I personally found this video to be fantastic. It was interesting and filled with just enough personal touches, comments on their adventures while researching or reactions of people or other animals, to keep it warm and not overly academic in tone. Thank you.
That was awesome! The best most interesting video I've ever seen on ants. I will watch it again. I have to cuz its jam packed full of information and amazing videography. Just Fabulous! Oh, and the narrator has a pleasant voice.
It’s interesting the likeness of the South American “Army Ants” to those of their brethren in Africa, the Dorylus. Better known as Driver Ants, Safari Ants or Saifu. Both will go out “hunting” in huge swarms and render the population of invertebrates, et al, to almost zero. And both will make other animals flee at their approach. Both are nomadic to a point too. But there are subtle differences too. Driver Ant workers are totally blind.Not even a sign of a vestigial eye. Driver Ants, even though they have the capability to sting, will rarely use it and just rely on their very powerful mandibles to tear anything they capture apart. This even includes small mammals that are unable to evade and get caught in the driver Ant’s huge swarms. And when I mean huge, where the South American Army Ants nests are up to a million at most, a Driver Ant nest can number 30 million. As mentioned above, with the Army Ants, they rarely use large pieces of dismembered “booty” as food and generally discard it once taken back to the nest preferring to “eat” small food stuff such as larvae. But with the Driver Ants, they have the capability with their powerful mandibles, to totally dismember large invertebrates, small reptiles and even small mammals as food to take back to their nests. And like the Army Ants, when Driver Ant swarms in East Africa enter a village and its surrounding fields, they are welcomed as they’ll remove crop pests and other invertebrates that humans are not keen on. It’s free pest control on a massive scale. Though the Africans do remove livestock such as chickens etcetera from the Driver Ant swarms for their own protection. This is a fascinating video and gives a huge insight into the whole ecological system that surrounds the Army Ants.
I'm a 3rd the way through, great video. It would be cool to do a doc. on the column raider Eciton. Specifically E. hamatum or E. rapax. Studying the attacks on other social insects would be very interesting.
From the beginning, if insects were the size of man there would be no human race! I can't imagine humans throwing sticks and stones at a rampaging army of ants or dive bombing hornets. The invention of the wheel would not have helped us at all to say the least... lol. Great work in putting together these battles!
I'm very confused about some of the taxonomy. Jaguars are Panthera onca, and I have seen nothing in any documentation about them being associated with Tigris in any way, because Panthera tigris is the species for the tiger. I can't even find something historic that suggests a Tigris genus that the jaguar belonged to 🤔
As interesting as this is there seems to be some evidence that contradicts evidence of other studies. This does not mean either study is mistaken in their findings rather it means there must be further study to find out why, if both are accurate, the contradictions exist.
The Amazon is NOT a “green hell”. The Amazon is not usually dangerous. The Amazon cats rarely attack humans. The Amazon is fascinating at night. The documentary reflects a very old mindset.
U know I've never seen a site as sad as wen my tetramorium queen ant died cause I maybe interfered with an adoption process(simply the queen was not allowed to care 4 the brewd from the super colony so the worker attached itself to the queens antenni n umm yea interference so I put the test tube by the super colonies entrance in my house with the dead queen n she had 2 n 1 died cause of the adoption well they carried the queen out m gave her a formal burial I hope but her baby wouldn't leave the tube till some new brother tetramorium came out n now her baby is with the super colony n hope in gud social order
Theres gotta b more than 1 queen so I think maybe it's because the brewd wasnt hers idk but would love to study if possable the social order of a super colony
How can anyone with a functioning brain look at the close up scan of the ants antennae at 7:30, and conclude that it is the result of evolution? Every part of the ants antennae is specifically designed for what it does! You don’t develop all those sense organs by random genetic mutations, only a fool could think so! To think that these ants have continuously survived for millions of years is preposterous! How would a species of ant be able to evolve different types of ant, as in soldier ants with huge jaws, versus the worker ants with smaller jaws? How would ants evolve to survive by laying 100,000 eggs at a time, just to move them all over the next 3 weeks and start the process over again? These insects were created like this!
29.37 you lied something little. First Ants it's not blind . Fact it's that how we see is little funny... We see gold signature of enemies. This is not we are blind. Nope soldier see's different not gold signature. But mixture signature. Welcome Ants colony's we looking always great bug's to anjoy afterlife
43:40..We have no evidence to show if this procedure will hurt the Queen or NOT??!! Let ME cut into you with sharp scissors to see if, YOU need evidence or NOT.. That it will HURT!! Like you didn't notice her leg's kicking hard?? The Documentary was good non-the-less.
