These slo-mo shots actually help a lot. Things happen so fast in the small insect world, that it's often hard to tell exactly what's happening, even if you're staring right at it. The slight slo-mo really adds some weight to the movement and gives you a better feeling of what's going down from the insect's point of view. ...Probably.
Do you really think insects are their own kingdom? They're animals, they're in the animal kingdom. And they're considered a class. But taxonomic ranks are arbitrary.
Yeah, humans tend to think everything else is beneath them and incapable of anything higher than basic thought. While ants may not have the same type of emotions that we do, any living creature can understand when their life is in danger. Stands to reason that if they escape said danger somehow, they'd be like "Oh shit, let's not do that again..."
@@catisreckless4647 flies are living creatures and yet every time i miss and dont swat them on my window, they fly away then fly back on the window until i successfully kill it on that same window the 5th time around... so beg to differ.. flies the living creatures are purely retarded
@@IvanMana Wow, ONE REFERENCE POINT, out of lilterally BILLIONS of lifeforms on the planet. And then you hearted your own comment!! WOW, WAY TO PUT ME IN MY PLACE. Thanks for wasting my time.
no no, he’s got a point, some animals might as well be plants for how stupid they are, but indeed a lot of animals are highly under appreciated by a lot of humans. Ants are indeed quite intelligent, and even use the same method to survive that humans do: cooperating.
@@thevineyard7149 No such thing as 70 degrees Celsius sun. I meant the sand. Ambient air temp is probably in the 50s. According to the narrator, though, sand temp is 70 degrees Celsius.
@@TheSicknO it seems really impractical to spend money to build a large set, get a much of antlions, wait for them to build nests, get a bunch of ants and then wait for them to catch an ant to get a 2 minute shot in what is probably a hour long documentary.
Nonsense! We need mumble narration and mumble sports commentary. Why should rappers be the only ones who get paid for mumbling? I want mumbling talk show hosts and mumbling during commercials.
Ma friends, please, a round of applauds for the the music and sound design/editing in this, is just... I can't even. The structure, the quality, the texture the whole construction of it. This shit is on a whole other level, BRAVO to whoever worked their asses off for this. Definitely appreciate it, made my day.
When I was young my Grandpa watched Nat Geo all the time, now I know why. I just wish he was alive to see this magnificent new age of filming the life on this planet. I'll watch this over any other programming, anytime!
@@BelleRiverHeating this is the sweetest reply I ever got to a comment my dude. Glad to see how time just goes between us, between generations, passing the love we carry. Through this, i like to think that we never truelly die. The love we carry is what remains of us. So love the things you love my friend, because in this proposed model, it is what defines us.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 You mean the ones they recorded with a potato? Grainy out of focus videos? Yeah, I get it, but you don't. I'm talking about the high def, slow mo zoomed in 3X shit you just watched.
@@CB-xr1eg A special attack refers to a video game move that is typically done when it seems like the regular one isn't going to work. Do you typically totally miss references to fun things?
I had these little pits in my yard when I was a kid. I don't remember how I found out you could feed ants to them, but after that, I started treating them as my pets, and I would give them ants to eat. I spent months feeding them, and watching the number of little pits in the yard increase. After that, I spent more months trying to dig them up to see what they looked like. I think I've always known I wanted to be a researcher. Even as a child I could spend months doing what others would be bored of in a day.
At a loss for words how absolutely beautiful our world is. How everything just fits together perfectly. Thanks for this footage. That was very interesting.
Being that Sir David Attenborough has been an natural scientist/anthropologist for 60+ years (he is almost 93, and still working ... ), I can well imagine that would work pretty well ...
@@nigelft Wow I didn't know he was that old. I googled it and you're right he'll be 93 on May 8th. He is definitely one of the best narrators there's ever been.
“With venom filled pincers” Ant Lion: *Proceeds to slam the ant around instead* 2 year edit: This comment was made for laughs, y’all in the comments need to chilled with your arguments.
can we take a moment to talk about how fantastic the camera is? the individual grains of sand look incredibly clear even though cameras tend to lose quality when zoomed in.
