We Just Discovered That Ants Can Perform Surgery

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  • @captain_buggles
    @captain_buggles 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +38356

    I've always thought it was so interesting how bugs can just lose legs and act like it's only mildly annoying at the very worst.

    • @mundodacrianca2147
      @mundodacrianca2147 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4147

      I mean, they have a lot of 'em, and generally horizontal animals are less affected by losing limbs than we are

    • @naejelangelogonzales6623
      @naejelangelogonzales6623 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Raxdflipnote has warned us about the "MARIAH CAREY ENTITY" waking up this soon christmas just like the previous gaurd @Frosted_Derp . Be wary of going to antartica during this period as you may experience hallucinations and other phychological symptoms. Just dont go there please and may god bless us

    • @xemirahobbyless
      @xemirahobbyless 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +3332

      Spiders can restrict the bloodflow to the damaged limb so they don't bleed out after they autotomize! Nature is awesome!

    • @redmatzoo3280
      @redmatzoo3280 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1534

      To be fair most only live weeks to months anyway

    • @Natediggetydog
      @Natediggetydog 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1257

      Many bugs can regrow lost limbs. Next time they molt their exoskeleton after the loss, a replacement will have started growing and will develop more and more between each molt.

  • @jugganaut33
    @jugganaut33 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +18523

    Imagine your buddy just randomly chewing off your leg at the thigh for an hour. With no pain killers.
    And you just sitting there like it’s the normal. Ants are just different.

    • @azaria_phd
      @azaria_phd 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1423

      I mean, insects are not known to experience pain. They only experience stress when hurt, and I guess maybe knowing that antputation is good for it, they don't experience stress in that situation.

    • @hua..
      @hua.. 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +428

      Not really random when they are essentially wired to do this and react accordingly

    • @JohnS-fo4jg
      @JohnS-fo4jg 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thousands of children in Gaza are having limbs amputated without anesthetic.

    • @jktech2117
      @jktech2117 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +169

      ​@@azaria_phd so a clear sign of consciousness

    • @mryellow6918
      @mryellow6918 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +55

      @@jktech2117 in what way

  • @moseptyagami606
    @moseptyagami606 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1122

    They only live a few months to 2 years at most, but they care so much about each other they still try to save each other.

    • @avpman150
      @avpman150 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +53

      They care about surviving and aiding the hive and queen.

    • @mucicafrajer
      @mucicafrajer 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +35

      No dude they're only working towards the survival of the hive. Saving another worker is a big step in that direction

    • @cameronschyuder9034
      @cameronschyuder9034 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +58

      @@mucicafrajertbf we can’t truly differentiate between motives for non-human species due to lack of ability to communicate with them. We only watch them and guess. Anything that presumes ants don’t care or do care depends on assumptions of the capabilities of non-human species that we cannot prove.
      Which doesn’t mean your explanation doesn’t make sense, but that doesn’t mean the original comment was wrong bc “protecting the hive” and “caring for another” are not mutually exclusive reasons. As an analogy, I can help someone because I think helping others is beneficial for our species while also having a genuine care for their well-being.
      “Stop anthropomorphizing them.” Anthropomorphism is placing human behaviors onto other species, usually and particularly in a way that does not apply, i.e is incorrect. As I said, this is not something we can really prove. To care about someone else does not require a verbal language nor human intelligence.

    • @mucicafrajer
      @mucicafrajer 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      @cameronschyuder9034 Yes we cannot prove it but from what we've observed we can conclude that it's extremely likely to be true

    • @kritizismmusics9737
      @kritizismmusics9737 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Smart little dudes

  • @WanderingExistence
    @WanderingExistence 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +14880

    We give other animals a lot less credit than what they deserve.

    • @GigaSimp
      @GigaSimp 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +92

      You mean insects?

    • @WanderingExistence
      @WanderingExistence 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +352

      @GigaSimp Still an animal...

    • @saxeisrap7846
      @saxeisrap7846 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +263

      People think consciousness is characteristic and exclusive to human beings. What we tend to observe more and more in nature is that we are, likely, the only species with individual consciousness. Because all the others seem to function as if under a collective consciousness, from which they don't know any other form of it, hence operating, adpted to their lifestyle, as a single organism. We forgot we are part of the same organism called Earth when we achieved individual consciousness, which if by one side allowed us to get much further in an explorative sense towards the physical world, it made us derive from the part of reality we can't see, including our relation with our environment, as phyisical individuals. It's like we are the only animal who forgot we are part of a bigger picture, hence lost to our personal objectives and goals, and forgetting our roles in this bigger picture. Ants inteligency gives a hint to their connectedness rather than separation as an organism, illusion given by the physical delimitarions. I don't know if I passed my idea correctly but I hope it's understandable.

