If you loved this Rom"ant"ic video be sure to check out all the other fun ant-related resources (including more videos and a cartoon!) under the "Show more" section above.
***** Farmer ants! My yard is full of these. Leaf-cutter ants strip all the leaves off the plants in my yard (aaaaaugh!). I understand they don't eat the leaves; they use them to farm a special kind of fungus, which they eat. Please come study my ants, Corrie, and take all of them (ALL of them!) back to Chicago for further study.
OH MY GODS! How many more stunning YT channels I still don't know!!***** You are freaking amazing! :) Finding new channels at this rate, will inevitably end in me not sleeping at all. ;) But yours at least are kurz, so I won't sue you for my insomnia. LoL Cheers!
Monique Pihl Hi to you again. We had a conversation with a bunch of racist dick heads on Vice's report of Compton one time. I see you around here and there on quite a few of the channels I like.
For me, one of the best ever episodes, which is high praise indeed. Dr. Corrie Moreau was fantastically engaging and fascinating. The subject could easily sustain further episodes (hint, hint!).
I have a feeling that ants on their own are so complex that you could do a whole RUclips channel just to deal with them! - or if, somehow, ants are not enough, then at least a channel on all the social hymenoptera, e.g. ants, bees and wasps. Though termites, equally social but not as closely related, would be amazingly interesting too.
so i started watching all the episodes yesterday and im aall the way here i feel so accomplished but at the same time i feel like im procrastinating somehow.... yay!
good for you - i didn't realize there so many different species of ants. where i lived in the country (early 1950's) there was a huge ant colony which no one bothered at all. it was about 3 feet high and probably four feet diameter. i know i was little, but that was one big ant hill :}
This is why the movies Ants and A Bugs Life annoyed me so much, the automatic assumption that only men could be soldiers/warriors/useful/lead characters -even in insects... Sigh. Great vid, great information, great presenter!
Since these male ants are haploid, one might argue that they are more like sperms than complete beings. I've always been puzzled by the life of sperms. They are not born from the passionate union of male and female, but rather are fathered only by a testicle. Then they lounge around in the lobby, waiting for an ejaculation. Eventually, if all goes well, they find themselves frantically swimming upstream toward a fallopian tube. But their taste of freedom is short and fateful. Like the vast majority of their millions of brothers, they routinely die (of sorrow, perhaps) after a fruitless quest for The Great Egg. To me it seems the poor spermies are only half alive.
Ants always remind me of my Grandmother. While on a snake hunting trip with her 5th grade students and me taught us about any colonies. Thanks for the wonderful happy memories (and new information) from showing us ants!
I love the passion both of these people have. Listening to Corrie talk is incredibly inspiring and I want to thank Emily and Corrie (and everyone else involved) for the opportunity I get when you guys post an episode.
Emily, I just found an old book from 1840 called "The Canadian Naturalist"! I'm so excited to read about early natural observations near where Montreal is today, back when it was forested. It's mostly farms now.
Another great video from The Brain Scoop. Ants have always fascinated me. Is it true ants are the greatest amount of biomass on earth? Knowing the devastation army ants can cause when they are on the move I've thought it was a nifty unexplored horror movie subject; "Human pollution caused ant mutations march around the earth eating and ruining everything in their path." I know there has been at least one movie about nuclear mutated ants sometime during the '50s, but nuclear mutation is passe.
I'm not completely sure what it says about me that I usually know nothing about movies people reference, and yet I know that the 50's movie about mutated ants is Them. I guess my horror geek boyfriend has corrupted me.
lmpeters "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson Found it and am reading it now. Thank you for the tip. The ~50 page story "about a man's fight against a vast army of ants threatening to destroy the man's jungle plantation" can be found on the internet.
The combined biomass of plant and bacteria is probably more than ten times that of all animals put together, so I don't think ants have the largest biomass on earth.
Corrie is amazingly cool and speaks with such enthusiasm about her work! The field museum's greatest collection really seems to be its collection of awesome people.
Such a great video It's half knowing the answer and helping the viewer by asking questions just to ask, but then something she didn't know comes up and it's just the greatest reaction. So good at doing this.