I knew ants were intelligent, but that was a very human-like reaction at the end! Taking a moment to look back at the pit, like it was processing the fact that it almost died. Can insects suffer from mental trauma?
You can actually train some bugs/arthropods to follow a simple command, like with jumping spiders, which you can teach to wave to you with its front legs or pedipalps and teach them that you’re not a foe. Maybe not as complex as a mammal but still really impressive if you think about it!
Jor242 exactly, I love it when it’s my moms family’s Christmas because we have the house loaded with everything and I just sneak down and grab something but it’s hell when u get caught
Namib desert lizard: "Looks like it's going to be a really hot day again, just like every freaking other day here!". Licks his own eye nervously, then digs himself back in. A muffled but distinct "Goddamnit!" is heard from under the sand.
these desert sands are like our beach sands. granulated, not powdered, and you can see it's particles with naked eye. never gets muddy, and we can pitch a tent in the beach without stucking in the mud even when it's rainy.
the incredible work of this video that no one notice is the sound design, all the sounds are recreated, can´t imagine they filmed this macro with real sound. The images are stunning as well.
Ive never seen a better video from BBC or any outlet, ever. This is literally the ABSOLUTE most put together top notch production for education I've ever seen.
Some of them don't make it out of the death cone. Then the larva eats. Rinse, repeat. It's how ambush predators do. This type of hunting is so efficient that most predators are ambush predators, very few would actually chase their prey.
In my experience a group of ant lion larvae will normally build pits surrounding ant hills, also I've never seen them grab the ant and fling them around. They always seem to grab the ant and drag it back underground to finish the job
ikr? but at least the Sarlacc Pit doesn't throw boulders at you and bash your skull into the ground to help it's venom knock you out faster... 'Ol George Lucas should've been more direct with making his alien ant-lion monster; could've been a *lot* more horrifying imo
The filming, the sound effects, camera quality, narration of Attenborough. BBC you have done it. You guys need to know how many folks actually admire this work. Absolutely amazing!
As a kid, I used to love to take a small, thin twig and stick it into their pits. Upon doing so, I stir (in one direction) near the bottom in a circular motion. In short order the antlion will become exposed. Growing up on a rather large farm was wonderful.
never thought I'd be cheering and be on the edge of my seat for an ant's survival
Zhenyi Tsai You havent watched Bugs Life?
Totally agree with you, I don't even like ants but I was like "YAY it escaped"
Zhenyi Tsai I was so relieved he managed to escape!
Zhenyi Tsai : I was cheering for the ant lion...we need T-shirts for our respective teams!
Bumble Bunny Go team antlion!
That final look-back was priceless. Congrats to the cameraman on that shot!
TCPUDPATM PORTS lol ye 😝
Ant: that was some acid trip
@Robert Lee, Countertenor damit.... I was going to say it was staged.
@@Carl-LaFong1618 this is all cgi anyway
@@TheTruth61989 you can hear it😑🤔
Love how it looked back near the end
Lyrical Squirel aren't all ants blind?
Filthy_Casual LOLNO. They have compound eyes (I think) so they can see, except with 50 tiny eyeballs.
Seramic _Skeptical Am i confusing ants with termites?
Yeah you do
"Not today, sucker!"
He was beating his ass like he owed him money.
Lmao
WHERE'S MY MONEY, BRYAN?
Dinero
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
💀💀
That last “PHEW” at the end tho
@dank memer right
It's almost like you could feel it
that ant looked back and was like “Jesus...”
The ant looking back fits perfectly
True
I haven't admired sand as much as this video showed me.
JohnGaming220 I hear some people don’t like sand.
It’s coarse, and rough, and irritating.
And it gets everywhere.
@@caleblim6890 just like me
I can't stop woundering what would happen if Darth Vader saw this.
You aint lying lol
Not the sand the monsters in it,here’s your Darwin Award
2:17
I like how the music matches when the antlion smashing the ant
YOOOO He did that ant dirty
Nobody:
Also Antli0n: *plays the drums*
BBC quality
THE SUSPENSE
they made the music for this
These slo-mo shots actually help a lot. Things happen so fast in the small insect world, that it's often hard to tell exactly what's happening, even if you're staring right at it. The slight slo-mo really adds some weight to the movement and gives you a better feeling of what's going down from the insect's point of view. ...Probably.