    • @makismakiavelis5718
      @makismakiavelis5718 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +51

      ​@@saxeisrap7846
      Those were exactly my thoughts, except I can't communicate them as eloquently as you. We all adapted to the environment of this particular planet so, I always thought we have more similarities than differences with most of the other life forms. The core thing that sets us apart is individual consciousness, as you put it. It's the only reason why we seem like aliens in this world.

    • @PeterSmith-ry4tp
      @PeterSmith-ry4tp 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

      They don't 'deserve' anything. Desert is a human invention.

  • @Motionlesscapture
    @Motionlesscapture 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6546

    Fun fact: some ants also bury their dead in order to keep the colony clean of infection, they know a lot more than some of us think

    • @AtticusKarpenter
      @AtticusKarpenter 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +480

      Not in human style know, they don't keep libraries with this information or something. All this complex behaviour is evolutionary encoded so they instinctively do all this from the birth
      But its impressive that their enormous by insect standards intellect allowed them to even try such behaviour that then was secured by natural selection into instincts

    • @leyrua
      @leyrua 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +703

      Somebody actually ran an experiment where they coated a living ant in the pheromone that they release when they die. The other ants tried to carry him off to the burial chamber, but got very confused when he kept moving. And since nobody else would take him to the burial chamber, eventually he went and sat HIMSELF down in that chamber until the pheromone wore off.

    • @JuanGamer0202
      @JuanGamer0202 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +544

      ​@@leyrua bro really said "guess I'm dead then"

    • @paintisfood
      @paintisfood 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +276

      ​@@leyruaImagine being slathered in cadaverine and coming to the conclusion that you MUST be dead. 😂

    • @KrakatonMain
      @KrakatonMain 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +83

      I've seen antkeepers showing their setups and mention the "trash bin/graveyard" and always thought that was really cool that they've evolved that kind of behavior. Nature is freaking wild.
      ... wild nature AW DAMMIT. See, had that pun been intentional, I would've been proud. But now I'm just upset with myself. And I swear, if one of you comes and replies to me with another "ant" pun I'm gonna lose whatever shred of hope I was clinging to

  • @blackspiderman1887
    @blackspiderman1887 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1666

    Word of advice, do not go to a Carpenter Ant Doctor if you're suffering from erectile dysfunction.

    • @Eagle_the_18th
      @Eagle_the_18th 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +112

      personal experience?

    • @darealbukchoyboi
      @darealbukchoyboi 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +69

      ​@@Eagle_the_18thnah his friend told him

    • @jadsmvs8651
      @jadsmvs8651 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +53

      Thanks for the tip

    • @randybudbud8358
      @randybudbud8358 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      You got a lil ant d"*k

    • @RS54321
      @RS54321 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

      Micropenis?

  • @eyeballplanets
    @eyeballplanets 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +4561

    I really appreciate a short form science education video that wasn't written by AI and actually shows scholarly articles, plus humor! Immediately endeared me, I love this.

    • @SpectrumAnalysis
      @SpectrumAnalysis 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +53

      I mean besides the AI ant-doctor image anyway...

    • @DoggoDoesStuff
      @DoggoDoesStuff 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +76

      @@SpectrumAnalysisI thought that was photoshop

    • @tsuki_moon.1
      @tsuki_moon.1 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Lmao i make them limbless all the time

    • @Velvet-Of-Erion
      @Velvet-Of-Erion 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Oh no ai 🙄

    • @SuperEmmetMan
      @SuperEmmetMan 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +25

      I guess you could say... It was a pretty ant-mazing video! 😂 *cough cough

  • @joseislanio8910
    @joseislanio8910 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +13070

    Do they use any disinfectANT?

    • @Creakyfoot
      @Creakyfoot 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +740

      No, they aren't reiANT on any disinfectANT.

    • @Baconist-rn9ng
      @Baconist-rn9ng 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +738

      ​@@Creakyfoot I ANTicipated someone would say that.

    • @xlynx9
      @xlynx9 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +213

      Please stop

    • @joseislanio8910
      @joseislanio8910 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +686

      @@xlynx9 I cANT

    • @Creakyfoot
      @Creakyfoot 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +442

      ​@@xlynx9 there's no stopping. The chANT will live on

  • @diablojones
    @diablojones 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +75

    Ants are one of the most fascinating animals on this rock.

    • @faismasterx
      @faismasterx 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Check under the rock.

