No ants were harmed during this video. Prior to pouring concrete, extensive negotiations with the ant citizens regarding compensation and relocation have taken place.
"What caused our ancestors to just *Abandon* a large city, housing millions if not BILLIONS? A great flood from the sky, made of solid stone they say.. Others say Ancient Aliens. Archaeologists are still looking into it." -Ant archaeological professor probably
2:19 seeing that last remaining ant gave me such a horrible feeling of existential dread... does it even realize that it's entire world just got turned into stone, and that everyone it's ever known is dead?.. they have a different way of sensing things, and I can't imagine what it's feeling. This makes me sad.
it was not mentioned in the video but the ant colony had abandoned this tunnel and moved on, or perhaps the queen had died and the colony naturally died along with her. essentially it was completely empty prior to the cement. the ant was most likely from another colony.
@@rem9748 a world record sized ant colony, and it just... "moved out" ? Found a new place? And if a queen dies, another takes her place.. they don't just all die like it's a Marvel movie. Come on, man - the producers of the show just sold that to keep animal rights activists off their back - they absolutely just created an extinction level event for those ants.
The best we could do is smothering the camera with some type of food and let them carry it inside. Since cameras work gathering photons, very small cameras can’t see anything.
I always wondered about my grandmothers house, she said her dad tried to kill the leaf cutter ants in their driveway when she was young now she is 101 and still kicking. I’m 46 and always watched those ants marching with leaves in and out of the underground mound ever since I was little. I could only imagine how massive that underground world must be! Amazing stuff!
People fail to understand how to kill leaf cutter ants. You don't go after the ants themselves. Yet, you use fungicide to kill their food source, instead.
We managed to kill our home ants this year. They were living in between two layers of old and new balcony tiles. Once we renewed our balcony tiles and destroyed their nest, they disappeared from anywhere inside the apartment also.. which is great. We tried everything before that - all sorts of poison, substances, leaving meat and then killing swarms, filling in any holes etc. The only thing that worked was destroying the nest. We couldn’t see the queen, but we think she probably died without us realising in the works..
The difference would actually be bigger. A civilization able to visit us is estimated to have around 10.000 years of technological advantage towards us. We use electricity and electrical devices for less than 200 years now- the comparison with ants is way too small. We better hope we won't be found I tell you!
Yeah I hope no aliens pour tons of cement into my house while Im gone. The Home Owners Association already measures each blade of grass. They would freak out.
One day aliens will come and inspect us just like that, and in the end after destroying everything they will say, it is truly a wonder of the universe!
Someone said in front of my Mother one day,"So your Son is half Italian eh"my Mother said with a sinister smile,"No,he is half Sicilian,biga difference"
It's a relief to know ants have headlamps to find their way down in the dark depths. But where they get batteries for them is still a puzzling mystery.
I was a proud citizen of this city. The mayor of our city had many meetings with these people and we were relocated to a new city and every citizen was also provided job at casino. I am living a good life now
@@giampaolomannucci8281 No, I get irony, but I don't blame you for saying that. I typically don't allow myself to watch yt vids until I'm done studying and just before falling asleep... Like right now. The quotes somehow escaped me which allowed me to erroneously take the comment seriously and respond the way I did.
The QURAN has mentioned about the homes of the ants 🐜, in the chapter; 'Chapter 27 "The Ants", verse 18'. Read the Quran, it's a Devine final message, it has mentioned all the discoveries of today and others yet to come. It's our and your salvation.
I wish there was a way to 3d scan. The entirety of one of these colonies to see in person in a museum how massive and well coordinated these colonies can be would be amazing
"So, I discovered this amazing, enormous city created by ants." "That's awesome, they must have incredible cooperation to do that." "Yes, they are an awe inspiring species." "By the way, how did you work out the layout of this marvellous feat of animal engineering." "Oh, I poured concrete through the tunnels and killed all the ants."