I think that was actually on of the most mind blowing episodes ever. I CANT EVEN PROCESS ALL OF THAT NEW INFORMATION. And I feel I have been mislead about ants!! Great episode!
I notice that the Cephalotes with the door head has pores or pits on the top. Are those receptors for chemical signals, so he knows who to open the door to?
Hello Emily, greetings!! I have a doubt to be clarified, You said that the fertilised eggs become the female ants (the workers) and the unfertilized ones become the mailes (the drones) so my clarification is required in the following!--->, how is a queen ant get birth ? in the unfertilized egg or in the fertilized egg where some sort of more genetic code is dominant to become a queen ant in the colony?! Pls shine light on this so I cud understand better ;) :) Thanks in Advance!!!
What can I say about this episode, it was brilliant like all Brain Scoop is brilliant :D I like the alternation between looking a broad categories at the museum to focusing on specific topic like this episode. It keeps everything mixed and fun
Loved it, loved how the scientist lady had a humor about it. sometimes scientist types are very matter of fact she's laughing talking about ants shitting in each others mouths
This was so fascinating, I had no idea that they lived in all female colonies and could get so evovled they can't feed themselves. Nature sure is wonderfully strage through our eyes and perception some times. Is the all female colony thing something that is a trait for all kinds of ants? If so, that just seems so out there to me. Wauw!
now i understand why Michael had to edit this all day, think of all the inappropriate wording they had to change XD this is fascinating, thanks Emily and Dr. Corrie!
This was great! I'm a beekeeper and knew that there were a lot of similarities in ant and honeybee colonies. I wanted to look into it when I had time but I appreciate you doing the work for me, Emily!!! Honeybees, of course, don't have the same size modification that the ants do, but they do feed each other as part of the nectar processing system. However, it's all tongue-to-tongue (actually, proboscis-to-proboscis) and not oral to anal. Thank goodness! Honeybees will actually hold their poop during the winter cold so that they keep the inside of the hive clean. And then the first warm day, they will all go on a "cleansing flight." They're doing that at my house right now. You can hear the sighs of relief from our back door.
I wonder how the individual ants get so specialised, especially seeing as they're apparently genetically very close. Is it just small genetic differences which happen at random; or is it perhaps something post-natal like hormones which determine their specialisation?
Jelle van Merrienboer thebrainscoop32 minutes ago "From what Corrie told me during our interview, this is determined primarily by diet. Larvae are fed more or less depending on the requirements of the overall colony. For example, if there are a lot of worker ants, they'll feed the new batch of larvae more in order to get the big solider ants, and vice versa. So, it's pretty interesting that the ants as a collective whole are able to determine and enforce the colony dynamic from generation to generation. "
Loved being involved with this Brain Scoop video! Happy Valentine's Day from me and all the romantic ants!
Thanks so much, Corrie! I had a great time, too. Next time let's tell them all about ant farmers, mold crops, and milking aphid cows.
If you loved this Rom"ant"ic video be sure to check out all the other fun ant-related resources (including more videos and a cartoon!) under the "Show more" section above.
***** Farmer ants! My yard is full of these. Leaf-cutter ants strip all the leaves off the plants in my yard (aaaaaugh!). I understand they don't eat the leaves; they use them to farm a special kind of fungus, which they eat.
Please come study my ants, Corrie, and take all of them (ALL of them!) back to Chicago for further study.
This was awesome! Loved it! :)
Your job is super awesome and I'm really envious. I hope you're on here again! More insects!
This was awesome - ants are soo cool :)
Moar ants!
I love you Kurzgesagt. And I'm only 70% sure I know how to pronounce that.
*****
Thanks, we love you too! We will upload a pronounciation video one day ;)
***** One day I will tell my grandchildren of the day Kurzgesagt told me they love me.
*****
Please tell your grandchildren we love them too. Little Timmy, Robert, Betty, Sue and even the little brat Kevin.
