This is funny because ant mimicry is a thing. Dave isn't actually a leaf cutter ant (who are all female except for drones anyway)...Dave is an ant spider.
One of my grandsons is named David. It means "beloved". He is a very smart, hard working, young man. He can tell you about the benefits of manure in the compost pile and the garden. We have always told him that he is our favorite David !
When I was doing tree research abroad in Costa Rica, my colleagues were studying leaf cutter ants. They were seeing how fast they go, and they marked out a distance with little pieces of red paper. But one of the ants decided it was a leaf cutting and picked it up to take back to the nest. So among all the green you could see a little bit of red slowly moving up the trail.
Could do it with some good quality video and some good object-tracking software - talk to the computer science/AI researchers and see if they know any off the shelf or have a good degree/masters/PhD who'd like a challenge.
well rejoice all ye subscribers, because it looks like he's been working on quite a few videos, since he's been releasing new ones regularly recently after years of silence! may we continue to learn how the various critters do!
That's cold, and hilarious. Another reason to not tappy tappy your larvae on their heads...... They will become a David that think that fecal matter pieces are leaves.........
Lol you should do a review of RU-vid Content Creator Species with Zefrank, or true facts about RU-vidrs as a species. Either way, if you guys teamed up the product would be diamonds
@Hugh Jaanus I can say front just fine. Lmao, where do you get that we can't pronounce front? 😂🤔 Just because a few dumbass Americans can't say certain words, doesn't mean none of us can. I'm sure whatever country you live in has plenty of dipshits that can't speak properly as well. So try rephrasing that to, "Why do people have problems pronouncing 'Front'?" Weirdo.
@@MrRight0930 They are like cells in a body, simply reacting to networks of vast stimuli.. all alive themselves.. but all small pieces of a gigantic, vast, more complex organism
I am of the firm belief that David simply knows something the rest of us do not. David is ahead of his time, we should all look to David to future advances! Or just put him in the corner and ignore him. One of the two, but never both.
it's like my pappy always said, "If at first you don't succeed, milk the aphid by stroking their rears to stimulate the flow of sugar rich secretions." But then again, he was in a mental hospital at the time so we really didn't think much of it.
Mel A well, that was with meds on a good day, but when he started giving live "demonstrations" at local bus stops we had to do something, and the police didn't buy the whole performance art excuse
I get the impression Frank has been uploading videos for the last 4 years, and recently had a "oh shit!" moment when he realized they were all private.
It's because Buzzfeed didn't allow you to post anything that was not on Buzzfeed. I don't know if they changed that or if Frank left Buzzfeed, but whatever the case, I'm for it.
Can I drink them? I've always wanted to taste white tears! 😂 😂 I'm kidding! I'm kidding yall! Oh lordt! I'm on the spectrum this is my sense of humor. I love Madonna, she's cool. 😎
I remember going to an insect exhibit and they had a tank of live leaf cutter ants. As I looked closely at the tank, I noticed the ants were piled up on the corner and crawling their way up. The ants were trying to escape.
They could have just tunnels out of rhe glass by using lasers made out of leaves and refracted light, but that would also require huge amounts of poop for a power sauce.
You've got me thinking: if you cast an anthill in aluminium bronze and then drill out/put in a light bulb to make a chandalier, it would look so cool! Then again, it'd probably be expensive and you have to guestimate the right amount to melt, as well as finding an anthill. Anyway, thanks for putting out pretty cool videos
@@Lodac1977 I don’t know who told you that, but ants have TERRIBLE eyesight. Hate to break it to you, but that’s impossible. They live mostly by touching, scent trails, and tasting. I’d love to see a reputable scientific journal of this experiment you speak of if you’ll post it.
Seriously, I got all giddy when I saw that he actually put out another video. zefrank1 is a RU-vid legend, and for good reason. I just wish he would do another Sad Cat or Dog Diary. But I will gladly take what I can get.
Ah yes, how fondly I remember all of those afternoons of my youth. Drinking Capri Sun, feet comfortably embraced by a pair of pump Reebok sneakers, playing Leafy Leafy, Who's an A**hole from sunrise until sunset. My grandmother would have to ring a bell to beckon me home, lest the game would continue deep into the night.
I would like to thank you zefrank1, if not for you I would not have been able to talk about ants for 45 minutes on my Alevel biology paper essay on the importance of interactions between organisms
I have to say every time you mention David in your videos I feel honored to have been chosen to be in your videos portraying the”Ant” Who can forget my all time Academy award nominated as Best Crustacean the role of the bubble crab. There are David’s all over the world but there is the one & only... I am The David.
Don't they also give birth to aphids which have no mouths and basically have no use but to mate and die, making them essentially sex-slaves who can't talk?
Finally got around to watching this one. As usual I learn something so thank you. The whole concept of aphids being cows to ants is deeply fascinating. Also, if you're feeling weird about all the secretions, just remember that you probably have a big bowl of secretion in the morning with some plant matter in it, or perhaps you put some secretion in your morning cup of plant matter dirt water.
*Here's* a fun fact: Because this fungus does not spore to reproduce, the new Queen ants will carry a small grain of fungus with them, when they leave the nest to mate.. When starting a new colony, a sucessful Queen ant will lay her eggs, as well as feed this small fungual food supply, with her poop. By the time the young ants hatch, there will be plenty for them to eat.
