I personally found this video to be fantastic. It was interesting and filled with just enough personal touches, comments on their adventures while researching or reactions of people or other animals, to keep it warm and not overly academic in tone. Thank you.
That was awesome! The best most interesting video I've ever seen on ants. I will watch it again. I have to cuz its jam packed full of information and amazing videography. Just Fabulous! Oh, and the narrator has a pleasant voice.
I'm a 3rd the way through, great video. It would be cool to do a doc. on the column raider Eciton. Specifically E. hamatum or E. rapax. Studying the attacks on other social insects would be very interesting.
It’s interesting the likeness of the South American “Army Ants” to those of their brethren in Africa, the Dorylus. Better known as Driver Ants, Safari Ants or Saifu. Both will go out “hunting” in huge swarms and render the population of invertebrates, et al, to almost zero. And both will make other animals flee at their approach. Both are nomadic to a point too. But there are subtle differences too. Driver Ant workers are totally blind.Not even a sign of a vestigial eye. Driver Ants, even though they have the capability to sting, will rarely use it and just rely on their very powerful mandibles to tear anything they capture apart. This even includes small mammals that are unable to evade and get caught in the driver Ant’s huge swarms. And when I mean huge, where the South American Army Ants nests are up to a million at most, a Driver Ant nest can number 30 million. As mentioned above, with the Army Ants, they rarely use large pieces of dismembered “booty” as food and generally discard it once taken back to the nest preferring to “eat” small food stuff such as larvae. But with the Driver Ants, they have the capability with their powerful mandibles, to totally dismember large invertebrates, small reptiles and even small mammals as food to take back to their nests. And like the Army Ants, when Driver Ant swarms in East Africa enter a village and its surrounding fields, they are welcomed as they’ll remove crop pests and other invertebrates that humans are not keen on. It’s free pest control on a massive scale. Though the Africans do remove livestock such as chickens etcetera from the Driver Ant swarms for their own protection. This is a fascinating video and gives a huge insight into the whole ecological system that surrounds the Army Ants.
I'm very confused about some of the taxonomy. Jaguars are Panthera onca, and I have seen nothing in any documentation about them being associated with Tigris in any way, because Panthera tigris is the species for the tiger. I can't even find something historic that suggests a Tigris genus that the jaguar belonged to 🤔
From the beginning, if insects were the size of man there would be no human race! I can't imagine humans throwing sticks and stones at a rampaging army of ants or dive bombing hornets. The invention of the wheel would not have helped us at all to say the least... lol. Great work in putting together these battles!
As interesting as this is there seems to be some evidence that contradicts evidence of other studies. This does not mean either study is mistaken in their findings rather it means there must be further study to find out why, if both are accurate, the contradictions exist.
The Amazon is NOT a “green hell”. The Amazon is not usually dangerous. The Amazon cats rarely attack humans. The Amazon is fascinating at night. The documentary reflects a very old mindset.
U know I've never seen a site as sad as wen my tetramorium queen ant died cause I maybe interfered with an adoption process(simply the queen was not allowed to care 4 the brewd from the super colony so the worker attached itself to the queens antenni n umm yea interference so I put the test tube by the super colonies entrance in my house with the dead queen n she had 2 n 1 died cause of the adoption well they carried the queen out m gave her a formal burial I hope but her baby wouldn't leave the tube till some new brother tetramorium came out n now her baby is with the super colony n hope in gud social order
Theres gotta b more than 1 queen so I think maybe it's because the brewd wasnt hers idk but would love to study if possable the social order of a super colony
How can anyone with a functioning brain look at the close up scan of the ants antennae at 7:30, and conclude that it is the result of evolution? Every part of the ants antennae is specifically designed for what it does! You don’t develop all those sense organs by random genetic mutations, only a fool could think so! To think that these ants have continuously survived for millions of years is preposterous! How would a species of ant be able to evolve different types of ant, as in soldier ants with huge jaws, versus the worker ants with smaller jaws? How would ants evolve to survive by laying 100,000 eggs at a time, just to move them all over the next 3 weeks and start the process over again? These insects were created like this!
29.37 you lied something little. First Ants it's not blind . Fact it's that how we see is little funny... We see gold signature of enemies. This is not we are blind. Nope soldier see's different not gold signature. But mixture signature. Welcome Ants colony's we looking always great bug's to anjoy afterlife
43:40..We have no evidence to show if this procedure will hurt the Queen or NOT??!! Let ME cut into you with sharp scissors to see if, YOU need evidence or NOT.. That it will HURT!! Like you didn't notice her leg's kicking hard?? The Documentary was good non-the-less.