It's true, most insects' vision has a higher 'refresh rate' than humans by quite a bit.
Do you really think insects are their own kingdom? They're animals, they're in the animal kingdom. And they're considered a class. But taxonomic ranks are arbitrary.
@@magentamonster I wasn't using the word "kingdom" in the scientific sense, but I went ahead and fixed it for you. Have a lovely day.
i like how the ant turned around for a second in the end and was like:
*"Is that all you got?"*
More like a "that was close"
LOLL
He is a survivor.
what a great ant
He looked at the area itself so he knows to avoid it
tis but a scratch.
David Attenborough + ultra high quality BBC production. This deserves all of the likes.
That soundtrack is also A+!
rb driftin My friend would imitate Attenborough when we watched this and make us all laugh.
*Jovit Elijah Fernando* It's the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Jovit ___ because it wasnt a porn category when it was founded
Jovit ___ because it's funded by the British government. Hence the British Broadcasting Company.
America has ABC Canada has CBC etc.
3:23 he really looked like "that was close..........."
Yeah, humans tend to think everything else is beneath them and incapable of anything higher than basic thought. While ants may not have the same type of emotions that we do, any living creature can understand when their life is in danger. Stands to reason that if they escape said danger somehow, they'd be like "Oh shit, let's not do that again..."
@@catisreckless4647 flies are living creatures and yet every time i miss and dont swat them on my window, they fly away then fly back on the window until i successfully kill it on that same window the 5th time around... so beg to differ.. flies the living creatures are purely retarded
@@IvanMana Wow, ONE REFERENCE POINT, out of lilterally BILLIONS of lifeforms on the planet. And then you hearted your own comment!! WOW, WAY TO PUT ME IN MY PLACE. Thanks for wasting my time.
no no, he’s got a point,
some animals might as well be plants for how stupid they are, but indeed a lot of animals are highly under appreciated by a lot of humans. Ants are indeed quite intelligent, and even use the same method to survive that humans do: cooperating.
more like, "Holy shit! I almost died... again."
so we aren't talking about how this camera can pick up literal grains of sand with perfect, crystal clear quality? alright.
Probably costs millions for a camera like that
@@ionlystatefacts4474 not millions.. prob just thousands
100 thousand
It is called focus
@@michelangelo_B Arrakis is Arrakis, and the desert takes the weak (in this case Ants).
Ant looks back and be like "I'll be back motherf!cker, with a few friends.."
they might get traped
No mate they will create a ladder out of their own bodies
@@MrBendybruce um that's the thing ant lions create a trap to make sure there prey never escape
Are you seriously trying to argue of what was ostensibly a joke?!? Go find a hobby or something for gods sake.
@@MrBendybruce I'm the closest thing to an internet scientist and also a troll so ha ha😛
It's amazing how hard ants work!
Scary Nature it's amazing how you... can speak right to my heart
hahha
If only my co-workers worked half as hard
Damoncorp are they black?
Millenials should take note
Scary Nature i think that too every type of ant works hard every day
3:10 this scene is so cinematic that it could actually be a movie
ikr
Watch the movie, Tremors, with Kevin Bacon.
yay! I'm so happy for the little guy! 🙂👍
Darkknight rises that escape scene.
@@krishnamohanm8569 lol it's exactly like that
The team who worked to produce this masterpiece deserve a standing ovation. Lets not forget they did all that standing on a 70 degrees sand.
Did you mean 70 degrees Celsius sun or sand?
@@thevineyard7149 No such thing as 70 degrees Celsius sun. I meant the sand.
Ambient air temp is probably in the 50s. According to the narrator, though, sand temp is 70 degrees Celsius.
@@mohammedomer3798 they were probably dripping planets trying to record the ants
@@mohammedomer3798 This clips are almost always made in a studio....