    • @ek0dev
      @ek0dev 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      ​@@faismasterx DEAR GOD, THERE'S MORE ANTS

    • @xXBIG_SH0T1997Xx
      @xXBIG_SH0T1997Xx 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@ek0devJust send a giant magnifying glass towards the sun and have the solar beams burning straight through the core! Problem solved!
      Edit: Houston, we have a problem. I just realized *WE ARE THE ANTS*

    • @LoudPipesSavesLives
      @LoudPipesSavesLives 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Insects

    • @HereComesThe-Sun
      @HereComesThe-Sun 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@LoudPipesSavesLives still animals

  • @richardrothkugel8131
    @richardrothkugel8131 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +4315

    I've observed this behaviour in the wild many years ago. I'm glad somebody did a study because it wasn't my domain.

    • @Kevin-jb2pv
      @Kevin-jb2pv 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +51

      *order

    • @ZeroKyle
      @ZeroKyle 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      same!

    • @TbV-st8ef
      @TbV-st8ef 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

      ​@@Kevin-jb2pvdang good one

    • @boredboi6279
      @boredboi6279 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +43

      Did someone say domain? 🤞

    • @vze1ruuh
      @vze1ruuh 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@boredboi6279😂😂😂😂

  • @celestialtimesquid
    @celestialtimesquid 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1689

    Fun Fact: Megaponera analis, the Matabele Ants, are known for consistently providing life-saving healthcare in the form of highly-antibacterial saliva that is applied onto injured ants that aren’t beyond saving (after being med-evacuated back to the colony from the site of combat). Ants that are beyond saving will even thrash about, resisting help, since even if they survive, they won’t be a very big help to the colony.

    • @generalborks8986
      @generalborks8986 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Crazy how ants have better healthcare then Americans

    • @alphagt62
      @alphagt62 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +85

      I wonder if it would be worth while to collect this anti microbial fluid for use on humans?
      An ant starts chewing another’s leg off, he says, “don’t worry, I’m a doctor “.

    • @GrantTarredus
      @GrantTarredus 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +26

      Thanks very much for that; I find it fascinating, and I’ll read about this tonight.

    • @GrantTarredus
      @GrantTarredus 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

      @@alphagt62I’d very much expect that to be in practice already if it was possible. But I know nothing.

    • @ObregonLA
      @ObregonLA 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      So PTSD? So cool.

  • @Loe_2.0
    @Loe_2.0 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +35

    another things that shows how ants are like humans, if you don’t know the rest, let me catch you up on them: they have a monarchy, they are invasive, they want to conquer other ants but some ants species (like army ants) ignore other army ants just like humans, they have livestock (like aphids and melee bugs), they slave other ants and finally, they are doctors like what what we’ve learnt today.

    • @justanotherhappyhumanist8832
      @justanotherhappyhumanist8832 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Also, they bury their dead, and build enormous homes and cities, with different functions, for different ants doing different jobs (of different classes)!

    • @wizardsuth
      @wizardsuth 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ants predate humans by hundreds of millions of years. They don't act like us; we sometimes act like them.

  • @gormok9558
    @gormok9558 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +621

    Its amazing how developed some ant species colony are, like leaf cutter ant farming fungus for food by feeding it leaf which is literally agricultural practice and then this,You gonna wonder how they figure stuff like this out.

    • @AtticusKarpenter
      @AtticusKarpenter 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Individual ants aren't, evolution are, all this stuff is encrypted in their DNA, its different from the humans who invented and preserve technology and culture outside the genes, just by teaching next generations.
      Still, ants are turned out to be smart enough to try many different novel things so natural selection preserved some of them into genes like those technology-like adaptations - agriculture and such stuff
      there was an ant-inventor of this shit, probably many of them. DNA-based storing of advanced behaviour, comparing to culture/teaching-based, circumvent only "teaching next generations" part, not actual inventing

    • @slate2720
      @slate2720 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +59

      Weaver ants are pretty cool too and use the larvas silk to build homes in tree branches instead of living in rotten wood or in the soil or mounds.
      Termites are crazy too and use fungus for food, and sometimes even grow whole mushrooms in certain conditions, and use their droppings to build a lot of stuff, including little safety tunnels in the surface of logs and other open stretches to avoid predators and intense light.

    • @NeonSpaceflight
      @NeonSpaceflight 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +31

      I love how leaf cutter ants are just tiny farmers. It's adorable!

