Eliminate the target.
Ant Fortress 2.
3:37
Other ant: this is madness
Defending ant: THIS IS SPARTA
Mangomart13 stole my comment!
@@JohnWicksPencil14 Make sure you patent it the next time.
Random Dude I will.
awesome
Damit I was going to comment that
Ant looking at jumpingspider: "Meh is also ant hello friend."
Ant looking at other ant of the same spieces: "ENEMY AAAAHHH."
humans?
@Advocatus Diaboli actually you are, not the ants they can easily recognize the scent as different ant colonies have different scents
Those are called pheromones.
Advocatus Diaboli no because ants recognize each other by smell
@@OGTabo0 Touch their nest a second and expect at least one of them biting you.
The footage blows my mind. I can't even take a single photo that looks this good, but they can film an entire ant battle scene, including dramatic cliff murder? Damn!
time is an amazing thing
Some of these shots take months to find
hahaha yeah what a patient it took
It's all about the camera quality you possess.
The ant that fell probably didn't die. Ants are so tiny they have very little mass, so their terminal velocity is extremely low. They can fall from a plane and hit the ground with so little force they won't even be injured.
I had no idea which side was which in this
+Anime Spork racist
Yeah same XD
I was thinking, "could you guys wear bibs or something?"
that's why gang members destinate specific colours.
+Robert Gabryszak ROMAN ANTS WITH SHIELDS AND ARMOUR
WOW YOU RACIST!
Guard Ant : Oh hey Jim, haven't seen you for a while.
Spider : Uhh yeah, I was busy making a website.
bruh website corny joke but ok
The "website" was a nice punchline. I gave you a thumbs up for that one
BADUM-TSS
Could’ve been used for an opening to a sponsor
website xD
Imagine some higher being makes documentaries on our conflicts like this
They somehow get really good film on us killing each other.
"The Jihadi, separated from his Mujahideen brethren, is cornered. He ran across the narrow alley, breathless, hoping find cover. Off his guard, he was ambushed by three marines, arms length away. Looking directly at the barrel of an M4 rifle, all seemed to be lost. But, he had a surprise up his sleeves. A dead man's switch."
It's possible
Hol up
The low class human worker pospones important work to watch yet another video about ants
Meanwhile, the spider's probably sitting on another tree, whilst eating a bucket of ant grubs.
All the while he is calling on bets on who wil win with his fellow males and discussing about how hypocritical the females are "she wants me but then she eats me!"
While some of them on the ground are amazed on lunch raining on top of them
This has a disturbing lack of Muffets and dancing spiders.
Needle
Don't bring that into this beautiful video
Alright fair enough.
3:34
"Brother, help me!"
"Long live the king!"
Long live the Queen !!
@@dominiclussier8810 He referring The Lion King
Looking for this comment... knew there had to be a Lion King reference.
@@noahhorner231 By the way, It must be
"Brother, help me"
"Long live the colony
@@ducminhtran4136 Nope...
"Sister... help me!"
"Long live the queen."
All warrior and worker ants are female. The males, called drones, stay in the nest until mating season, at which point they fly from the nest in search of a new queen ant. Drones then die. The mandibles, mouthparts of ants, are so small on males that they cannot even feed themselves, and thus die of thirst after mating.
"You can't just infiltrate an ant colony with an obvious disguise!'
Jumping Spider: Observe
"Humans could learn to live in peace like other creatures on the planet." Oh wait...
A7xFo now now.... saying stuff like that might upset the sjw snowflakes so be carefull
@@jacobsaccount9353 hahahah
Jacob Mason yeah sadly people are too sensitive nowadays 😂
Exactly!
@@UltimateDespair98 It's ridiculous. It's like what source did you learn about nature from Disney animated movies?
Spider: "Yup, totally an ant here. I definitely don't have 8 legs, only got 6 here... look at my marvelous eyes of mine..."
_>
More like oOOo
I I
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+Jose Suarez It's actually
oOOo
oOOo
amazing thing is it put it front leg up to resemble ant thing
Animals have no education yet smart
3:17 NOPE NOPE NOPE!!
