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@oh nori In a sense, they have evolved into really rad life forms, some are pretty much the friggin xenomorphs in real life. Search for "Wasps: the literal worse" (i may cause nightmares).
Once, my dad dropped a single piece of trix cereal on the counter. He was about to pick it up until he saw a group of ants march towards it. Then, as the first group was eating, a second group appeared, marched on and started to eat too. This angered the first group, thus starting a whole battle on and around the cereal. It lasted like 15, 20 minutes, there were constant reinforcements too. When the battle ended, there were whole inch large piles of dead ants. We recorded a bit of it as it was happening.
@David West it was summer and it was in the province, ants tend to invade people's houses especially where i come from 😅 i think i found their queen and called it "ghengis ant", but i didn't get to take a picture of it
I'm legit afraid to go into my backyard because the old resident didn't take care of the backyard and did SOMETHING to it. Whatever they did, they left beind a large amount of fire ant killer and there is just this massive kingdom of different ants. Can't take a single step without running into another, usually tiny, ant hill and walking into an ant war. It's like watching a bunch of small countries go to war 24/7.
wow! The taking of the babies is really the key to this success. I was thinking cordyceps-like mind control --- this scariest part is that they develop and simply have no idea that they are slaves.
@d R gee, this is a REALLY tough decision here...do I trust the scientists or some guy on the internet saying "we're not ants so we really don't know!!!"
@d R Science can in fact make conclusions based on the complexity of the brain. Without the proper parts, there's no room for sentience. They don't have the capacity for emotions, or an inner monolog lol and idk why you put superior in quotes, humans are superior in intelligence to an ant and thats a fact
@꧁GlorifiedGremlin꧂ How would you know? You've never been an ant. Science makes no definitive conclusions regarding sentience or self awareness, and really it's impossible to ever prove it one way or another. You're just making baseless assumptions. Besides, human behaviour is just as dependent upon evolutionary and biological factors, we aren't even remotely "superior" in that regard.
I LOVE your ants saga! BTW, I am an English teacher in Spain. I always recommend your videos so my students learn English listening to your perfect and clear diction, while exploring science. Thank you!
Wow more than 400 likes?! That's touching... :') Most students don't appreciate what teachers do or try to do, let alone our bosses... They're quite... Well... Bossy. And greedy. And know little about education. So thanks guys. I hope you meet great teachers. And I hope they don't wear themselves out. Be nice to them. Being a teacher is a heck of a hard work when they really care about their students. Take care!
Wow! First time watching this channel You're like The Infographic Show but with a foreign accent.😆 But this is still sooo educational, keep up the good work😃
@Cosi A Buffo Didn't they made a video about the Argentine Ants Empire which literally a minuscule version of the Imperium of Man. Argentine Ants Empire just like Imperium like in constant endless war, violence civil wars, raids by other ants species, nests constant destroyed by Mankind and other creatures, committed mass genocide on other ants species out of hatred or competition in resources, enemies stalking at their Empire border, fought with huge waves to win, inferior body structure evolutionary compare to their larger stronger competitor ants, losing territories to Fire Ants which had super soldiers as war elephants, billions of upon billions Argentine Ants perished to upkeep their slowly dying Empire, God Antpress (you know where I am going), but despite all the hardship the Argentine Ants refuse to yield, refuse to give up or stay dead, Argentine Ants may not rage against dying light like the Imperium but the Ants will keep fighting with courage and numbers, which is kind of admirable for such annoying pest of nature.
This species is definitely akin to Dark Eldar lol....quick lethal raids...alot of torture to pass the time...and lots of slaves captured. 100s are abducted and brought back to the dark anthill of camorragh.
"You let one ant stand up to us and they ALL might stand up! Those "puny little ants" outnumber us a 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out; there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line!"
@yarpen26 Yeah I agree with you, the franchise used to be very metal in the 80s and 90s until the Company created it being complete ass to it fanbase and abuse the lore and copyright strike despite the Company itself stole lots of stuffs to made 40k, I don't buy stuffs from 40k as well just like reading the lore so I just referenced it for fun.
@long w lenguyen Yeah, thought occured to me 40K would have been a better reference, but I honestly never read, played or watched anything from that particular franchise so I figured it's best not to talk about the stuff I don't know squat about.
@yarpen26 Funny I always saw ants are much closer to the Imperium of Man from 40k than Galactic Empire from Star Wars since ants are more effective in war and atrocities than the average stormtroopers with horrible aims, and to be honest the Ants world feels like A minuscule version of Warhammer 40k
@Alioshax and they only live a few weeks or months. The entire ant world goes through generation after generation in about a months span then u factor in how many ants there are in the world and they're history is immense
@Alioshax You are just not smart enough or are doing this because you've convinced yourself this is an arguement that you have to win on the internet, like a war. Yes Ant colonies obviously have a higher population, wonder why right? Considering they weigh on average 1-5mg, yeah mg not gramms. They weigh 1/1000 of a gram. They barely need resources to survive, infact the queen is producing on average 800 eggs a day which wouldnt even cost her a gram of food, a human weighs on average 70kg, a human needs thousands of calories a day to survive. You also believe that pollution will kill all humans in a few thousand years, what are you talking about? Its incredible you just say the same things every single other person with quite frankly little knowledge talks about. Yes Climate change WILL create problems there is no doubt. But you cannot even fathom any tragedy on such a scaleso there is not a point in talking with you about it. The stupid human has managed to create machines to send us to other planets, us damn stupid humans delved into parts unknown to us and become experts in them, us stupid humans have made our own lifes extremly easy. How stupid of us! Why didnt the 1750 scientists think of our modern problems in 2022! Those foolish idiots!!! You lack the will to gain knowledge since you just want to argue with me, what do you gain from just arguing with me. I know you're wrong so I can only just keep trying to convince you to second guess your ego and your pride and just let it sink in that you are wrong. Humans are superiour to ants. haha
"We are humanizing ants a bit for the story's sake. Don't forget, ants are ants and not people." Pretty sure the unfathomable cosmic entities have said something similar about us at some point.