    • @Alvarocious
      @Alvarocious 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +34

      They also milk aphids like cows

    • @TheSickonion
      @TheSickonion 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      They don't. They're coded this way

  • @erikig
    @erikig 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2049

    Sounds like a Florida solution 😂
    Other ants are like: “here’s this medical goop”
    Florida ants like: 🔪 🗡️ 🍴

    • @tristinsperry5171
      @tristinsperry5171 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +62

      Not to kill the joke, but the ants probably would discard the amputated limbs in their trash disposal area. They're very tidy

    • @Vic-the-Brick
      @Vic-the-Brick 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +108

      ​​@@tristinsperry5171 and thats the difference between a floridian and Ants.

    • @superzockertvyt9630
      @superzockertvyt9630 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +41

      Floridiants

    • @naejelangelogonzales6623
      @naejelangelogonzales6623 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

      I ANTicipated for this joke

    • @G_Axel9
      @G_Axel9 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      Florida doctors approve it

  • @pradoshtv
    @pradoshtv 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    And they do it without massive insurance scams..

  • @thebe_stone
    @thebe_stone 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +47

    Even ants get free healthcare 💀💀

    • @LadyScaper
      @LadyScaper 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Very telling.

  • @Soki_Hinasoto
    @Soki_Hinasoto 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1067

    us: needs schools
    cats: just knows ap pysics
    ants: just knows how to perform surgery

    • @johannsanchocuevas7854
      @johannsanchocuevas7854 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

      We are mere slaves to our animal overlords

    • @jeffthemagicalpufferfishco9006
      @jeffthemagicalpufferfishco9006 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +228

      From the study I've seen it's more interesting than that. The ants don't instinctively know when or where to cut, they have to follow other "doctor" ants for a while and learn and watch how it's done before performing these surgeries while under supervision of a more knowledgeable ant. It's really cool and ant medical school is apparently a thing

    • @Soki_Hinasoto
      @Soki_Hinasoto 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      @@jeffthemagicalpufferfishco9006oh cool

    • @princessaka3189
      @princessaka3189 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +35

      ​@@jeffthemagicalpufferfishco9006so basicly like we did before schools.

    • @danielbar5646
      @danielbar5646 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +32

      Ants also have fungus farms they tend to

  • @counterfeit6089
    @counterfeit6089 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

    Ants have achieved a form of civilization, and stuff like this just proves it more, to me.

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It's just pheromones and murder.

  • @-desertpackrat
    @-desertpackrat 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +541

    Tarantulas do this too in some cases, but they have to do it alone 😢 I saw a tarantula removed its own leg and was holding it, and it freaked me out so I looked it up, and apparently if something like a cricket or other prey bites their leg while they're hunting and there's a risk of infection, they will pull the whole leg off 😭 they grow back over time as the tarantula molts its exoskeleton, but it's kind of sad to think about. Something bites your hand and you have to sit alone in your house and yank your arm off with no assistance or tools, and then wait months to years for it to grow back. And it happens more in captivity because they're kind of trapped with their prey and can be bitten easier.

    • @MiaStar
      @MiaStar 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      😭😭

    • @felsiccanis
      @felsiccanis 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +85

      Luckily from what we know, insects and arachnids don't have a complex enough nervous system to be able to feel pain. They can feel discomfort, and they can be aware that they're missing a limb or have an injury, but it doesn't hurt them the same way injuries hurt us. So at least when they have to pull off a limb, it's at most, uncomfortable to them and not painful!

    • @AmberCommentsThings
      @AmberCommentsThings 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +28

      Tar(ANT)ulas

    • @TheMotherofTacos
      @TheMotherofTacos 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      @@felsiccanis maybe if they're lucky it kind of feels good, like peeling a sunburn or something.

    • @homo.incurvatus
      @homo.incurvatus 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      ​@@felsiccanis 'from what we know'... That's the key phrase there.

  • @DarkraiDiety
    @DarkraiDiety 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +88

    Those ants have the Civil War medical procedures going.

    • @Pool-h5w
      @Pool-h5w 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      there's going to be ant medical schools in no time

  • @BillyOnYouTube
    @BillyOnYouTube 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    "Ouchie" - Ant 274,528,545 after his ant-putation

  • @tnturnip
    @tnturnip 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

    ant's eusocial structure never ceases to amaze me. these tiny creatures can make such complex decisions on an individual level yet we crush hundreds of them on a daily basis.

    • @erkinalp
      @erkinalp 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      meanwhile they think "those bald monkeys mercilessly make bioweapons against us"

    • @Vikt-vg8nz
      @Vikt-vg8nz 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      They do not make "​decisions". Everything they do is from instinct.

    • @alextomlinson
      @alextomlinson 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Vikt-vg8nzsource?

  • @RaphBlade7
    @RaphBlade7 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +59

    Pretty cool to think ant colonies actually have medical staff or ants that basically serve that role within said colony!