F*ck getting jumped that boy was smart to run lol
Im laughing so hard right now.. Hahaha
Spider walks in to ant nursery: um I'm here from the department a just a floor above
Nursery ants: oh you must be the new intern, make yourself at home
Me: Enjoying a nice coffee in the morning.
Meanwhile the equivalence of a nuclear war is happening in a random rainforest.
ruclips.net/video/BtylwUTc1KA/видео.html
Probably in the forest closest to you too
So caterpillars are ant cows.
ANT COWS I'M DYING
You just blow my mind lol
Havent you watch the ants life?
@@indiongmalaya6737 I think it's A Bug's Life
😂
Left ant at 3:30:this is madness
Right ant: madness?
Right ant: this is a TREE BRANCH
Right ant kicks left ant
amazing comment ahahahahahha
Lainky Pheng iiii
Lainky Pheng i was going to put that 😂
Lainky Pheng haha first thing I thought when I saw that too! SPARTA ANT!! Haha on a kill streak too judging by the pile at the bottom! 👍
this is SPARTA!! hahahah
The ant history is like a perpetual war with itself.
Like the humans 😅
And republicans
@@malcolmholmes2596 and Democrats who wanted slavery but we Republicans fought against it
@@starboysuniverse9956 and who're still the party of racism.
@@reeceshugrue6167 democrats
Cane here from Kurzgesagt. Weaver ants are cool.
same here.
Same! Had no idea there’s a perpetual world war raging in the trees
Same, I was wondering how accurate the animations were and they are spot on
Yes, C A N E
We called them "antik" here in the Philippines.
This video made me want to play a strategy game.
Total wars my friend.
Play chess :D
Play Pikmin!
yeah
Same here made me think of sim ant .
I was very disappointed that they didn't edit in a wilhelm scream
Zachary Krawczyk 😚
THATS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT
I'm disappointed that they didn't add a Goofy scream when the ant fell.
I'm very relieved that I didn't hear a Wilhelm scream.
So tired of hearing it where it shouldn't be.
“I think we all were”
That final ant murder scene was like when leonidas kicked the Persian off the cliff. This. Is. SPARTAAAA
It's a good movie but god is it historicly inaccurate af 😂
CitizenSlyder yes(: & at thi edge of the twig, that final ant threw his hands up in the air in victory afterwards served us drama. 😌
Jumping spider: "Oh hey guys, I'm just doin some ant stuff."
Only orchestration and a British accented Attenborough can make a backyard infestation look like LotR.
That spider is basically Sam sneaking into the Black Gate to 'steal' a coccooned Frodo.
Forth, Eorlingas!
1:07
*"yes hello I am ant"*
best comment sksksks
And I am iron man
3:30 : its over Anakin i have the high ground
0:27 the ant's like hey get back here😆😆😆
One may notice that defenders are generally positioned on the right of each shot, while attackers are shown on the left. Genius Camerawork at play. Also, I can't help but be fascinated by the way the defenders shooting acid place themselves in groups in elevated positions, like artillery batteries. Either that's some random event, or there's relatively sophisticated battle coordination going on here. I rather fancy the latter.
Robert Staples there's competition in the ladder for this rts game lmao
@TheWhiteFang284 what a smart guy you are. If it's too good to be evolution then it must be intelligent design.
This wasn’t shot in nature but a room with fake plants. They write the story based on random events. These new films are more like a movie than a documentary.
Ants are actually very intelligent. The cracked this kind of coordination and management thousands of years before we did.
@@rustybulletstmm Ants are not intelligent lol. I wonder if they even have brains at all. Ants operate by some genetical script that can identify different feromones and physical events such as pressure, heat and gravity. They are not smart at all lol
3:31 "This is blasphemy. This is MADNESS!!"
"Madness? THIS IS SPARTA!!"
SpartAnt*
The fact that ants actually have ranged defenses makes this all the more wild.
they're gonna make rifles next
War is the greatest driver of adaptation and evolution.
3:34
"Luke, I'm your father"
"Noooo, that's not true."
XD this needs more likes
That's impossible!