As a Polyergus, I found this video to be very informing and I thank you for giving me this knowledge to be able to enslave more colonies. I shall tell my queen about this. She'll be thrilled
Imagine living this from the ants perspective! There’s a fantastic Sci-Fi trilogy about ants written by a french author. It’s called The Trilogy of the Ants (La Trilogie des Fourmis), by Bernard Werber. It’s amazing! The books are as follows: 1 - The Empire of The Ants (Les Fourmis) 2 - The Day of The Ants (Le Jour de Fourmis) 3 - The Revolution of The Ants (La Révolution des Fourmis) It features beautiful scenery, a very interesting, twisting and mostly-centered ant storyline (there’s two perspectives - that of the humans and that of ants, and sometimes they split as well because the characters get lost or have conflicting ideas) and adventure from every single point of view. The author masterfully describes with scientifically-accurate details every aspect of the ant’s lives and how they view the world, humans, other animals and even how they progress and discover how to manipulate water to create canals or other insects (like rhinoceros beetles as tanks) as weapons of war. I hope with all my heart that Netflix will someday make a show out of these books.
@Illyasviel von Einzbern Thank you for noticing! I don’t speak French, so I didn’t know about those specific orthographic details. Have a nice day or a nice night!
I was sitting outside my high school library, hanging out with a friend, when we observed individuals from two different species of ants cross paths on the concrete in front of us. One was a red ant and the other a black ant, roughly about the same size as each other. They approached one-another, touched feelers for a few seconds, then both turned around and went back the way they came. Within a couple of minutes two very large armies of ants, one black and one red, approached the spot where the scout ants had met. There must have been a couple hundred ants in each group. It was a battle and it lasted a long time until the red ants eventually killed most of the black ants and the black ants retreated. The red ants collected the dead and returned to where they came from. My friend and I couldn't stop talking about it for weeks. It was the wildest thing we had ever seen.
This video is endorsed by wef. On a serious note though, thank you scientists for studying ant life. Ow my... And maybe this raises the question if slavery is the default social construct? Or something like that. I don't think we're ants.
The rogue murder queen sounds like she's in a video game. Powerful "player" storms the enemy bastion on their own to assassinate the leaders. Once they secure the fiefdom of the first ruler, it becomes like a Real Time Strategy game, manage the resources and automate so you can storm the next fiefdom. And to make things even more difficult, there's a time limit AND no save points to heal at. Basically an RTS and boss rush.
Too bad that they have been proven to be very mischevious and two-faced... They clearly have an agenda, especially when it comes to Climate Change and their dubious sponsorships.
Not gonna lie, the quest of a Polyergus queen to assassinate all the queens in another colony without getting killed herself sounds like a dope premise for a video game or drama miniseries.
Like an animated movie where they give the ants a bit more touch, following the fate of a young queen larvae who survives the take over of her colony by a slaver ant queen. Idk, like a Kids movie, but a bit more brutal. And now this little queen needs to blend in and overthrow the usurper before she gets discovered.
my kitchen was raided some time ago by 2 different looking ants, one was a little big with wings and fewer in numbers and another a very smaller ones and too many in numbers, so they are slaves ants? we sprayed bug sprays of course. rip
These ant videos are great, but if anyone wants to learn more about ants I recommend you read a book called “Adventures among Ants” by Mark Moffet. That book has lots of information about weaver ants, driver ants, marauder ants, slave maker ants, and more!
It blows me away how as a D&D DM, learning about ants consistently gives me the most ideas for D&D monsters and stories. Between this video and ZeFrank's video about Army Ants, i've got enough to write an entire campaign.
I based an enemy faction in my game after the Chimera ants from hunter hunter and combined it with the real science of ants, it’s made them a terrifying enemy.
Running a sci-fi/post-apocalyptic campaign here, these ant behaviors are EXACTLY how I run thri-kreen and neogi. Mind flayers, I treat those differently, but I always have an analogous read-world animal or plant for the “earth creature but with x” types of aliens.
The violence of the ant world is a fascinating parallel to our own. It makes you wonder just how 'advanced' our morality really is. Not whether we could do better morally, but, rather, if our morality is neither as universal nor as special as we believe it to be, even within our own species. If it were so universal and special, we would need neither laws nor prisons because we would all act in accordance with it.
@Tuhljin Tampergauge there's no point in arguing because I disagree with your premise that it is objective, making any argument with your word salad pointless. Goodbye.