OH MY GODS! How many more stunning YT channels I still don't know!!***** You are freaking amazing! :) Finding new channels at this rate, will inevitably end in me not sleeping at all. ;) But yours at least are kurz, so I won't sue you for my insomnia. LoL Cheers!
This episode should have been called Romants! ;-D
Dr. Corrie Moreau, you are fantastic! You make ants so endearing and fascinating. Please let her come on the show more often Emily =D
These shows make me want to become a scientist. Fuck, science is so cool
Monique Pihl Hi to you again. We had a conversation with a bunch of racist dick heads on Vice's report of Compton one time. I see you around here and there on quite a few of the channels I like.
I love how everybody is really enthusiastic about what they know, like embracing the nerdness.
For me, one of the best ever episodes, which is high praise indeed.
Dr. Corrie Moreau was fantastically engaging and fascinating.
The subject could easily sustain further episodes (hint, hint!).
More from Dr. Moreau, please! She seems very enthusiastic and explains things very well plus... insects are fantastic!
I love it when people find the humor in science, it makes it so much easier to learn and it's way more fun.
You DEFINITELY need to have Corrie Moreau on again!!!
Really lovely video - hymenoptera are awesome :)
This was a great episode. So informative and I love Emily's genuine reactions to hearing the information. Also, the bug earrings are a nice touch.
I have a feeling that ants on their own are so complex that you could do a whole RUclips channel just to deal with them! - or if, somehow, ants are not enough, then at least a channel on all the social hymenoptera, e.g. ants, bees and wasps. Though termites, equally social but not as closely related, would be amazingly interesting too.
If you really wanted, you could make a channel out of anything, even paint drying. Just make sure to have a great narrating voice.
JellybellyWaffles well a channel about ants and related insects would be much easier to make interesting than watching paint dry.
So ants don't care about romance but instead abot their sisters?
...Ants have totally watched Frozen.
New Valentine's day card idea!
Picture of an ant with the text: "I love you so much, I'd poop in your mouth."
I'd buy it.
That is so cool, also good to know a large colony of ladies is as badass as I thought in my head
so i started watching all the episodes yesterday and im aall the way here i feel so accomplished but at the same time i feel like im procrastinating somehow.... yay!
Boom-cha-ka-wa-wa ant sex.
Dayum, those ants are into some kinky lesbian stuff.
I think this is one of my favorite brain scoop videos so far
How Rom-ant-ic. Happy valentines day everyone!!
How rom-ANT-ic! HAHAHAHAHAHA
No? Anyone? Well now I'm embarrassed.
*Slaps Knee*
yeeeeaaaaah... no... rimjobs arent romantic at all.
Rafael Dos Santos Yes, they are.
This lady’s awesome - I love how enthusiastic she is about her subject! She appears almost gleeful - I love it. More with her please!
That woman made me excited about ants. Cool stuff!
Omg video paused for bufferingnat 6:46, priceless face xD
just perfect LOL
So now I know what to call all my mom's sisters.
Ants. *bdump tss*
I aspire to be Corrie. Seriously, ants are amazing, and I have the fortune that many of the workgroups at my universtity study leaf-cutting ants.
good for you - i didn't realize there so many different species of ants. where i lived in the country (early 1950's) there was a huge ant colony which no one bothered at all. it was about 3 feet high and probably four feet diameter. i know i was little, but that was one big ant hill :}
Great, informative and fun video ! Thank you, Corrie and Emily !!
Are all fields museum curator required to be great in front of camera? Corrie Morreau (that's her name right?) is just so interesting and engaging.
Would definitely love to hear some more ant trivia, They're really incredible and yet seem so simple from a layman's point of view.
"there's nothing more romantic than ant sex" I want that on a shirt
Just add an asterisk at the end and then this text on the back:
" *licking your sister's butt"
I just learned so much in those 7 minutes. Holy crap, it's all amazing!
This was an awesome episode! Please do more with Corrie on other insects!
What about the ants that suicide bomb other colonies!? They literally explode and release an acidic good over their enemies... so cool!
This was an amazing episode among many amazing episodes. I want more!
Oh NO! How did I miss World Pangolin Day!
