Best Of Ants | BBC Earth 

Who need Game of Thrones while you can just watch ants.

An ant's life is so dramatic, it could be a tv series.

*slug thinking he won* *Ants with soil* Slug: “why do I hear boss music?”

In case you are wondering, they do not always eat the eggs they loot from the defeated nest. Some species of ants carry them home and raise them. You could say "as their own", but it's more like "as slaves". Sometimes ants are so human it's frightening.

Ant Eggs: The Forbidden Rice

“Ants keep slugs alive” *ants proceed to absolutely annihilate the slug...*

Queen: *farts* oopsie Male ant: *INHALES* it's go time

The ants putting dirt on the slug shows a level of problem-solving skills that I would NEVER have expected from them!!! This had to come from a single ant getting an idea to use something to soak up that slime, and either knew dirt was good for the job, or experimented until they found the right material. That, or some saw the benefit of it having happened by accident, understood what had happened well enough to want to employ that method again (which also shows planning ahead), and reproduced the conditions. Either way, that is some kind of impressive behavior for such a small-brained creature. So wild... wow!

Litteraly anything : *exists* Ants : N U T R I E N T S

The French: decapitate the king Ants : Oui

The male ant be like: ‘I like ‘em big, I like ‘em CHUNKY’

Nobody- Ant in your backyard- "Execute Order 66"

'His job done, he retires from the royal chamber, and dies.'

Despite them being such simple creatures at their core, Ants are some of the most amazing insects out there. They can perform agriculture, keep livestock, work in symbiosis with countless other species of insect, wage wars, establish borders... and even adapt to handle almost anything they come across. And yet I still get surprised, I had no idea that some species produce "Kings", or that some ants can revolt against unsatisfactory queens. Billions of these tiny, simple insects working together to perform such complex and almost humanlike tasks, and they're so tiny that this happens all around us without us even noticing. (Or them really noticing us!)

I feel there's one guy who's job is only to stir Lasagne to make all the 'squelching ants' sound for the entire series.

The final attack felt like a scene from Game of Thrones...cold

I'd like to give a moment of silence for the camera man who had to shrink himself to record the footage

That stuff with the dirt and the slug was wayyyy to smart 😬 we're so lucky these things are tiny 😅

Question: How do you get these amazingly well-focused shots without disturbing the ant colonies?

Ants have always fascinated me. I knew they were smart but I never expected to see problem solving with the slug.

So let me get this straight A male got attracted by the queen's "smell" Followed it Got ambushed Had to "John wick" his wings to shed weight to boink And then boinks And then... Dies. Okay.

so when an ant queen get bored ,she decide to create an army ,cool trick

Well done Antman. I knew you would be a great cameraman.

Humans: so what’s it like to be an ant? Ant: ever play Warhammer 40k? Humans: yeah? Ant: yeah.

Ants are fascinating man

Then some guys drop molten aluminum into the soil and transform the entire ant emperor into an valuable work art

He can say it in a way that gets you in at first then gets you deeper and deeper the more you watch. And he always has the perfect thing to say for every scene

These ants smarter than my co workers

Great now I feel like ants are crawling on my body.

The slug getting eaten was crazy

We really need to thank Hank Pym for making this footage possible.

Larvae: What’s for dinner, Mum..? Worker Ant : yes exactly.

Editor: How much sound effects do you want to use Director: YES....

Imagine having your body parts ripped off and eaten and then dying just to get some...you know

Ant raider: RAID STEAL THE GOLD Ants:NO OUR GOLD Me:so eggs are gold so its basically a bank robbery

These clips are fascinating, and somewhat creepy in parts. But I've learned to thoroughly appreciate them over the last couple of years. There's a channel called Ants Canada and the guy whose channel it is, is a real expert in the subject. He raises colonies from a single queen. Those first eggs (in the first video) become "nanitics", and they're smaller and shorter-lived than the future generations. But they're the ones raised by the queen, who turns the muscle tissue from where her wings were attached into a sort of soup for the larvae. She won't eat anything until the nanitics can fetch food themselves. The channel's owner is so dedicated to ants that he's having a house built with a two-storey "ant room" in it! If you like ants, I thoroughly recommend you go watch him.

That male ant in the fourth one was an absolute unit. LMAO.

5:39 you can say he .... ‘came and went’ 😂😂

"They take everything, including new borns." Ant: I'll be taking this, yoink!