@@mawage666 And Princess Leia is your sister
69 like
we need a good ant empire simulater, like a total war
Daniel Woods Civ 7 leaked gameplay
xD lol
Daniel Woods well there is HomeWars....toy soldiers vs insects
Daniel Woods Empires of the undergrowth boiiiii
Sim Ant was a thing back in 91, not bad either
I once witnessed an ant colony raid an earwig colony. It was amazing. The earwigs could cut the ants in half with their pincers, but they were greatly outnumbered. There were around three ants attacking each earwig. While all the earwigs were distracted more ants went into their home, and took all their babies as food, carrying them away into their own colony. After lots of earwigs died, the line broke and the surviving earwigs fled the area, abandoning their home and colony.
must've been entertaining to watch, haha!
I was mowing my lawn once while an ant colony was on the move across the street. I knocked over a wooden post with the lawnmower and it had been hollowed out and was filled with termites. I looked at the termites, then looked at the ants, then grabbed the post and started shaking the termites out into the ants. Long story short, the ants won.
promontorium lucky
Sound more like termites
@@moosemaimer you're evil.... do it again.
Guard ant sees a giant eight legged spider disguised as an ant approaching:
"OH MY DEAR FELLOW, what on colony happened to you?"
Spider (shuddering ): Cher- Cher- Chernobyl.
(2019 joke)
Who else is here after watching like 3 straight ant videos 😂
Me
Same here 😂😂
Me. I like ants
Me
2
whoa,that jumping Spider had balls of Diamonds to just walk into an ant colony
In nature you have to have BIG steel balls to survive
I mean, most predators that go to fight in a Ant Colony aren't aware that ants would wipe the floor with them. Now that spider seemed like it did understand that and if it was spotted, would run.
a spiders life revolves around tricking lesser insects into becoming an easy meal, its their life. i guess brain size doesn't matter when it comes to these instincts and other functions you see from insects in these videos
@aboctok I'm kinda late, but that ant is a pupa short time before hatching
i think with the fact that it's super fast and can jump it could probably get away if it makes the decision quickly
For the Swarm!
[Meanwhile on the ground with other predators]
It's raining lunch~! Hallelujah! It's raining lunch! Amen!
"Mom, can I have lion king?"
"No, we have lion king at home"
Lion king at home: 3:35
nice
Hahahahaha
I love that lion king becuase I love ants
They killed, my nigga, mufasa
*ant
Who else is here after Kurzgesagt's weaver ants video?
lmao me
What would we do without David attenborough
the world would end without him
+darkless60 think there's a replacement /watch?v=KG2Nl2D-i8c
Morgan Freeman.
I dunno, clone him?
Karl Pilkington , do we need 'em?
Ants: HOSTILES! PREPARE THE DEFENCES!
Hostile ants: ATTACK, LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND!
Spider: "got me a bucket o' grubs AND a fighting show today? Thank you mother!"
Like Arya Stark
XD
Bucket o' Grubs😂
HOLD MY CATERPILLAR
that made me chuckle
I love how the ant at the end of the branch at the end is like “And stay out!”
2:14 "INTRUDER ALERT: RED SPY IS IN THE BASE!"
A red spy is in the base?!
I once had an ant hill, and my mom had it sprayed..
And then sadly, I watched one surviving ant carry out all of the dead ants.
That ant walked slowly, so upset.
war. war never changes
well said!
4:14: "THIS IS SPARTA! MOMENT"
Me watching the ants: "Haha it's like they're having a little fight 😀"
Ants: *"BATTLE STATIONS EVERYONE! LET'S MOVE, MOVE, MOVE!!"*
*CLASHING SWORDS, DYING SCREAMS, A SEA OF BODIES AND BLOOD*
It's a good thing they have a queen, wouldn't want any antarchy
l
l
Good joke.... wouldnt say it any better
in reality ants are one of the best example how ideal anarchy should work. its more like big family than kingdom
kill me
3:34
MUFASA NOOOOOOOO
"Long live the king"
"King of the North"
+Melissa LOL
Mufasa yes
Long live a random soldier
I absolutely love this shot at 2:27 It clearly whose side is who and the apposing sides threatening each other.