Adorable pangolin has an awesome time in the mud
World Pangolin Day 2014
This is why the movies Ants and A Bugs Life annoyed me so much, the automatic assumption that only men could be soldiers/warriors/useful/lead characters -even in insects... Sigh. Great vid, great information, great presenter!
Corrie is lovely~ Guest star again soon! Loved the close up views!
Since these male ants are haploid, one might argue that they are more like sperms than complete beings.
I've always been puzzled by the life of sperms. They are not born from the passionate union of male and female, but rather are fathered only by a testicle. Then they lounge around in the lobby, waiting for an ejaculation. Eventually, if all goes well, they find themselves frantically swimming upstream toward a fallopian tube.
But their taste of freedom is short and fateful. Like the vast majority of their millions of brothers, they routinely die (of sorrow, perhaps) after a fruitless quest for The Great Egg.
To me it seems the poor spermies are only half alive.
I never thought I could be so amazed to learn about ants!
Ants always remind me of my Grandmother. While on a snake hunting trip with her 5th grade students and me taught us about any colonies. Thanks for the wonderful happy memories (and new information) from showing us ants!
I love the passion both of these people have. Listening to Corrie talk is incredibly inspiring and I want to thank Emily and Corrie (and everyone else involved) for the opportunity I get when you guys post an episode.
romantic overload!
Great episode! I'd love to hear more from Dr. Moreau in the future! :)
This is insanity. My brain in on the floor. And I love it
Emily, I just found an old book from 1840 called "The Canadian Naturalist"! I'm so excited to read about early natural observations near where Montreal is today, back when it was forested. It's mostly farms now.
Colony creatures are awesome! Would you do a bee episode too?
And now for an accurate remake of the animated movie 'Antz'.
ROM-ANTS!!
GET IT!!?? BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!~!~!
Another great video from The Brain Scoop. Ants have always fascinated me. Is it true ants are the greatest amount of biomass on earth?
Knowing the devastation army ants can cause when they are on the move I've thought it was a nifty unexplored horror movie subject; "Human pollution caused ant mutations march around the earth eating and ruining everything in their path." I know there has been at least one movie about nuclear mutated ants sometime during the '50s, but nuclear mutation is passe.
Stories about killer army ants go at least as far back as "Leiningen Versus The Ants", which was first published in 1937.
I'm not completely sure what it says about me that I usually know nothing about movies people reference, and yet I know that the 50's movie about mutated ants is Them. I guess my horror geek boyfriend has corrupted me.
lmpeters
"Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson
Found it and am reading it now. Thank you for the tip.
The ~50 page story "about a man's fight against a vast army of ants threatening to destroy the man's jungle plantation" can be found on the internet.
The combined biomass of plant and bacteria is probably more than ten times that of all animals put together, so I don't think ants have the largest biomass on earth.
isakoqv
Thanks Isakoqv.
Corrie is amazingly cool and speaks with such enthusiasm about her work! The field museum's greatest collection really seems to be its collection of awesome people.
Hahaha I like Corrie!
I didn't even knew I loved ants before today thanks Emilie and Corrie !! This channel is the best.
wonderful episode, thank you!
6:27 yeah... I know Emily... that's so... disgustingly AMAZING
Such a great video It's half knowing the answer and helping the viewer by asking questions just to ask, but then something she didn't know comes up and it's just the greatest reaction. So good at doing this.
I think that was actually on of the most mind blowing episodes ever. I CANT EVEN PROCESS ALL
OF THAT NEW INFORMATION. And I feel I have been mislead about ants!! Great episode!
So, being a social insect doesn't sound like fun.
So romantic! I'm practically swooning. Hahaha. This episode made me laugh far harder than I should have.
I think the end there was one of the few times Emily's ever had the "That's so GROSS" expression XD
She was an ant in her previous life, that's how she knows all this. :D
So many good words to remember.
That was a very 'We're done here' moment at the end there XD
I love ants! Thank you so much!
I notice that the Cephalotes with the door head has pores or pits on the top. Are those receptors for chemical signals, so he knows who to open the door to?
probably, ants rely a lot on smell to communicate.