20:00 “Leave me here go on- make the coral proud....”

Me: Finds this entertaining Me when ants are in my house: Do you know what are the consequences?

Man this guy is good. I felt horrified when he described them being annihilated. “The once great ruler torn apart” lol.

Ants literally have empires and fight wars... this is so amazing

That slug got absolutely annihilated holy shit

I just can't imagine the amount of hardwork and time is implemented in each of the videos... Speechless..........

After that ending, all I hear is... And now the rains, weep o'er his halls, with not a soul to hear....

Queen Ant: Im the one charge! You will listen to me! Daughter Ant: You "were" in charge! Past tense! My time for Queen is now! Matricide!

I once encountered an ant war between larger brown ants and smaller brown ants, it’s so brutal as the smaller ants fought courageously to fend off the invaders, but to no avail. They were rooted out from their nest and dismembered, with heads and limbs littering the ground around the nest. It’s sad to watch but that’s nature. Another thing is spiders waylaying underneath pebbles along the ant path; the spiders would dash out and rapidly tie the victim ant up with silk into a bundle…

This is insane - brilliant - kind of disturbing - better than any horror movie

Little do majority of the people watching this emphasise just how long they've had to spend when watching them lay and Grow then hatch months of photographic supervision

Great video. Complete ant life cycle:- Ant worker, eggs, queen, bee, ant battle field, looting, fighting. 👍👌👏

What a movie, wow the story was great, their acting was very good, the fight scenes vfx are best, wow such a great movie I watched.

just imagine all the ant battles going on around the world right at this very moment.

Slug:aaaahhhhh!!! The cameraman:most intresting

I searched “ants” and this was the first result

Thanks for the camera-ant the helped making this masterpiece!

Who knew ants could have wars We will call it “ *THE GREAT ANT WAR* “

2:39 “male *and* pulls off own wing” 🤣🤣

"All living beings roaming the earth and winged birds soaring in the sky are communities like yourselves...." Surah Al-An'am - 38

Amazing footage! Bravo to the patient camera man for documenting these amazing images !

I won't deny that as fascinating as they are, I felt a sudden impulsive desire to "Raid" that whole colony when they were barbequing that poor slug.

video title: "best of ants" me, an ant fenatic: *immediantly clicks*

Stunning footage as always!

Its just incredible

Team work divides the task And multiplies the success

The sound of the slug being eaten was revolting😵😫

Oh hell yeah this is the content I've been waiting for

I'm really amazed how their mic got the sounds of the ants 😳

Who else felt sorry for that slug? Brutal!

12:51Long live the queen... THIS IS GROSE MAN. *It's own larvae feeding on the corpse of its mother. What an offspring*

While watching this I am constantly watching around

After seeing how ants can be, I now have a deep respect for anteaters

Ant queen belong to the streets

Salute to the tiny cameraman who went in there to film this! Or maybe they are human-sized ants

0:32 Baby Ants: "Who you calling a pinhead"

Such a great job u have done...if we observe it closely..so many wonders on the earth..feeling like it is impossible to imagine the god..how many wonders he has done in each nd every little living on the earth...

Just to remember, these things were so big millions years ago

What do you call an ant that won't go away? PermanANT

Fascinating

So well shot and wonderful voiceover

Ants are hard working and adorable.

how clean and tidy these animals are.. beautiful pictures BBC!

This is mind blowing

They are sooooo adorable❤❤❤❤❤❤

Amazing how all the Queens dont attack each other for dominance and control

RU-vid: hey wanna watch some ants Me: nah Im good Im about to go to slee- RU-vid: its the best of ants! Me: WHOA NOW THATS INTERESTING I NEED TO WATCH THAT NOW

Merci beaucoup

QUEEN ANT

I love how the Xenomorphs are based on ants

That is exactly what I needed in these awful times

THIS IS AMAZING

Love animal documentaries shows that even small living things can still conduct wars and have a hierarchy system

The decapitated Queen reminds me of the assassination of Julius Caesar

'Empire of the Desert Ants' was a great documentary!

What a really beautiful animal

Ants are just so amazing❤

One of few reasons I love winter: bugs, ants, insects go to...."hell".

Can we all give respect to the camera crew? They can literally do anything.

What an amazing ending!!

Such smart and fascinating creatures whenever I go outside I always look for ant hills in the hopes of destroying their nest and finding a queen