This is what all nature documentaries should look like...I usually quit watching most of them within 2 mins., but this one leaves me wanting more.
I personally found this video to be fantastic. It was interesting and filled with just enough personal touches, comments on their adventures while researching or reactions of people or other animals, to keep it warm and not overly academic in tone. Thank you.
Possibly the best most in-depth doc i have ever seen on ants, particularly on army ants.thank u Dr.R. your hard work is appreciated.
Not even just ants. This is likely the most informative and detailed documentary i've ever seen.
Tips4Tat. But the ants are the stars in my opinion
Very, very true.
When it come to ants documentaries this one is by far the best
These army ants are just amazing insects
I agree best doc ever on ants
So great. I watch nature documentaries to go to sleep at night but this was so captivating I couldn’t sleep. So much good information.
Do u have any documentaries to recommend?
I say hats off to the fella who stuck his finger in the nest to prove the point
I like ants iv got 3 tipe in my yard
THANKS for posting....AWESOME AWESOME documentary,...So Packed with info I'll have to watch it several times to fully digest this.
Ants Canada is an amazing channel. I learned to love ants there. This video opened my eyes to army ants. I have never seen them before. Fascinating.
Ants are badass! The world would be a lot different if they were just an inch bigger.
this is the best army ant documentary i have ever seen 👍
That was awesome! The best most interesting video I've ever seen on ants. I will watch it again. I have to cuz its jam packed full of information and amazing videography. Just Fabulous! Oh, and the narrator has a pleasant voice.
This was an excellent documentary. Thanks for making it.
Amazing documentary! this is the real stuff.
It’s interesting the likeness of the South American “Army Ants” to those of their brethren in Africa, the Dorylus. Better known as Driver Ants, Safari Ants or Saifu.
Both will go out “hunting” in huge swarms and render the population of invertebrates, et al, to almost zero. And both will make other animals flee at their approach.
Both are nomadic to a point too.
But there are subtle differences too.
Driver Ant workers are totally blind.Not even a sign of a vestigial eye. Driver Ants, even though they have the capability to sting, will rarely use it and just rely on their very powerful mandibles to tear anything they capture apart. This even includes small mammals that are unable to evade and get caught in the driver Ant’s huge swarms. And when I mean huge, where the South American Army Ants nests are up to a million at most, a Driver Ant nest can number 30 million.
As mentioned above, with the Army Ants, they rarely use large pieces of dismembered “booty” as food and generally discard it once taken back to the nest preferring to “eat” small food stuff such as larvae. But with the Driver Ants, they have the capability with their powerful mandibles, to totally dismember large invertebrates, small reptiles and even small mammals as food to take back to their nests.
And like the Army Ants, when Driver Ant swarms in East Africa enter a village and its surrounding fields, they are welcomed as they’ll remove crop pests and other invertebrates that humans are not keen on. It’s free pest control on a massive scale. Though the Africans do remove livestock such as chickens etcetera from the Driver Ant swarms for their own protection.
This is a fascinating video and gives a huge insight into the whole ecological system that surrounds the Army Ants.
Thank you for keeping them small😊
I'm a 3rd the way through, great video.
It would be cool to do a doc. on the column raider Eciton. Specifically E. hamatum or E. rapax. Studying the attacks on other social insects would be very interesting.
they're talking about 2005 but haven't seen a bivouac floating?! but giving they're time, it's an awesome doc
That man poking his finger in the nest has balls (or skin) of steel
Or lost a bet
Ants-tonishing ants..
The bests of animal documentaries
Best documentaries on all of TH-cam- why are there only two? Please make or publish more!
carl died
Steam rises, that must kill every living thing in the forest. On the contrary, water vapor wouldn’t kill anything.
12:41 "a beetle occasionally runs through the bivouac."
Yes. Yes it did.
11:27 we casually mutilate 3 organisms to make a point
We do those close quarters are called the projects!!!!
From the beginning, if insects were the size of man there would be no human race! I can't imagine humans throwing sticks and stones at a rampaging army of ants or dive bombing hornets. The invention of the wheel would not have helped us at all to say the least... lol. Great work in putting together these battles!