@@TheSicknO it seems really impractical to spend money to build a large set, get a much of antlions, wait for them to build nests, get a bunch of ants and then wait for them to catch an ant to get a 2 minute shot in what is probably a hour long documentary.
This guy is the best narrator ever, love his voice and accent!
Nonsense! We need mumble narration and mumble sports commentary. Why should rappers be the only ones who get paid for mumbling? I want mumbling talk show hosts and mumbling during commercials.
OY GOV. CHERIO!
señor pepper said no Brit. Ever.
@@doctorwhat9218 sherlock holmes day 18th century London. maybe its Hollywoods version. but its what some of us think when we hear brits
@@senorpepper3405 You mean late 19th century London. That would be Victorian times. 18th century was Georgian-totally different
Dude... They put more sound quality in this than the current AAA games.
Risky Feat lmao ur one of those TTV nerds that leave a game immediately when you get downed in a BR game
@@Dimynd Nice
@@Dimynd nah hes probably got too many braincells to want to play a BR game unlike some.
Perfection I like your Pain pic
@@Dimynd lol anime profile pic
That dude looked back and was like “you not gonna get the chance, STOOOOOPID” 😂
Ant..." Shit that was close, better run and tell the others..HEY GUYS, GUESS WHAT...?"
2:44
Lol 😄
yeah its almost like its "CGI"
Paid actors
Ma friends, please, a round of applauds for the the music and sound design/editing in this, is just... I can't even. The structure, the quality, the texture the whole construction of it. This shit is on a whole other level, BRAVO to whoever worked their asses off for this. Definitely appreciate it, made my day.
When I was young my Grandpa watched Nat Geo all the time, now I know why. I just wish he was alive to see this magnificent new age of filming the life on this planet. I'll watch this over any other programming, anytime!
@@BelleRiverHeating this is the sweetest reply I ever got to a comment my dude. Glad to see how time just goes between us, between generations, passing the love we carry. Through this, i like to think that we never truelly die. The love we carry is what remains of us. So love the things you love my friend, because in this proposed model, it is what defines us.
where is Antman when you need him. lol
@@BelleRiverHeating BBC has been making docus like this, in this fashion, for over 30 years now. It's Attenborough's way.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 You mean the ones they recorded with a potato? Grainy out of focus videos? Yeah, I get it, but you don't. I'm talking about the high def, slow mo zoomed in 3X shit you just watched.
I was like "c'mon little ant u can do it."
No replies? Here, have mine..
no replies? here have mine
Luke Skywalker u copied
U copied
GET AWAY FROM THE SARLAC PIT!
Each grain of sand looks like a finely polished marble.
Seldin Gardane the camera 👌🏼💯
Ikr
Thats what really catched my eye.
Sand is pretty cool. No idea why Anakin hates it so much.
End of the World (Joke killer here.) Because he was a slave in desert?
Then he should hate slavery. Ya dont see Moses run around insulting the sand grains.
3:03 this ant has determination something I don’t have
When your life is on the line you can do some pretty weird things fr
it shows us that if an ant can escape an ant lion you can ecape a human lion
and that spirit boys, is crucial for survival
@@EpicHylje can you make me a death trap that focuses on japanese lesson
For the queen
I legitimately never knew that antlions would SLAM their prey into submission like that. That's horrific and amazing.
And that whole avalanche idea, those guys know what they're doing.
@@TonyEnglandUK They seem like damn sci fi monsters.
I really love how the antlion flings sand around. Like a special attack, or something.
@@CB-xr1eg A special attack refers to a video game move that is typically done when it seems like the regular one isn't going to work. Do you typically totally miss references to fun things?
Because it is a special attack you fucking moron
CMOT101 dude, why are you so triggered? Did his comment really piss you off that much?
@@CB-xr1eg STFU BOOMER
Didn't get the reference so he just throws shit around in his indignant nerd rage. What a rotten old man, lmao.
this video is more dramatic than so many movies out there.
Damn the cinematography is on point.
Rahul Loves'ThePayne have you seen the video of the lizard running from snakes? that's real drama 😰 BBC courtesy of course.