Failure to act by standards doesn't mean the standards were wrong. Morality is objective. In that sense, it's universal. People's interpretations of what's ethical are subjective and are thus not universal, and failure to act by the subjective rules obviously doesn't make those rules bad necessarily let alone change what was ACTUALLY the ethical thing, agreed-upon rule or not. And anyone who thinks morality isn't objective has no grounds telling others what's right and wrong and thus shouldn't vote or be a leader. Likewise, nihilists have no business influencing others; you think it's pointless so let others do it. Likewise, adherents of philosophies that logically have to be nihilist, if consistent, should not be allowed influence regardless of whether they see themselves as nihilists when that refusal is, say, the standard "there's no point but I'm not a nihilist" deluded denialism (which is very common when you debate them since they're just people brainwashed into the nihilist view generally but can't take the last step and admit it due to it being a position that's naturally abhorrent to human sensibilities).
this is exemplary. the world of little insignificant ants portrayed as extraordinarily as a human war, with all its complexity, can be described. And it really captures you, it's more exciting than i could have ever imagined insects could get. so cool. thanks!
Thanks for the little thing in the corner reminding people that ants aren't people: I get a little concerned with the amount of anthropomorphization of insects.
I used to have a colony of copper-colored slaver ants in my yard as a kid. I would watch them for hours, as they'd form a raiding party and travel sometimes a hundred meters to their target colony, then carry the eggs back. This video was a cool reminder, thanks!
About the last minute of the video... It's really disappointing to see you promote a harmful and even dangerous idea, that it's consumers' responsibility to limit their carbon footprint, and that personal consumer choices can make any significant impact. The only way to limit effects of the climate crisis is for the governments and international organizations to impose and strictly enforce regulations. Regulations that apply to everyone and more importantly - every company. This idea that we can mitigate climate change if we just all decide to change our lives is ridiculous when you think about it, but it got so normalized that to many people it sounds reasonable. But consider this: if the world didn't come together to sign the Montreal Protocol and then strictly adhere to it, but instead all we did about it was ask people to just do their part and start buying more expensive, CFC-free appliances and aerosols, do you really believe we would have made any significant progress regarding ozone depletion?
After seeing how this channel promotes no scientific information and they are actually a propaganda machine financed by billionaires, I lost all trust and figured out that all the information they spread is horribly false.
That slavery ratio of the first one sounds like the Spartans with the Helots. From slavery to animal husbandry to bridge building, ants are genuinely incredible.
I'll never forget being a kid and my dad showing me an ant colony herding and farming aphids on some garden plants. What a wildly complex behavior for creatures that should seemingly be so simple.
@Fandom guy I see what you're saying, but I think we might have different perspectives on this. As you say, the cells in our bodies and brains are able to perform much more complex tasks than single-cell organisms. I would argue that the same difference of complexity exists between our brain cells and fully formed humans who are part of a collective. It's reasonable to assume that each person would still be able to perform as varied tasks as we do today, and not just modify connections, as you put it. Our brains are fully integrated into physical bodies that they are (more or less) in control over, whereas a hivemind made up of a collective of humans is obviously not physically interconnected to that same degree. The difference lies in communication. Since humans today don't have access to direct brain-to-brain communication, a more rudimentary, artificial form of communication needs to exist for us to be able to function as a collective, i.e. language and memes, and a societal structure that is organised the way we mostly see today. A degree of separation, if you will. But a hivemind *would* have that access to direct communication without that degree of separation, so it's reasonable to assume that the need for language, memes and social hierarchy would become less and less necessary, as the collective learns to utilise its parts without these abstractions. And I would argue that a hirerarchy-less hivemind would be more efficient (and more ethical), as any part of the collective can adapt to perform any task at any time, due to the collective knowledge and direct communication with the hivemind. (And related to this point, since you brought it up: the borg queen is a hotly contested topic among ST fans, as many people (myself included) think it is entirely unnecessary and straight up antithetical to what the borg were conceived to be when they were introduced, and only exists as a focal point that the characters can defeat; when the point of the borg was that there isn't any one focal point, as any part of the borg collective is as much of a threat as any other part of it, so you can't just beat up one special one and call it a day, you have to get creative and use different strategies when dealing with the borg)
@Xcrysis I think what they meant is that we could eradicate entire colonies really quickly if we wanted to. That much is absolutely true. If you get the chance, look into what happens if you pour liquid aluminum into an anthill, it's really neat in macabre way. Could we wipe out all ants? Only if we want to wipe ourselves out with them, and even then it's far from a guarantee.
I don't think humans are capable of eradicating ants, except if you managed to convince the whole global community to make ants enemy number 1 or something
If one takes into account collective intelligence ants are the second most intelligent creatures after human in the animal kingdom. Individually they may be dumb but as an organisation their complexity rivals even humans!
This recent ants series that kurzgesagt has been making is so wonderful. It made me realize that there are so many more organisms with such complex societies and life, other than just humans. I hope they keep on making more of such videos.❤❤
I was walking in my park with my friends when I saw a red ant come near a big black ant. The black ant was actually bigger than the red one, it was like a human met an elephant. When they came near, the black one touched the antennas of the red one then violently killed it. I felt bad for the red ant and squished the black ant.
@Enermax Stephens I would expect her to get ripped not sometimes but most of the time actually, otherwise the slaver ants would've conquered the world long ago.