I love how excited her face is when she's explaining how they share microbes.
Great video, very informative and fun!
Hello Emily, greetings!!
I have a doubt to be clarified, You said that the fertilised eggs become the female ants (the workers) and the unfertilized ones become the mailes (the drones) so my clarification is required in the following!--->, how is a queen ant get birth ? in the unfertilized egg or in the fertilized egg where some sort of more genetic code is dominant to become a queen ant in the colony?! Pls shine light on this so I cud understand better ;) :) Thanks in Advance!!!
i love how awkward emily gets at the end.
It didn't take a lot to surprise or shock Emily, but it does take a lot to render her speechless, and Carrie has done it. Congratulations.
Great video, more insects please!
What can I say about this episode, it was brilliant like all Brain Scoop is brilliant :D I like the alternation between looking a broad categories at the museum to focusing on specific topic like this episode. It keeps everything mixed and fun
Who knew ants could be so cool?
these episodes keep getting better and better~
Loved it, loved how the scientist lady had a humor about it. sometimes scientist types are very matter of fact she's laughing talking about ants shitting in each others mouths
Thank you. More videos about Ants and Insects Please.
That's just... wow. I don't even know if I wanted to know all that :D
Even though it would be pretty cool to have swords for arms, I really like my hands and opposable thumbs so I can eat my own food. =)
Loved this video and loved this lady's explanations.
Ants are my FAVOURITE animals. Please do more on insects, 'cause they rule!
This was so fascinating, I had no idea that they lived in all female colonies and could get so evovled they can't feed themselves.
Nature sure is wonderfully strage through our eyes and perception some times.
Is the all female colony thing something that is a trait for all kinds of ants? If so, that just seems so out there to me. Wauw!
So you could yell at them and call them butt lickers, and they'd be arms raised like "wuh?!
This was so fascinating, I can't believe this isn't taught more in school biology. Hope to see more of Corrie, she is great!
Cleary Corrie loves her job!
6:26
is gold
What tool, machine or, uh, what ever a door would classify as, do ants not yet have as a body part? Ants are just crazy!
now i understand why Michael had to edit this all day, think of all the inappropriate wording they had to change XD this is fascinating, thanks Emily and Dr. Corrie!
This was great! I'm a beekeeper and knew that there were a lot of similarities in ant and honeybee colonies. I wanted to look into it when I had time but I appreciate you doing the work for me, Emily!!! Honeybees, of course, don't have the same size modification that the ants do, but they do feed each other as part of the nectar processing system. However, it's all tongue-to-tongue (actually, proboscis-to-proboscis) and not oral to anal. Thank goodness! Honeybees will actually hold their poop during the winter cold so that they keep the inside of the hive clean. And then the first warm day, they will all go on a "cleansing flight." They're doing that at my house right now. You can hear the sighs of relief from our back door.
I wonder how the individual ants get so specialised, especially seeing as they're apparently genetically very close. Is it just small genetic differences which happen at random; or is it perhaps something post-natal like hormones which determine their specialisation?
I see, thanks! ^^
Jelle van Merrienboer thebrainscoop32 minutes ago
"From what Corrie told me during our interview, this is determined primarily by diet. Larvae are fed more or less depending on the requirements of the overall colony. For example, if there are a lot of worker ants, they'll feed the new batch of larvae more in order to get the big solider ants, and vice versa. So, it's pretty interesting that the ants as a collective whole are able to determine and enforce the colony dynamic from generation to generation. "
Emily inspired me to volunteer at my local museum, thank you :)
"You ever wonder why where here?"
Corrie seems so great! So exited about everything!
Emily's face near the end...priceless.
Nice one for the former bio student I am. Thank you !
I love how excited she is to talk about ants! :D
Corrie is adorable! And she's so passionate. I love her.
One of my favourites so far
I LOVE ANTS! Also, sweet tattoos!
Badass! I know this is my inner 6-year-old talking, but... MORE BUGS!!! Thanks for the vid, Emily.
so they're romANTic?
That wasp pretty terrible.