Eduardo Kuk Ojeda yeah , I think it was even nominated for an Emmy 😹 damn that snake squad was large.
My mum: "why don't you go play with the neighbour's kid?"
The neighbour's kid: 0:09
😂😂😂
lmaooo
Me: Nope Nope Nope Nope
You have a problem with me licking my own eyes?
Lol
I had these little pits in my yard when I was a kid. I don't remember how I found out you could feed ants to them, but after that, I started treating them as my pets, and I would give them ants to eat. I spent months feeding them, and watching the number of little pits in the yard increase. After that, I spent more months trying to dig them up to see what they looked like. I think I've always known I wanted to be a researcher. Even as a child I could spend months doing what others would be bored of in a day.
how are you? have you become a reseacher ?
We are literally the same.
im glad i wasnt the only little executioner as a kid sentencing ants to death in my grandmas back yard XD
Lol ah a fellow ant executioner
@@urekmazino6800 When you find a giant fkin spiderweb "Time to go find an ant!"
3:23
*looks back at the demon*
“Bye loser”
OMG I died when the ant did that lmao honestly didn't expect a bug to have such a human-like reaction! But it's more like "PHEW that was close"
Ant is dead the next day because antlion's pincers have venom.
Rue Leonheart at least it died freely roaming around as opposed to eaten
@@rueleonheart2467 Lmao what an anticlimax
😂
I was so relieved when I saw lil homie make it out alive.
The fangs are venomous.
That scene was unexpectedly tense, like a tiny action movie cliffhanger
I love how it looks back after escaping
Sign of some intelligence, and that even the smallest individuals of planet Earth, are too not robots.
Heh pathetic fool
It's called CGI
@@hilltop565 it's not called CGI, it's called life. If you go to school and get a good job maybe someday you can see the world too.
At a loss for words how absolutely beautiful our world is. How everything just fits together perfectly. Thanks for this footage. That was very interesting.
Its staged
It's beautiful but even more terrifying. That ant could have been you 1000 years ago and that ant lion could be a bear ripping your guts out.
I can’t believe how that ant looked back. Amazing photo/videography!
It's all animation dude
The ants are paid actors
lolool
I said same thing lol
The sounds are created by foley artists which is a profession of creating audio from everyday items and putting it into movies and series
They need to have this guy narrate a documentary on People of Walmart
That would be so money!
Being that Sir David Attenborough has been an natural scientist/anthropologist for 60+ years (he is almost 93, and still working ... ), I can well imagine that would work pretty well ...
@@nigelft Wow I didn't know he was that old. I googled it and you're right he'll be 93 on May 8th. He is definitely one of the best narrators there's ever been.
"this guy" lol imagine not knowing Sir David Attenborough
No, people at McDonald's
“With venom filled pincers”
Ant Lion: *Proceeds to slam the ant around instead*
2 year edit: This comment was made for laughs, y’all in the comments need to chilled with your arguments.
classic terminator move
😂🤣
suplex city bro
It's probably to get the ant worked up. The more you move, the faster your heart rate, which means the poison/venom moving through your body faster.
😂🤣
I have BBC Earth binges once in a while,and they make me love my world even more , everytime.
Ant:”chilling peacefully”
Narrator: here we have this ant
Ant: *Why do I hear boss music?*
Choco Chocolate 😂😂
Narrator: If the ant stands still, it'll die.
Ant: Wait what?
iNathanLite u called me?
Wait What?? Ahaha lol
@@Captain_Pricey XD WOW
Me: Cheering for the ant’s survival
Young me: *Massacres hundreds of those little things*
Totally me
Same
@@yout1411 @@
I used a magnifying glass ....
@@W0lfSh1eld Wow, am I the only one that was educated by his parents? The fuck was wrong with all of you fuckers?
"Mission Failed We'll Get'em Next Time"
Big Smoke STAY AWAY FROM MY NUMBER NINES ESPECIALLY THE LARGE ONES!!
Big Smoke So did you catch that train
All you had to do was catch the damn ant C.J.!!!!!!!
I'll have two number nines....