  • @stephenkeri12
    @stephenkeri12 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +112

    This is the first time I’m hearing about this, but when I was a kid, I used to watch these ants do this to each other and I realize they were helping each other out and saving their aunt friends. It’s so amazing animals are so much smarter than we give them credit for.

    • @Sonia7777-d1o
      @Sonia7777-d1o 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Did you? I also watched this being a kid and I was so much disturbed and scared, I'm happy I found this amazing information and I changed my mind completely

    • @psoteriou3884
      @psoteriou3884 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

      I also watched ants do this as a child. I thought the ants were just being bullies, picking on the weaker ants and chewing their legs off for fun.

    • @Vikt-vg8nz
      @Vikt-vg8nz 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      they are not smart they're just following instincts

  • @nkronert
    @nkronert 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +413

    ANTirely plausible

  • @foreropa
    @foreropa 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    For what I have read, ants don´t feel pain as we know it, they do react to heat and other stimulus, but don´t feel pain. That doesn´t mean we can be sure, so we should treat them as if they felt it, just complementing what you said about it.

  • @RavenSteeze
    @RavenSteeze 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +62

    The trippiest thing about ants to me is how they have been farming for millions of years in many ways while us humans just started farming thousands of years ago it seems..

  • @AwfulWeather5684
    @AwfulWeather5684 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +87

    “Hey bud, looks like you’ve got a cut on your knee.. we wouldn’t want it to get infected now, would we..?”
    *Chews your leg off without asking*

  • @deadmanthehekatonkheire994
    @deadmanthehekatonkheire994 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    No words can express just how much I love ants. They're a spellbinding insect.

  • @MichaelKocha
    @MichaelKocha 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +123

    Man I love ants. They're my favorite animal even though everyone freaks out when I tell them that.

    • @franimal86
      @franimal86 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Me tooooo

    • @codered_dev2
      @codered_dev2 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Micheal!!!

    • @codered_dev2
      @codered_dev2 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      How's the game

    • @MichaelKocha
      @MichaelKocha 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@codered_dev2 lol it's coming along.

    • @Crabfather
      @Crabfather 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I love ants too !

  • @DogeRider985
    @DogeRider985 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +84

    Imagine Ant has better healthcare than your country 😅

    • @umarshehu1030
      @umarshehu1030 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      And it’s free 🤣🤣

    • @Ninja-Alinja
      @Ninja-Alinja 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I’m sure you’ll find someone to hack your leg off for free in any country.

    • @GP22855
      @GP22855 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      Cuz ants actually working for their hive, queen and aren't wasting away in meaningless jobs in corporations...

    • @EmpiricalPragmatist
      @EmpiricalPragmatist 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@GP22855 You ANTi-work people have no clue what actually goes on in real jobs do you? The world would fall down around your lazy ignorant backsides without all these people in "meaningless jobs".

    • @EmpiricalPragmatist
      @EmpiricalPragmatist 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@GP22855 You want some examples of jobs that are actually meaningless? Try governments...

  • @pabloteruel599
    @pabloteruel599 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Actually the cannibal ant sounds way more believable than the ant with a doctorate performing surgery while the other ant just stands still.

  • @-grumpygold1155
    @-grumpygold1155 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +62

    that is truly unique, cant think of another animal kingdom that have surgeons apart from self doctoring/regenerating. Its also kinda ironic that ants which have literal foot soldiers in their disposal would try and save an individual among the thousands if it could while most animals that are fewer in numbers just disposes one of their kind without batting an eye.
    Im sure its to protect the colony, wonder if bees do the same

    • @j.thomas1420
      @j.thomas1420 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Surgeon fish, surgeon crab. But that's just their name.

    • @Allsportstees
      @Allsportstees 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I once saw a squirrel try to kill itself because it was injured

    • @j.thomas1420
      @j.thomas1420 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Allsportstees the poor thing 🐿️

  • @BoneMellow
    @BoneMellow 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

    Some ant: "damn I cut my leg on that last outing, should be fine though."
    Every other ant: 🍴👁️👄👁️

  • @Bad.Pappy.Official
    @Bad.Pappy.Official 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    As a surgeon, I find this fascinating! 🐜✊

  • @skullknight2008
    @skullknight2008 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +538

    I liked the jokes. Don’t let the haters get to you buddy. They ant nothing special.

    • @Martial-Mat
      @Martial-Mat 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +28

      Groan, that was the ant-thesis of funny.