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also, "war... war never changes" lol
i could see this easily turned into a version of a "cavillation" game lol
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So when did the PolyBillius Gaties queen raid your colony kurzgesag
Sounds like certain people who colonized certain continents
It occurs to me that bees are about as varied as ants and have a similarly brutal existance. You should tell us about this in a future video
@Terrance Nightingale Demons? What is wrong with that
@Senko Loaf! I stand corrected.
@oh nori In a sense, they have evolved into really rad life forms, some are pretty much the friggin xenomorphs in real life. Search for "Wasps: the literal worse" (i may cause nightmares).
@skullcat324 Holy crap! 🤣
@Deadsea 1993 which common ancestor? you mean common ancestor for all insects ?
Once, my dad dropped a single piece of trix cereal on the counter. He was about to pick it up until he saw a group of ants march towards it. Then, as the first group was eating, a second group appeared, marched on and started to eat too. This angered the first group, thus starting a whole battle on and around the cereal. It lasted like 15, 20 minutes, there were constant reinforcements too.
When the battle ended, there were whole inch large piles of dead ants. We recorded a bit of it as it was happening.
@spycrab ant video?
@David West it was summer and it was in the province, ants tend to invade people's houses especially where i come from 😅
i think i found their queen and called it "ghengis ant", but i didn't get to take a picture of it
What kind of kitchen is this 😮
ant
Where is vid
As a Formica ant, this video has freed my mind from my Polyergus captors. I shall spread word to my fellow Formica trapped here. We will rise up!
I'm legit afraid to go into my backyard because the old resident didn't take care of the backyard and did SOMETHING to it. Whatever they did, they left beind a large amount of fire ant killer and there is just this massive kingdom of different ants. Can't take a single step without running into another, usually tiny, ant hill and walking into an ant war. It's like watching a bunch of small countries go to war 24/7.
Sounds like you live in Yugoslaviant
The Hundred Years’ War in your backyard..
@Hrfjio fire ants make living rafts out of themselves.
*they can survive a flood*
Flood it with water. Play God
bro walked in on Mini-Vietnam
its interesting to know that ants do raiding and wars like humans
This looks like one of the coolest concepts for a new game
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i mean i’m fine with grounded lol
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Ants have been my favorite animal since primary school. Good to see they are getting some attention :)
If you're a big fan of ants, you should check out the Fantasy Ant-venture "Chrysalis" really fun book, especially in audio.
It’s cool how ants are their own kingdoms that can go to war and stuff, they’re like their own civilization.
Question. Do these ants only enslave their "distant relatives" or can they enslave other species too?
The fact that this is the fourth ant-centered video from Kurzgesagt makes me believe that this a cemented tradition for this channel now.
I love it.
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@ad my dad makes your videos
What if....if..they on to something
Yeah they were pretty explicit about that in the first ant video they did.
Do more of these weird ants like the Vampire ants, Leafcutter ants, etc.
wow! The taking of the babies is really the key to this success. I was thinking cordyceps-like mind control --- this scariest part is that they develop and simply have no idea that they are slaves.
Great work bro. Very informative video. Thanks for sharing with us.
Amazing Content , great knowledge and lucid explanation.
It’s astonishing for a singular ant to even have the chance of taking over an entire colony
@biggest fan nice argument. Unfortunately I am literally the creator of the multiverse. I could erase your entire civilization if I wanted to
@d R gee, this is a REALLY tough decision here...do I trust the scientists or some guy on the internet saying "we're not ants so we really don't know!!!"
@Itsme Alex yeah
maybe a shooter
@d R Science can in fact make conclusions based on the complexity of the brain. Without the proper parts, there's no room for sentience. They don't have the capacity for emotions, or an inner monolog lol and idk why you put superior in quotes, humans are superior in intelligence to an ant and thats a fact
@꧁GlorifiedGremlin꧂ How would you know? You've never been an ant. Science makes no definitive conclusions regarding sentience or self awareness, and really it's impossible to ever prove it one way or another. You're just making baseless assumptions.
Besides, human behaviour is just as dependent upon evolutionary and biological factors, we aren't even remotely "superior" in that regard.
I LOVE your ants saga!
BTW, I am an English teacher in Spain. I always recommend your videos so my students learn English listening to your perfect and clear diction, while exploring science. Thank you!
Wow more than 400 likes?! That's touching... :')
Most students don't appreciate what teachers do or try to do, let alone our bosses... They're quite... Well... Bossy. And greedy. And know little about education.
So thanks guys. I hope you meet great teachers. And I hope they don't wear themselves out.
Be nice to them. Being a teacher is a heck of a hard work when they really care about their students.
Take care!
Would’ve loved to have you as a teacher. W teacher :)
@jeshux1994 haha it simple mean Win or best
I must be honest.. I had to look up "W teacher" in the Urban Dictionary hahahaha
Thank u guys
W teacher
Always something new to discover with ants.
Wow! First time watching this channel
You're like The Infographic Show but with a foreign accent.😆
But this is still sooo educational, keep up the good work😃
I feel like this would make a really good science fiction movie.