+Jaydon Antoine a number 9 large..
can we take a moment to talk about how fantastic the camera is? the individual grains of sand look incredibly clear even though cameras tend to lose quality when zoomed in.
"cAn wE tAkE a MoMeNt...." can you take a moment to shut the hell up?
@@michaelcohen9363 there’s the right side of the bed, the wrong side of the bed, then there’s whatever side you woke up on
3:20 that look back ..
I felt that
**looks back** *Bitch* **continues forward**
yousef hadi lmaoooo
Lol the whole time the ants were walking I was imagining them saying "Oww hot, hot, hot"
Lol
Me too 🤣🔥
Hahaha
Ye
*"Ah thats hot, thats hot"*
Can just imagine them saying "OOOO HAWT HOT HAWT HOT "
HOOOTHAW HAWT "Randy would you like to come inside out of the sun?" "Nah Sharon... Just foraging for bugs with the guys.. hhhoOOOT HOT HOT"
Ahhhhh thats hot, thats hot....
I knew ants were intelligent, but that was a very human-like reaction at the end! Taking a moment to look back at the pit, like it was processing the fact that it almost died. Can insects suffer from mental trauma?
this particular ant almost certainly does
They do
Likely they do not. An insect's nervous system is much less complex compared to larger animals. They are more akin to biological machines.
But it can probably learn to not go near the traps again.
You can actually train some bugs/arthropods to follow a simple command, like with jumping spiders, which you can teach to wave to you with its front legs or pedipalps and teach them that you’re not a foe. Maybe not as complex as a mammal but still really impressive if you think about it!
Me running into my room when guests come over
0:15
If your too slow u have to greet the guests
relatable
relatable
Jor242 exactly, I love it when it’s my moms family’s Christmas because we have the house loaded with everything and I just sneak down and grab something but it’s hell when u get caught
Ah couldn’t agree more
Woow salute to a videographer
Sujit Maharjan For enduring the scorching heat and going places where humans are too frightened to go.
Rip videographer
The fact they made an ant just climbing sand look so dramatic and intense is great
I think its so cool how in the close ups you can see each individual tiny rock that makes up the sand
I was literally yelling for the the ant to hurry and escape like “GOGOGOGO RUN PLEASE GET OUT OF THERE CLIMB FASTER”
Me too. My family thought I was watching a movie
The way it looked back once it escaped 😩 it was like “goddd DAMN that was close 😖”
😭😭😭
No he was you ..... i will come back with my herd for retaliation retribution or the thing that doesnt kill you makes you stronger
Your comment made me die of cringe
😂😂😂
“I live another day”
Ant: * enters pit *
Antlion: "You picked the wrong house fool!"
Didn’t laugh.
@Robbie Presley cool but where is the bus filled with the people that asked?
_"So you have chosen death"_
*101th like*
Dead meme not funny
That moment the ant looked back having escaped: CLASSIC.
Namib desert lizard: "Looks like it's going to be a really hot day again, just like every freaking other day here!".
Licks his own eye nervously, then digs himself back in. A muffled but distinct "Goddamnit!" is heard from under the sand.
*ant escapes*
*camera pans over two feet*
*ant falls into another trap*
Me at school
Curb your enthusiasm plays
Playing E.T. on the Atari 2600 was basically that.
Total anus of a game.
1:59 Ant Lion: "WHERE'S MY MONEY?!"
*When you dont pay your tax*
*_NOT STONKS_* ↘️
You'll get your rent when you fix that damn -door- cone pit
When you can literally see every grain of sand
these desert sands are like our beach sands. granulated, not powdered, and you can see it's particles with naked eye. never gets muddy, and we can pitch a tent in the beach without stucking in the mud even when it's rainy.
Antlions are small, about half an inch
the incredible work of this video that no one notice is the sound design, all the sounds are recreated, can´t imagine they filmed this macro with real sound. The images are stunning as well.
2:56 *_GOTTA GO FAST!_*
Go go go go go go go go gotta go fast XD
*g a s g a s g a s*
Sanic music in the background...
Pretty much me when i get off from work.
Fast as fcuk boii
3:21 yeaaaaah! Not today fool!