Spider: yea uhhh don’t mind me, you already know, queen’s orders
Ant: ... sounds legit to me
Ant: THIS IS SPARTAAA! (kicks enemy ant off the tree)
lol
we need an ant RTS
+SonicSanctuary comming soon ant simulator from eteeski team
+SonicSanctuary you mean SimAnt? That came out 25 years ago.
runescapecars4321
one that dosnt suck thou
try empires of the undergrowth it's cool,it's by slug disco
OMG Empires of th Undergrowth. Looks really promising tbh :)
The jumping spider was like: just going to get a quick snack!
We appreciate your dedication and devotion to documenting such moments for us.
And they say war isn't natural
+Mr Ford Shelby That is a great quote
+Andrew Earthrise (Humanus) And Mankind has a need for violence. It's in our nature.
+Andrew Earthrise (Humanus) Civilization is inherently unsustainable and will always collapse
+Andrew Earthrise (Humanus) There are plenty of resources to go around - that's no excuse. Most wars aren't about a need for more resources, they're about a desire to control the resources so you can control the people.
+Andrew Earthrise (Humanus) How does that remotely contradict anything I said? Iraq did not invade Kuwait because it NEEDED resources, they did it because they wanted control over Kuwait. While as a consequence that may give them more resources, it wasn't the aim.
Imagine what that's like with the ants and caterpillar getting along,
"Hey! I'll protect you if you give me Food!"
"...Ok then!:
Caterpillar: "Hey guys I'm a butterfly now!"
Ants: "LETS KILL HIM AND EAT HIM!," "RIP HIS WINGS OFF SO HE CAN'T FLY AWAY!"
Cryptic Savage You're right XD
Theyre prolly taking the caterpillar hostage
D
Spider walks into nursery: “Hi I’m here for Jimmy”
Nursery ant: “Oh he’s right over there”
Spider picks up kid: “Bye have a nice day”
Nursery ant: “Hold up, we don’t have a Jimmy here...”
3:34 “it’s over Anakin I have the high ground”
This one is better , atleast you're not that guy who uses metal sounds while ants are biting something
Real Trump of course, it’s David Attenborough + BBC
return of the robo ants xD
I think he/she/it is referring to monster bug wars
Cheesoos Kryst They still do that.
Frappe .-. I like the robo-ants
Agent 47: I've retired, it's up to you now, Agent 8 Legs.
Agent 8 Legs: What's the mission?
Agent 47: Infiltrate that ant colony and get as many grubs as you can. And don't forget to use the element of disguise. It's the most effective.
Agent 8 Legs: Roger.
Agent 8 Legs: What happened to stealth?
Agent 48: Agent 47 noticed we won't survive like this forever so he ordered a banzai charge...so...wanna switch sides?
Agent 8 Legs:...
Definetely Not Nelson Pham lol
Who's Roger?
@@guttularaja Its a quick way of saying "roger that."
Never saw an ant fist fight before this video. 😂
1:01
Me : dodge the spider and look behind me
More impressive is how in the world do these people manage to films these tiny insects. And they capture them from all kinda of angles too. More impressive they don't lose sight. All being done without disrupting the tiny insects. outstanding!
3:37 this is LARVA!!!!!!!!
"Raiders are quickly spotted"
Wait a minute... the spider gets away by looking like an ant...
Kurzgesagt has me wanting to see this action irl
3:34 we are spartaaaa!!!!!
When I saw that part, I looked down in the comments because I knew there will be a "We are spartaaaa!!!!!" comment. :)
it's...... "THIS... IS.... SPARTA!!!!!!"
we are spartant!!!!
2:28-2:32 admit it, you were wishing those ants had bows and arrows!
“The guard releases a pheromone...” Translated: “The guard farts out a warning...”
Hahaha maybe
UNSEE please
3:34 is the same I feel from 300 movie
“This is Sparta” and then the Epic Kick.
This would make a great game. Ant Colony; Total War or something like that! Or maybe something like a 1st person game; Ants; Insectoid Warfare!
There is a game called Empires of the underground. But maybe it is not the way you envisioned it.
i will make that game i am a game developer on scratch
My question is how none of the ants notice the disguised spider has eight legs and appears, to them, to be walking backwards. "What's wrong with you man?" "I just saw Steve do something weird." "Ah."
+flair541 The video did not mention that the spider mimics the smell of a friendly ant, and ants are almost entirely olfactory creatures.