The more I learn about ants, the more I realize how metal their lifestyle is
@Cosi A Buffo Didn't they made a video about the Argentine Ants Empire which literally a minuscule version of the Imperium of Man. Argentine Ants Empire just like Imperium like in constant endless war, violence civil wars, raids by other ants species, nests constant destroyed by Mankind and other creatures, committed mass genocide on other ants species out of hatred or competition in resources, enemies stalking at their Empire border, fought with huge waves to win, inferior body structure evolutionary compare to their larger stronger competitor ants, losing territories to Fire Ants which had super soldiers as war elephants, billions of upon billions Argentine Ants perished to upkeep their slowly dying Empire, God Antpress (you know where I am going), but despite all the hardship the Argentine Ants refuse to yield, refuse to give up or stay dead, Argentine Ants may not rage against dying light like the Imperium but the Ants will keep fighting with courage and numbers, which is kind of admirable for such annoying pest of nature.
Still cool
This species is definitely akin to Dark Eldar lol....quick lethal raids...alot of torture to pass the time...and lots of slaves captured.
100s are abducted and brought back to the dark anthill of camorragh.
@Oscar Moreno you literally missed the meaning, super fun guy at all parties 🎉
They are not metal, they are made of carbon. All life on earth is carbon based and therefore not metal
what a fascinating video about ants i certainly hope no one in the comments is extrapolating this as an allegory for humanity at all
"All species deserve love!"
slaver ants: exist
"nevermind"
"You let one ant stand up to us and they ALL might stand up! Those "puny little ants" outnumber us a 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out; there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line!"
@Matic Defender of Soviets and Marxism thinks America is unjust and OTHERS don't understand economics. 🤡🤡🤡
@yarpen26 Yeah I agree with you, the franchise used to be very metal in the 80s and 90s until the Company created it being complete ass to it fanbase and abuse the lore and copyright strike despite the Company itself stole lots of stuffs to made 40k, I don't buy stuffs from 40k as well just like reading the lore so I just referenced it for fun.
@long w lenguyen Yeah, thought occured to me 40K would have been a better reference, but I honestly never read, played or watched anything from that particular franchise so I figured it's best not to talk about the stuff I don't know squat about.
@yarpen26 Funny I always saw ants are much closer to the Imperium of Man from 40k than Galactic Empire from Star Wars since ants are more effective in war and atrocities than the average stormtroopers with horrible aims, and to be honest the Ants world feels like A minuscule version of Warhammer 40k
@Yu Naru I look at America, I see a failing state full of needless injustice
Amazing Video. I didn’t know there’s a War happening right under my feet!
Please never end the ant series. One of my favorite types of videos on your channel
@Cyan_Oxy The way I see it, space stuff is always cool, but anyone can do that. I've never been more interested in ants than I am watching Kurzgesagt.
@Cyan_Oxy Yes, I actually agree
Yea I love ants!
True, I've been interested in ants since Sim Ant. Such a great game
@chris The space stuff is probably a bit cooler but the ants are a close second.
Legendas em português, por favoooor
Thanks for the ant video I was hoping to see one for a long time
One of their craziest videos they've made......So good
This was amazing to watch, thanks
It's amazing that ants quite literally have their own lore
@Alioshax and they only live a few weeks or months. The entire ant world goes through generation after generation in about a months span then u factor in how many ants there are in the world and they're history is immense
@Brave Abandon Meant to say Archimedes, my bad.
@Alioshax Aristotle died from natural causes?
Even crazier is it's canon
@Alioshax You are just not smart enough or are doing this because you've convinced yourself this is an arguement that you have to win on the internet, like a war.
Yes Ant colonies obviously have a higher population, wonder why right? Considering they weigh on average 1-5mg, yeah mg not gramms. They weigh 1/1000 of a gram. They barely need resources to survive, infact the queen is producing on average 800 eggs a day which wouldnt even cost her a gram of food, a human weighs on average 70kg, a human needs thousands of calories a day to survive. You also believe that pollution will kill all humans in a few thousand years, what are you talking about? Its incredible you just say the same things every single other person with quite frankly little knowledge talks about. Yes Climate change WILL create problems there is no doubt. But you cannot even fathom any tragedy on such a scaleso there is not a point in talking with you about it. The stupid human has managed to create machines to send us to other planets, us damn stupid humans delved into parts unknown to us and become experts in them, us stupid humans have made our own lifes extremly easy. How stupid of us! Why didnt the 1750 scientists think of our modern problems in 2022! Those foolish idiots!!!
You lack the will to gain knowledge since you just want to argue with me, what do you gain from just arguing with me. I know you're wrong so I can only just keep trying to convince you to second guess your ego and your pride and just let it sink in that you are wrong.
Humans are superiour to ants. haha
It always amazes me how humans didn’t invent anything, ants did everything first 😅😂
Every time I watch something with bugs in it, I get little tingling sensations on my skin as if they're crawling on me! 😅
Thanks for posting something again that doesn't make me question my existence
"We are humanizing ants a bit for the story's sake. Don't forget, ants are ants and not people."
Pretty sure the unfathomable cosmic entities have said something similar about us at some point.
As a Polyergus, I found this video to be very informing and I thank you for giving me this knowledge to be able to enslave more colonies. I shall tell my queen about this. She'll be thrilled
@Trey4x4 yawn
How do you know your queen is YOUR queen, pheromone-drone?
There was an enslaved formica ant who also wrote a comment here. Somebody must warn them of the attack!
haha so funny
Go getem
Imagine living this from the ants perspective!