The way he looked back made me smile. 😊👍😎
He was like what divoc (covid) speel backwards but what divoc is going onnnn
That’s how I looked at my kids before going out for my last pack of cigarette’s.
"He"??
I was hearing the Rocky theme song while the ant was climbing up the hill. I've haven't rooted for an ant so much since "Antman."
RIP Antony
"I'm gonna you 'Ant' ontio Banderas because your such a bad ass"
Wow grounded devs made an amazing job recreating their hunting strategy and also informing people of these majestic creatures.
That predator was like ' u ant goin anywhere'
Jonathan Woodruff you didn't got the joke, didn't you?
Sniper Ghost admiralFeels
Jonathan Woodruff you didn't get that? I was joking too.
Jesus, it's so cringy when you have to explain the joke...
[A]
"I got you for threeeee minutes of... PLAYTIME"
WWE: Please don't try this at home
Me and my Cousins: 2:15
YMN PEDRO lmaooo this got me
😂
Hahahaha
Best comment
Suplex city
2:52 this scene was better than the entire boba fett death sequence
Boy do I have news for you....
😝🤣 Boba Lucas
Eeww it's one of those nasty Disney drones.
Turns out Boba Fett was actually one of those ants that escaped, lol.
Ive never seen a better video from BBC or any outlet, ever. This is literally the ABSOLUTE most put together top notch production for education I've ever seen.
1:31 my guy just skrt skrted outta there
Its a car for an ant :)
It costs 99 cents
Dejavu
1:58
Dear God! Poor Laszlo! The finest mind of his generation, come to such an end!
Time dr freeman?
Haha nice i got the reference
Stay off the sand! It makes the antlions crazy!
but without laszlo whats the point
1:32 - That ant has super powers or something
Miles Graham I thought I was the only person who noticed that
Ant superpower. This class is pretty op with it's long legs and imensive strength.
@@Jakubkolo2000 Wait is this a Tierzoo reference?
@@strixfire560 It's a motherfcking Tier zoo reference
@@Jakubkolo2000 yeah that's what I thought. I frickin am obsessed with TierZoo.
It’s just amazing how the ant escaped. No matter how hard you fight or hunt nature doesn’t always have a fair result
Imagine creating then waiting hours in the pit you made in one position every day only to slam them a few times before they peace out
Gosh that would be a loooong wait
Some of them don't make it out of the death cone. Then the larva eats. Rinse, repeat.
It's how ambush predators do. This type of hunting is so efficient that most predators are ambush predators, very few would actually chase their prey.
In my experience a group of ant lion larvae will normally build pits surrounding ant hills, also I've never seen them grab the ant and fling them around. They always seem to grab the ant and drag it back underground to finish the job
Me hiding from my responsibilities: 0:17
Im a fan XD
me hiding from tests at school
OwO what's this?!
@Dylan Vu can’t tell if your homophobic
That's me rn, watching inscet documentaries instead of doing my homework 😔😫lool
Ants running across sand: "HOT HOT HOT HOT"
Made me lol
Those Antlions were chucking the ants around like they were tiny Brock Lesnars
The ending had me on edge more than any movie ever could
Throned lol yes
Throned That is because in a movie, you know there will be a happy ending.
Tatooine
Invincible Nightmare I don]t' like sand, its coarse, rough, and it gets everywhere.
That joke is worse than my SON!!!!
ikr? but at least the Sarlacc Pit doesn't throw boulders at you and bash your skull into the ground to help it's venom knock you out faster...
'Ol George Lucas should've been more direct with making his alien ant-lion monster; could've been a *lot* more horrifying imo
Bearz
then don't go to the desert, simple
Lord Vader does not aprove this.
0:45 him scratching himself looks so satisfying
Haha it's cute, it's like my cat who does that
I thought of it as stretching going "Ahh, what a hot day as always!"
She* all ants are female except for males, who live 2 weeks at most and only live to breed
the way the last ant looked back before walking away with relief.