    • @dirhi
      @dirhi 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      ant 🐜

    • @JesusPlsSaveMe
      @JesusPlsSaveMe 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@Martial-Mat
      Where are you going after you die?
      What happens next? Have you ever thought about that?
      Repent today and give your life to Jesus Christ to obtain eternal salvation. Tomorrow may be too late my brethen😢.
      Hebrews 9:27 says "And as it is appointed unto man once to die, but after that the judgement

    • @Martial-Mat
      @Martial-Mat 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@JesusPlsSaveMe 🤣🤣🤣 grow up. Christians are the worst hypocrites on the planet. None of you live your lives like you believe it.

    • @SimoneBellomonte
      @SimoneBellomonte 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

      ​@@JesusPlsSaveMeReported 4 spam and religious terrorism. 🗿

  • @impulse7942
    @impulse7942 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    That ant: "I'M A SURGEON!!!"

  • @imoldgregg8
    @imoldgregg8 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Such amazing programming in such a tiny creature

  • @Dreadknight957
    @Dreadknight957 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

    Even American ants can’t cover healthcare costs

  • @halfsine
    @halfsine 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    it's crazy how ants can perform surgery, whales can have names, and slime mold can solve mazes... meanwhile my cat has yet to understand that people don't stop existing when they walk out the door

  • @PhantomThiefXI
    @PhantomThiefXI 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    their antics are always interesting

  • @PaleCrestedWolf
    @PaleCrestedWolf 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +62

    This reminds me of the Vikings scene where bro was like “shame that, it was my favourite arm”

  • @penguinwizard
    @penguinwizard 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +94

    Damn, ant surgeon!

  • @heraclitus.
    @heraclitus. 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Thats why ants are my fav insects, such systematic species with small bodies is incredible.

  • @Tar-wr3uz
    @Tar-wr3uz 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +115

    No use of anticoagulANTS necessary....

    • @ethan22ethan
      @ethan22ethan 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

      ANTicoagulANT

    • @Tar-wr3uz
      @Tar-wr3uz 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ethan22ethan always leave room for improvemANT

    • @Tar-wr3uz
      @Tar-wr3uz 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ethan22ethan always leave room for improvemANT

  • @BYAK_BYAK
    @BYAK_BYAK 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    These fellas are brilliANT sugreons.

    • @lilyumajans
      @lilyumajans 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Wise words from engineer

    • @mygirldarby
      @mygirldarby 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They aren't fellas. Ants have a queendom with all frmale workers, and only a few males. An ant colony is 95%+ female

  • @ErinBeanz
    @ErinBeanz 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This is actually pretty sick. Also, those puns are genuinely amazing

  • @shilasarkar6003
    @shilasarkar6003 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +333

    Ok
    No wonder ants are as smart as elephants.

    • @joeybru
      @joeybru 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

      That is ... hard to believe
      Elefants have biiig brain 😂

    • @shadowrylander
      @shadowrylander 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      ​@@joeybru Well, it's also the wrinklyness, so we really need to know how wrinkly ant brains are.

    • @JesusPlsSaveMe
      @JesusPlsSaveMe 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@joeybru
      To everyone in this chat, Jesus is calling you today. Come to him, repent from your sins, bear his cross and live the victorious life

    • @GigaSimp
      @GigaSimp 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

      Ant's brain works completely differently than the traditional ones we know of. They use collective intelligence.

    • @nono-yh2vi
      @nono-yh2vi 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      @@joeybruthe size of the brain doesn’t matter extremely much to a certain extent

  • @RandomGameplays64920
    @RandomGameplays64920 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

    Don't they have any ANTiseptic?

    • @c1oudsky
      @c1oudsky 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      they actually do. Some have anti bacterial saliva (if to believe a comment above, at least)

  • @Mohammad_Eiqram
    @Mohammad_Eiqram 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Nature is just Incredible.

  • @2012hinn
    @2012hinn 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I never ant-icipated that ants had such clever ant-ics.

  • @SuperXAsh
    @SuperXAsh 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    I find it slightly adorable that if they can’t bite the leg off, they opt to licking it.

  • @Badwolf222
    @Badwolf222 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +55

    How the heck do ants know this

    • @dani_dani19
      @dani_dani19 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +43

      They are smart just avoid taxes

    • @mattg5566
      @mattg5566 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +38

      I mean, if you see an injury on your buddy, and later you see them dying with the injury area being infected, it's not too far of a stretch to try getting rid of the injury on your other buddy before they start dying too.

    • @pedrogouveia4326
      @pedrogouveia4326 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +57

      instinct created by selection

    • @Badwolf222
      @Badwolf222 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @ oddly listening to a sci fi about entomologists

    • @Badwolf222
      @Badwolf222 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ yeah. Good point. I didn’t think they were dumb but that’s pretty wise

  • @Sugargag
    @Sugargag 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I never ANTicipated that. Shocking!