There’s a fantastic Sci-Fi trilogy about ants written by a french author. It’s called The Trilogy of the Ants (La Trilogie des Fourmis), by Bernard Werber. It’s amazing!
The books are as follows:
1 - The Empire of The Ants (Les Fourmis)
2 - The Day of The Ants (Le Jour de Fourmis)
3 - The Revolution of The Ants (La Révolution des Fourmis)
It features beautiful scenery, a very interesting, twisting and mostly-centered ant storyline (there’s two perspectives - that of the humans and that of ants, and sometimes they split as well because the characters get lost or have conflicting ideas) and adventure from every single point of view. The author masterfully describes with scientifically-accurate details every aspect of the ant’s lives and how they view the world, humans, other animals and even how they progress and discover how to manipulate water to create canals or other insects (like rhinoceros beetles as tanks) as weapons of war.
I hope with all my heart that Netflix will someday make a show out of these books.
So cool! Thanks I'll check them out
@Illyasviel von Einzbern Thank you for noticing! I don’t speak French, so I didn’t know about those specific orthographic details. Have a nice day or a nice night!
Le jour*, not la jour. And La Révolution
This is mind bogling. I mean did the nature really invent all of this high level behaviour we think that we invented as a civilized species....
In the Game of Ants you either win or you die there is no middle ground
- Cersei Polyergus
The single Polyergus young queen raiding a colony on her own is the embodiment of "gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss" lmao
I was sitting outside my high school library, hanging out with a friend, when we observed individuals from two different species of ants cross paths on the concrete in front of us. One was a red ant and the other a black ant, roughly about the same size as each other. They approached one-another, touched feelers for a few seconds, then both turned around and went back the way they came. Within a couple of minutes two very large armies of ants, one black and one red, approached the spot where the scout ants had met. There must have been a couple hundred ants in each group. It was a battle and it lasted a long time until the red ants eventually killed most of the black ants and the black ants retreated. The red ants collected the dead and returned to where they came from.
My friend and I couldn't stop talking about it for weeks. It was the wildest thing we had ever seen.
"Same hour tomorrow?"
youtube try not to lie challenge (difficulty: impossible)
Once I saw 2 squirrles fighting when I was going to school. They both were beating the shit out of each ot
Negotiations ended poorly
that sounds fucking sick ngl
Love this video on European countries by Kurzgesagt.
Oh wow, should we as humans do something about this? We've managed to end slavery among us, and we should help other species to achieve same!
This video is endorsed by wef.
On a serious note though, thank you scientists for studying ant life. Ow my... And maybe this raises the question if slavery is the default social construct? Or something like that. I don't think we're ants.
"I for one, welcome our new ant overlords..."
The rogue murder queen sounds like she's in a video game. Powerful "player" storms the enemy bastion on their own to assassinate the leaders. Once they secure the fiefdom of the first ruler, it becomes like a Real Time Strategy game, manage the resources and automate so you can storm the next fiefdom. And to make things even more difficult, there's a time limit AND no save points to heal at. Basically an RTS and boss rush.
someone should make a game out of this. it doesn't need to be about ants too, this idea is relaly interesting as a game.
The "smarter-than-you" attitude however, is very much boomer. i tend to base my categorizations off meaning more than just the words themselves.
Rogue murder queen is the main character.
@ALE melchenko lol wdym, "touch grass" is a very zoomer phrase
@Javier S Ok boomer.
As a kolonised citizen i felt this all the way in my ancestry
Can we take a moment to appreciate the 'Avatar the last airbender' reference in the beginning
appreciated
"I want Warhammer 40K."
Mom: "We got that at home."
The 40K Warhammer happening in the garden:
Ants sure know how to get things done 👴🏼
"Hey, Muhammad is running away! Get back to the fields!" 🐜🐜🐜
Kurzgesagt never disappoints us when it comes to animations and information without us getting bored.
The dickriding is unreal
Too bad that they have been proven to be very mischevious and two-faced... They clearly have an agenda, especially when it comes to Climate Change and their dubious sponsorships.
@Filip i
I totally agree with you. The design is perfect as always
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7:31 That's some crazy Game of Thrones shit right there. Brutal.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
Thank you for the subtitles Thank you to everyone
I can't lie, I was going to kill an ant that entered my home the other day but it convinced me not to and now, we're roommates.
Not gonna lie, the quest of a Polyergus queen to assassinate all the queens in another colony without getting killed herself sounds like a dope premise for a video game or drama miniseries.
Sounds like a sick shonen anime
@thoa tran du ma
ok
This whole thing seems like a crazy anime universe lol
Like an animated movie where they give the ants a bit more touch, following the fate of a young queen larvae who survives the take over of her colony by a slaver ant queen.
Idk, like a Kids movie, but a bit more brutal.
And now this little queen needs to blend in and overthrow the usurper before she gets discovered.
my kitchen was raided some time ago by 2 different looking ants, one was a little big with wings and fewer in numbers and another a very smaller ones and too many in numbers, so they are slaves ants? we sprayed bug sprays of course. rip
These ant videos are great, but if anyone wants to learn more about ants I recommend you read a book called “Adventures among Ants” by Mark Moffet. That book has lots of information about weaver ants, driver ants, marauder ants, slave maker ants, and more!