3:01 That is like frodo trying to reach the top of mount doom to destroy the one ring
😂😂😂
Ant: me
Antlion: school
@Ahmad Haafizh Shahrizan *True indeed!*
Sarlac pit scaled down.
That's what I'm seeing man
Correction: ant lion pit scaled up to sarlac
Sarlac pit would be the Sand Striker ^^
Reminds me of the Sims Ant game.
It's where the idea came from…
Les réalisateurs de ces minis reportages arrivent à en faire de véritables films à suspense et avec une qualité d'image extraordinaire ! Bravo !
2:18 the way the ant being smashed synchronizes with the music is amazing
Hardcore!!
awesomeassholeLOL BBC has its own music so it was probs specific for that part
When the ant was getting out who else was cheering 🤣😂👌👌
Now the antlion will be hungry. It might starve to death. :-(
@@murrfeeling fck antlions ants are better
murrfeeling I was
Porkechop be vegan
@@murrfeeling he is ugly 😂 ant is cuter
Narrator: escape seems impossible
-ant escapes
Antlion: Am I a joke to you?
SEEMS impossible.
*Sir David Attenborough
mission failed well get them next time
The filming, the sound effects, camera quality, narration of Attenborough. BBC you have done it. You guys need to know how many folks actually admire this work. Absolutely amazing!
The ant looked back like "what the hell just happened?" 😂😂
shyshotcaller27 LOL!... like...Yikes!
BBC has the best quality animal videos
Seaf Halabi in the WORLD!!!!
Ants are not animals
They are mushrooms
Its so good you cant help wonder if everything is real and not manipulated in anyway :o
Seaf Halabi
Same thing can't be said about their news
THIS GAVE ME SUCH ANXIETY
You mean, ANTXIETY?
MAGA
As a kid, I used to love to take a small, thin twig and stick it into their pits. Upon doing so, I stir (in one direction) near the bottom in a circular motion. In short order the antlion will become exposed. Growing up on a rather large farm was wonderful.
2:18 getting slammed to the music makes it more effective
editing on point
So true
Antion's like, W h a c
I love how the ant looks back like “is he following me?” 😂
Edit: OMG THANKS FOR ALL THE LIKES I HAVE NEVER IN MY ENTIRE LIFE HAD THIS MANY LIKES! 😱
cutest thing i’ve ever seen LMAO
XR
XD
More like, whadafuk was that?!?!?!
Matthew Bellette YES LOL 😂
2:40
“BRING DAT ASS, HEA BOIII!!!”
*LMAO*
Isn’t that from Memeulous’ video on EliSoCray
The fact that I heard it in DC's voice 😂
Stranger danger!! Stranger danger!!
Is he gay or somethin???
3:14 And then there's me yelling "COME ON! COME ON!"
*Teacher*: “What did you do on the weekend jimmy?”
*Jimmy*: “Watched an ant get slammed on the ground”
Jimmy: "Ummm... Educational videos?"
But it's interesting
yep
That avalanche technique is amazing!!
Jason McCann that's what I thought
Sand style: DESSERT AVALANCHE TECHNIQUE!!
Kuishinbo TG:root iS tHaT a JoJo ReFeReNcE?
The last ant is a tough guy.
He kept struggling until he climbed out of pit and went on his way.
The final look from the ant at the end ! Incredible seemingly human characteristics haha
Im suppose you be searching how to fix a garage door opener, but ended up here. No wonder my wife yells at me for never getting anything done
This is part of the research. Haha
Me too!, mine when I try to close it, it starts to close down, but it goes back half way through. whats wrong with yours?
"Have you figured out how to fix the garage door yet?"
"I'm thinking something with antlions."
You end up fixing it
Tell your wife to mind her gotdamn business
0:20 when you see your bed after school
The Fury lol
The Fury lmao
The Fury u are a legend
True
DaEpikTrolle lmao
I wasnt expecting him to just get body slammed constantly like that 😅😂😂 2:01
Andrew Davenport ikr I was WHEEZING
Andrew Davenport right? I felt it is like in real life you would get a huge headache lol
I got so happy when the ant escaped and WHEN IT LOOKED BACK LIKE "damn. I nearly died."