  • @krystencabbage1032
    @krystencabbage1032 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    This is basically how humans did medicine in the Civil War

    • @pao5796
      @pao5796 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ANTiquated surgical practices?

  • @martinxy1291
    @martinxy1291 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Ants have been probably performing surgeries, practicing agriculture and even mas construction right around the time our ancestors started to lose their tails

  • @Mr.GannerPage
    @Mr.GannerPage 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This is interesting to know that either ants have a doctors and nurses to make their patient safe and enjoy life to protect the colony

  • @andrewbreding593
    @andrewbreding593 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    Dr Miles your memeing is top notch for your age group, there aren't many science communicators who are good at the, even the big ones.

  • @lakshmb6136
    @lakshmb6136 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Ants are similarly live like humans ❌
    Humans are similarly live like ants ✔️

  • @jazzman.
    @jazzman. 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Wow, Ant surgery without ant-iseptics or ant-ibiotics. I didn't ant-icipate that.

  • @ashgamer8365
    @ashgamer8365 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Oh so they are basically us before inventing anesthesia 😂

  • @IamRa-18
    @IamRa-18 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    This may be the first time anyone has ever said
    “Ants have large muscles”

  • @Yonneax
    @Yonneax 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    They never taught us in school that bugs are sentient beings. Imagine trying to perform surgery while avoiding being stepped on. WOW!

  • @tehs3raph1m
    @tehs3raph1m 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    "ah im sorry i wish we had some kind of goo.... *Bites*"

  • @DualStupidity
    @DualStupidity 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Camponotus floridanus. I have a colony, and I've even put a few of the workers under to individually remove some mites using lemon juice and cutips.

    • @-alovelygaycat-
      @-alovelygaycat- 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You the ant surgeon’s surgeon? That’s cool.

  • @rudeawakening5816
    @rudeawakening5816 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Well, that's freakin incredible!!
    I've always found it absolutely fascinating how intelligent these tiny creatures are. I watched ants flank an earthworm one time & it was mesmerizing. A bit sad, but mesmerizing.....

  • @_Nobody_Special
    @_Nobody_Special 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    This is the Ant-ithesis of good comedy.

  • @DanielSilva-ii2tp
    @DanielSilva-ii2tp 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Crocodiles are also very good at performing amputations.

  • @m0thsquit088
    @m0thsquit088 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    oh boy I would die for a heavy breakdown on this topic, ants are so cool

  • @johnmcwick1
    @johnmcwick1 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Professor Snape wearing a snazzy coat and teaching me about and surgery? Gosh i can’t tell if I’m just sick or this is the most interesting channel I’ve seen in a while

  • @SkeletonMan001
    @SkeletonMan001 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

    “Hey man, I stubbed my toe”
    “Oh sh, let me help you with that”
    *BITES OFF LEGG*

  • @msgodgamerzz
    @msgodgamerzz 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    “WE GOT ANT SURGEONS BEFORE GTA 6” goes hard 🔥

  • @kevin7849
    @kevin7849 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    It’s a wild world we live in. People don’t give animals credit for the intelligence they possess

    • @TheRABIDdude
      @TheRABIDdude 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The ants aren't really doing anything incredibly intelligent here. The ants doesn't know WHY it feels urged to chomp of her sister's leg at the hip. It's just an instinctive impulse. Natural selection favored ants which would impulsively do this in response to seeing upper leg injury, and so it's an inbuilt instinct.

  • @Shino_666
    @Shino_666 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    i like those puns that he used.. 🤣

  • @Lamb2th
    @Lamb2th 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Dude from what I know about ants attempting to colonize continents being mixed with this information, they might be a major life form to evolve significantly in the future

  • @probliss2193
    @probliss2193 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

    When ants have infections? That's how you know the world is detailed.

    • @moussaadem7933
      @moussaadem7933 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +29

      You talk like the world is a video game. Even viruses have their own viruses

    • @thelushflame13
      @thelushflame13 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@moussaadem7933 Fr tho

    • @industrialgoose4756
      @industrialgoose4756 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      Right? Props to the developers, most people wont even know their just down deep their efforts go! That's some Dwarf Fortress level world building right there.

    • @garfield850
      @garfield850 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      Bacteria can get infections too

    • @treycopeland1368
      @treycopeland1368 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      That isn't detail. It's just how it works.

  • @zacsayer1818
    @zacsayer1818 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Ants do mot not dare go back to the nest with head injuries! 😢😂

  • @boblangford81
    @boblangford81 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I imagine an ant with a bruised leg screaming, "ITS JUST A BRUISE GUYS!!! I'LL WALK IT OFF!!!"