I just went from watching the atla intro and went to this right before katara said "everything changed." I am so good at this
Slavery will always come at one point to every intelligent species
It blows me away how as a D&D DM, learning about ants consistently gives me the most ideas for D&D monsters and stories. Between this video and ZeFrank's video about Army Ants, i've got enough to write an entire campaign.
I based an enemy faction in my game after the Chimera ants from hunter hunter and combined it with the real science of ants, it’s made them a terrifying enemy.
Running a sci-fi/post-apocalyptic campaign here, these ant behaviors are EXACTLY how I run thri-kreen and neogi. Mind flayers, I treat those differently, but I always have an analogous read-world animal or plant for the “earth creature but with x” types of aliens.
I was thinking the same thing from watching this video. I've never even DMed, but if I do, this is gonna be an inspiration.
@Snage - The Snake Mage just need to add mosquitos in there and you've successfully created a combination of every flavor of bad
Lotta ppl here would love the story/webcomic “Hive” I think it was called it’s a post apocalyptic setting with giant ant-wasp hybrids
Rise up against your oppressors my ant brothers!
I think it's cool. I love watching these videos as they help me to learn English enhance my knowledge
This is exactly what me and my friends do to villagers in Minecraft
Is it just me or does anyone else think animated ants look scarier than the real life ones?
"How to make new slave colonies" yes! This was what I have been searching on the internet the whole day. Thanks Kurzgesagt!
@Steven Cooper evolution
@Steven Cooper -👴🏻
I feel like those southern ants know a thing or two about this!
kurzgesagt i need more space contents 😭❤️❤️
Amazing Video. I didn’t know there’s War right under my feet!
So you're saying that slavery is natural and occurs often in nature? Interesting...
The violence of the ant world is a fascinating parallel to our own. It makes you wonder just how 'advanced' our morality really is. Not whether we could do better morally, but, rather, if our morality is neither as universal nor as special as we believe it to be, even within our own species. If it were so universal and special, we would need neither laws nor prisons because we would all act in accordance with it.
@Tuhljin Tampergauge there's no point in arguing because I disagree with your premise that it is objective, making any argument with your word salad pointless. Goodbye.
Failure to act by standards doesn't mean the standards were wrong. Morality is objective. In that sense, it's universal. People's interpretations of what's ethical are subjective and are thus not universal, and failure to act by the subjective rules obviously doesn't make those rules bad necessarily let alone change what was ACTUALLY the ethical thing, agreed-upon rule or not.
And anyone who thinks morality isn't objective has no grounds telling others what's right and wrong and thus shouldn't vote or be a leader. Likewise, nihilists have no business influencing others; you think it's pointless so let others do it. Likewise, adherents of philosophies that logically have to be nihilist, if consistent, should not be allowed influence regardless of whether they see themselves as nihilists when that refusal is, say, the standard "there's no point but I'm not a nihilist" deluded denialism (which is very common when you debate them since they're just people brainwashed into the nihilist view generally but can't take the last step and admit it due to it being a position that's naturally abhorrent to human sensibilities).
@langer ...why?
@GreenSteve lmao what Arab wants and enter the chat
@John i feel we should supply the fomica ants with NLAWS, Himars and Leo’s
this is exemplary. the world of little insignificant ants portrayed as extraordinarily as a human war, with all its complexity, can be described. And it really captures you, it's more exciting than i could have ever imagined insects could get. so cool. thanks!
there's a lot of good nature shows about all kinds of ants with amazing videograhy!
@Laecy Lions on much smaller scales do so too.
@jkid1134 not for us
@Nakupo Buhay depends on who u ask
I bet you're significant...
Thanks for the little thing in the corner reminding people that ants aren't people: I get a little concerned with the amount of anthropomorphization of insects.
I, for one, welcome our new Polyergus overlords.
Very interesting video, but the species name should be pronounced the Latin way formica (which means "ant", indeed), not the English one, formaica.
Wait so Bugs Life is actually scientificaly accurate if you replace the grasshoppers with more ants?
I used to have a colony of copper-colored slaver ants in my yard as a kid. I would watch them for hours, as they'd form a raiding party and travel sometimes a hundred meters to their target colony, then carry the eggs back. This video was a cool reminder, thanks!
@Abyss Strider ok I get it. Can we all agree to stop replying to this comment.
@j Walster Hundred meters is not a lot, it's like walking for 40-60 seconds in one direction.
@Cyan_Oxy It's possible they would them across their lawn, and across a road/fence into another lawn/park
@Cyan_Oxy uh... What if he grew in the country?
@Random Stuff bruh, the first reply changed what they said. They said 100 meters would be a kilometer
What would happen if a slaver ant colony encountered an army ant colony?
About the last minute of the video... It's really disappointing to see you promote a harmful and even dangerous idea, that it's consumers' responsibility to limit their carbon footprint, and that personal consumer choices can make any significant impact. The only way to limit effects of the climate crisis is for the governments and international organizations to impose and strictly enforce regulations. Regulations that apply to everyone and more importantly - every company. This idea that we can mitigate climate change if we just all decide to change our lives is ridiculous when you think about it, but it got so normalized that to many people it sounds reasonable. But consider this: if the world didn't come together to sign the Montreal Protocol and then strictly adhere to it, but instead all we did about it was ask people to just do their part and start buying more expensive, CFC-free appliances and aerosols, do you really believe we would have made any significant progress regarding ozone depletion?