It sounds like this guy burps after every thing he says .
Very good thank you
Great video, thank you so much
This one of the great docus. I wonder if they ever made that follow up vid about the mites.
That's pretty ANTstonishing to me.
I'm very confused about some of the taxonomy. Jaguars are Panthera onca, and I have seen nothing in any documentation about them being associated with Tigris in any way, because Panthera tigris is the species for the tiger. I can't even find something historic that suggests a Tigris genus that the jaguar belonged to 🤔
This was fascinating, really. But I never thought I'd ever hear the phrase "sexual larvae".
Very cool documentary. But the lizard shown when they mentioned the baby iguana was a green basilisk, not baby iguana.
Fascinating stuff !
nice docu nice narration ^^
0:09 I had my volume all the way up and then this came.
I can watch this day and night it is superb
For The SWARM!!!!
Amazing
Calodexia Tachinidae, seems like a Flesh Fly species @ 16:30 ish...
And 19:55 how ironic the Ant evolved from the Wasp
They said a chinese water dragon was a baby green iguana, so I wonder how much of this documentary is true
When an ant dies do the others say dead ant dead ant dead ant dead ant dead ant haaaaa
I downloaded this Thank you
Hello mother hello father. Here I am at camp Grenada
#AntsCanada should check this out lol
Astonishing Ants [ Fourmis étonnantes ]
So what do you do while the ants are raiding your house? Just remain very still?
you take your animals and leave probably
Why am I so depressed? I entertain my death daily
U ok bro?
As interesting as this is there seems to be some evidence that contradicts evidence of other studies. This does not mean either study is mistaken in their findings rather it means there must be further study to find out why, if both are accurate, the contradictions exist.
oooooooooooooooooooo i did not noo about thes ants!
I guess I’m one of those “rare one”
The Amazon is NOT a “green hell”. The Amazon is not usually dangerous. The Amazon cats rarely attack humans. The Amazon is fascinating at night. The documentary reflects a very old mindset.
I saw video of villagers cutting open an anaconda that had a human inside of it.
this was made in 2005 (54:59)
EXCEL-FUCKING-LENT VIDEO!
Wish it was higher res
U know I've never seen a site as sad as wen my tetramorium queen ant died cause I maybe interfered with an adoption process(simply the queen was not allowed to care 4 the brewd from the super colony so the worker attached itself to the queens antenni n umm yea interference so I put the test tube by the super colonies entrance in my house with the dead queen n she had 2 n 1 died cause of the adoption well they carried the queen out m gave her a formal burial I hope but her baby wouldn't leave the tube till some new brother tetramorium came out n now her baby is with the super colony n hope in gud social order
Theres gotta b more than 1 queen so I think maybe it's because the brewd wasnt hers idk but would love to study if possable the social order of a super colony
The underground
How can anyone with a functioning brain look at the close up scan of the ants antennae at 7:30, and conclude that it is the result of evolution? Every part of the ants antennae is specifically designed for what it does! You don’t develop all those sense organs by random genetic mutations, only a fool could think so! To think that these ants have continuously survived for millions of years is preposterous! How would a species of ant be able to evolve different types of ant, as in soldier ants with huge jaws, versus the worker ants with smaller jaws? How would ants evolve to survive by laying 100,000 eggs at a time, just to move them all over the next 3 weeks and start the process over again? These insects were created like this!
"I don't understand therefore goddidit!"
Great footage and info, but it's about as organized as my EEB 2245W paper
Proverbs 6:6-10 "go to the ants, you lazy one, see its ways and become wise. Although it has no commander, officer or ruler, it prepares its .....
45.35 mummy uhhh scare movie
16:40
Wasp trail 21:38
Can army ants be used to control invasive ants species??
29.37 you lied something little. First Ants it's not blind . Fact it's that how we see is little funny... We see gold signature of enemies. This is not we are blind. Nope soldier see's different not gold signature. But mixture signature. Welcome Ants colony's we looking always great bug's to anjoy afterlife
43:40..We have no evidence to show if this procedure will hurt the Queen or NOT??!! Let ME cut into you with sharp scissors to see if, YOU need evidence or NOT.. That it will HURT!! Like you didn't notice her leg's kicking hard?? The Documentary was good non-the-less.
blind? i call bullshit on that
Lpl9
you talk to much and 2 fast tAKE A BREAK