  • @raphaelgarcia9576
    @raphaelgarcia9576 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    What do you call the opposite of an ant? ANTimatter.

  • @CarloTheAtheist2.1
    @CarloTheAtheist2.1 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    Do they use an ANTibacterial?

    • @SirPraiseSun
      @SirPraiseSun 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      They dont its more woo woo missanthropic propaganda as long as humans believe microbes are harmful we will go deeper into slavery WE ARE MICEOBES

  • @1111Eva
    @1111Eva 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    You are hilarious, I really appreciate your sense of humor as well knowledge!

    • @jake9854
      @jake9854 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      but gurIs think hes borin n nerdy tho

  • @PBandJTime
    @PBandJTime 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    They don't use anaesthesia... Well, maybe they do. Perhaps they secrete a natural anaesthesia, or maybe their nervous system works differently than ours. Perhaps they don't feel pain the same way that we do.

  • @IsabellaM-tk7fx
    @IsabellaM-tk7fx 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Another reason why I love ants

  • @vazap8662
    @vazap8662 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    That’s amazing. We also know gorillas use medicine from chewed leaves. Doctors everywhere!
    But hold on… 40 minutes for an antputation?? Considering their size? Surely that can’t be right?

    • @edwarddrost5299
      @edwarddrost5299 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Considering the toughness of the exoskeleton and the power of their bite force, along with no anesthesia and the patient screaming and flailing all about. Yeah, 40 minutes is quick.

    • @vazap8662
      @vazap8662 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@edwarddrost5299Damn… that’s worse than the civil war! Especially since 40’ must last much longer at their scale.

  • @petercarino8540
    @petercarino8540 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Studies also show that most animals and bugs don’t process pain the same way as humans, instead of discomfort it’s more of their body acknowledging that it’s damaged. That’s why you’ll see deer running with their guts hanging out, what doesn’t kill them doesn’t entirely bother them

    • @DogDogGodFog
      @DogDogGodFog 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Or that could just be adrenaline preventing the animal from feeling the pain, the same as what happens to humans sometimes.

  • @InkyDustMan
    @InkyDustMan 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Ants got soldiers, only makes sense they'd have medics too.

  • @illustratum2002
    @illustratum2002 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    So nobody's gonna talk about the ant that literally decapitated one of its own?

    • @PhilippeLachance
      @PhilippeLachance 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Where ? I only see the amputation.

    • @joseislanio8910
      @joseislanio8910 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That's just a head amputation lol

    • @FundyisleLegacy
      @FundyisleLegacy 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Ant #1- I’ve got such a headache!
      Rest of the ants- can’t have a headache with no head!

    • @Ruby-Doc
      @Ruby-Doc 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Where!?

    • @illustratum2002
      @illustratum2002 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Ruby-Doc Watch the video

  • @Friedbaboons
    @Friedbaboons 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    must be a gigANTic pain to clean up all the insect bits afterward…

  • @rs72098
    @rs72098 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    If this sounds painful, keep in mind insects and spiders don't have complex nervous systems like mammals. Many scientists believe that pain in insects is more of an irritation versus the pain felt in an injured mammal that has thousands of nerve endings.

  • @patricewilcox792
    @patricewilcox792 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    😊 INTERESTING 😮

    • @s3ba2k
      @s3ba2k 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      ANTeresting?

  • @Kims_Hmar
    @Kims_Hmar 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    They passed medical entrance exams naturally 😂

  • @willikyn
    @willikyn 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    First surgery on a grape. Now surgery on an ant?! WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!

  • @Seracf
    @Seracf 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Ants getting a medic role before gta 6 is crazy🤯

  • @klooks1013
    @klooks1013 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    We would be so screwed if ants became human sized

  • @deff-u2
    @deff-u2 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's interesting to see Daithi de Nogla excelling in other fields

  • @shtuu18
    @shtuu18 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This summer Rob Schneider is ,,, an ant DOCTOR

  • @robinWrath16
    @robinWrath16 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Ants are Workaholics They deserve Sweets

  • @LoneStarStinger
    @LoneStarStinger 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wow! Never knew. The @AntsCanada channel really gave me a new appreciation of the tiny buggers. That guy really loves ants. They are more amazing than I would have thought.

  • @idee7896
    @idee7896 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ants analyzing the injured, assessing the injury, calculating the best course of medical treatment for the greater good its colony. 🤯👏🐜🐜👏

  • @KanonLooksLikeL
    @KanonLooksLikeL 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I wouldn't be surprised if ants also have their own engineers, Barbers, dentists, and lawyers