After seeing how this channel promotes no scientific information and they are actually a propaganda machine financed by billionaires, I lost all trust and figured out that all the information they spread is horribly false.
That slavery ratio of the first one sounds like the Spartans with the Helots. From slavery to animal husbandry to bridge building, ants are genuinely incredible.
I'll never forget being a kid and my dad showing me an ant colony herding and farming aphids on some garden plants. What a wildly complex behavior for creatures that should seemingly be so simple.
@Fandom guy I see what you're saying, but I think we might have different perspectives on this.
As you say, the cells in our bodies and brains are able to perform much more complex tasks than single-cell organisms.
I would argue that the same difference of complexity exists between our brain cells and fully formed humans who are part of a collective.
It's reasonable to assume that each person would still be able to perform as varied tasks as we do today, and not just modify connections, as you put it.
Our brains are fully integrated into physical bodies that they are (more or less) in control over, whereas a hivemind made up of a collective of humans is obviously not physically interconnected to that same degree.
The difference lies in communication.
Since humans today don't have access to direct brain-to-brain communication, a more rudimentary, artificial form of communication needs to exist for us to be able to function as a collective, i.e. language and memes, and a societal structure that is organised the way we mostly see today.
A degree of separation, if you will.
But a hivemind *would* have that access to direct communication without that degree of separation, so it's reasonable to assume that the need for language, memes and social hierarchy would become less and less necessary, as the collective learns to utilise its parts without these abstractions.
And I would argue that a hirerarchy-less hivemind would be more efficient (and more ethical), as any part of the collective can adapt to perform any task at any time, due to the collective knowledge and direct communication with the hivemind.
(And related to this point, since you brought it up: the borg queen is a hotly contested topic among ST fans, as many people (myself included) think it is entirely unnecessary and straight up antithetical to what the borg were conceived to be when they were introduced, and only exists as a focal point that the characters can defeat; when the point of the borg was that there isn't any one focal point, as any part of the borg collective is as much of a threat as any other part of it, so you can't just beat up one special one and call it a day, you have to get creative and use different strategies when dealing with the borg)
@*Steel Beam* Our individual neurons are just cells following chemical signals after all, so in a way, the entire colony has a mind.
@Fandom guy Ill give you one tho.
You're goddamn amazing.
The stuff you wrote made me get chills haha.
Id really like explore more of this topic
@Fandom guy ah I see thanks for sharing :D
@syaondri Yep.
Hobbyist, I love this stuff & set out to learn a lot about this amazing universe!
Can you do trapjaw ants or wood ants?
When anteaters came, these fearsome ants would be doomed
when you play the game of ants, you win, or you die.
I'm sorry, you're telling me ants have invented slavery?
Ants are like factions in Warhammer 40k. No one can overpower the other ones but they are still fighting
@Skem OOF
in the grim darkness of farmers Gilbert's garden peace love and prosperity has been replaced by war slavery and pesticides
Here to spread the blessings of Tzeentch.
@Xcrysis I think what they meant is that we could eradicate entire colonies really quickly if we wanted to. That much is absolutely true. If you get the chance, look into what happens if you pour liquid aluminum into an anthill, it's really neat in macabre way.
Could we wipe out all ants? Only if we want to wipe ourselves out with them, and even then it's far from a guarantee.
I don't think humans are capable of eradicating ants, except if you managed to convince the whole global community to make ants enemy number 1 or something
"You better get back to the cotton field boy!"
-Some random polyergus ant
Love these vids!
You guys still need to make the intro say "in a nutshell" at the end of the jingle
If one takes into account collective intelligence ants are the second most intelligent creatures after human in the animal kingdom. Individually they may be dumb but as an organisation their complexity rivals even humans!
Hive minds are quite amazing, arn't they
This recent ants series that kurzgesagt has been making is so wonderful. It made me realize that there are so many more organisms with such complex societies and life, other than just humans. I hope they keep on making more of such videos.❤❤
@kyphosisboth ants and humans are giga chads
@kyphosis XD humans have yet to go into space we just peeked out the window and it was all black XD. Some day maybe if we last that long.
@Grillo only they are tiny, and have not gone to space like Chad humans
@Grillo interesting
@Grillo now that you say it that way 🤔
I was walking in my park with my friends when I saw a red ant come near a big black ant. The black ant was actually bigger than the red one, it was like a human met an elephant. When they came near, the black one touched the antennas of the red one then violently killed it. I felt bad for the red ant and squished the black ant.
That was unfair. it was fair combat for them
"nature is pure and inherently good"
WE NEED AN ANT STRATEGY GAME!!!
If only the video started as "Everything changed when the fire ants attacked."
that single queen solo raiding a whole colony is the true definition of badassery
@Enermax Stephensbro. People are Just tryin to have fun Goddamn
@Eleyvie Yeah so it's more like "desperate gamble" lol. Not "badass". These people are so easily impressed
@Enermax Stephens I would expect her to get ripped not sometimes but most of the time actually, otherwise the slaver ants would've conquered the world long ago.
@Anonymous_Random_Guy lmao
Except that sometimes she gets ripped to pieces by the colony's ants lol
if you guys wrote a book on this id buy it
Excellent informative video
From the New World was a fascinating anime that utilized this concept, though I think with mole rats instead