Manchease Skrelpher I always for get their smell thing
Maybe bc ants
Poor eyesight. Relies of smell but the disguise ignores the smell perhaps?
***** ah.
3:34 is literally "The Lion King" of Ants.
1:12 when a weird guy offers to babysit your kid but he never gives him back
Saving Private Ryan wasn't this intense.
HEY BOYS THERES A SPY
Spy check
3:33 this is Spartar from 300
Remembering A Bug’s Life. One of the best movies I’ve watched during my childhood!
I kicked a dying tree a few months ago and it made a ton of carpenter ants swarm out of it looking fro the source of the attack probably. It was nuts seeing them all swarm down the tree to defend it.
3:33 and 300 epic moment: "This is Spanta"". What's a coincidence!!
It is feel like a greece war.
Excellent work from the BBC.
Keep up the good work.
"War, war never changes."
How is it possible that the weaver ants cannot tell the jumping spider from their own colony, but can easily tell the difference between their own colony and a neighbouring colony of the same species? Is the jumping spider more efficient at mimicking the pheromones of the particular colony?
+JstAnothrVirtuoso Just shows to go you the power of racism.
+JstAnothrVirtuoso It seems that the ants need to identify the other ants with their antennas. I think that since the spider didn't get close to any of the worker ants, they didn't even notice it.
The army is much more advanced and aware than the nursery guards.
+JstAnothrVirtuoso Yes, that particular spider emits a pheromone so close to that of the ant colony that they don't even notice.
+JstAnothrVirtuoso i just don't think they cared enough about one larva
Guard: (spots rival ants that look exactly the same) "INTRUDERS! INTRUDERS! PREPARE FOR BATTLE!"
Guard: (spots spider that only vaguely looks like an ant) "Oh, I didn't remember any members of the colony having so many eyes and an extra pair of legs"
The spider rubs itself on dead ants of the colony... I’m not kidding
They didn't want to look racist against the spider
@@noahhorner231 ,makes sense
Raiders: “Hand over your larvae!”
Defenders: “Come and get em’!”
3:36 *Long live the KING*
3:35 "THIS, IS, SPARTA!"
That was awesome! I liked how the guard ant pushed the invader ant over!! The music also got me hyped.
I'm 99% sure most of them died by fall damage.
Falling actually wouldn't hurt an ant.
@@xyzzyxyzzy2 but it would hurt a wasp depending on where
Yeah i also wondered why the ant which where dropped from the nest at the end died b c of the fll because usually ants don't die because of falling you. could throw an ant down the empire state building and it wouldn't min the ant
You can't kill an ant with fall damage!
FIX FALL DAMAGE VALVE!
Idk why but this seemed very exciting for me to see. What an amazing display of what goes on in nature
Is there friendly fire on ? and how do they know what team they are on
3:37 long live the king
That was the cutest war i’ve ever seen
Good filming and editing and battle music. I like how the ant squirt his ultimate weapon from his booty ..wow that's cool.
Imagine sitting down and watching this in real life
😂😂
my gosh, its like D-day all over again! dont watch this if you have ptst
or the call of duty missions
+coldfire0007 ptsd
I don't think an old man will go and watch something about ants or an adult only SCIENCE
PTSD*
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Not Post Traumatic Stress Trauma.
Or Vietnam war flashback
We need an ant colony themed RTS game, from this video alone you have some of the basics for one:
- caterpillars = resource farms
- grub nursery = barracks for spawning units
- regular ants = close combat units
- acid squirting ants = ranged units
And there are plenty of other things not covered in this video that could be worked in
Jack Ward there is it's called Antwar.io
The french video game "Empire Of The Ants".
empires of the undergrowth
Also Ants: Underground Kingdom
You basically just described Empires of the Undergrowth. It’s like $20 on Steam.
Everything you mentioned exists in EotU, from resource farms (aphids), to barracks (nursery tiles), and 6 playable species of ants each with their own unique traits and abilities. One of the species, Formica rufa, has two types of soldiers, a melee soldier and a ranged soldier that sprays acid. And the game is still in development so more content is being released.
3:34 This is madness!
Madness?! This is Sparta!