They look aliens, but we are their aliens killing them and one day space invaders aliens (if any exist) will kill us bcz we keep ‘pocking’ in the wrong place and feeding our stupid curiosity when some things should be left alone. We could safe so much lives, money and worries the day we leave these sort of things alone and start focusing in other more urgent needs that needs to be sort out. 🎋🌎👨👩👧👦🌍🐝🌏🪸
@@maryrose4228 Don't worry. The colony is an abandoned one. The small amount of ants you see are just foragers from colonies around and are of completely different types. This colony was made by Leafcutter ants.
Amazing how they give the ants so much respect for building this and call it a true wonder of the world after they wiped out their entire civilization. Who knows how much bigger this may have gotten.
Ant colonies often abandon dwellings if brooding fails to produce a viable replacement before the queen dies. I'd assume the entomologist who's pet project this is chose a colony that had run it's life cycle.
ants, bees and termites are miracles of nature. their social and building organization and instincts to accomplish these feats makes me stand in awe! thank you for this.
Ummmmm did you notice that they murdered an entire colony by filling their city with concrete? All that work by millions of ants & they got killed as a reward 🤷♀️ One day aliens will do this to us out of curiousity & we will be horrified
You'll find that these are abandoned colonies not live 'in use' colonies. Ants and termites move on to build new colonies when the resources/food around the structure run out.
I said this back when I was younger that ants would take over if they were bigger. My friend told me, and it made a lot of sense, "Ants really aren't that smart though". Now let's unpack this. If we were going to war with ants, all they would do is send tons and tons and tons of ants to fight. Ants are a "Hive mind" creature. Although very fascinating, most of what they do is instinctive. There would be no strategy on the side of the ants besides sending thousands/millions of their own to fight till there would be none left. They wouldn't strategize amoungst themselves on how to take us out.
normal brown rats do live in tunnel burrows under the ground. They also do have a langauge... and now considering wherever humans are rats, I think they might have taken over already if it weren't for brave heroic cats being out there on the streets fighting the fight.
Thank you for posting this video. The location wasn't mentioned, but a little research seemed to indicate that these mega-colonies are showing up in areas usually pastured by cattle. That it has happened in 3+ very separate parts of the world is unlikely to be by natural selection, and some insecticides tend to linger.
Humans suck. Why did they feel the need to erase them from the local ecosystem? I bet that colony was doing a lot of good for it. Such bastards them people are.
@@terrellwilson251 nah we're much more advanced now and we'd know unless a star is moving towards us with a planet ready to shoot those concrete (and even that we'd know millions of years before it'll happen) were fine and we're not even hidden tho if they can already pour concrete just might as well kill us directly so they can explore more. Besides these ants were probably invasive killing off the native species near it in that case it's definitely necessary if you wanna preserve the wild life and it's a perfect opportunity to study them so a win win. You all just really wanna this on human race so much like why even.
@@secretname9346 Yep. On a video with elephants that were paining, many people said that those elephants were being trained by abusive methods, but it was all just a rumor.
La cuestión está en que sabemos muy bien de lo que son capaces muchas personas por "investigar. Atravesar el cerebro de un gato con corriente, cortar la pata a un ratón para ver si puede crecer con experimentos, experimentar el daño de cosméticos en monos, etc. Eso es un hecho. Personas que colocan animales de diferentes especies o de la misma para ver cuál gana y lo graban. No se puede incluir a toda la especie humana por la acción de unos pocos pero es una realidad de que son sólo individuos de la especie humana los capaces de hacer cosas terribles como esas
@@akshaylalshrestha2692 from fragments here and there about it, it had its own highways, garbage disposals, funges gardens, ventilation, temperature-controlled areas. either way ant colonies are build all over the world this will teach people about ants in a way it will help the collective respect people have for ants in general. and lets not exaggerate this home invasion if it was one as some claim it so in the comments i guess they were there xD anyway we are talking about ants and its one nest people should not overinflate their sense of morality, save it for issues that actually impact ant species if people actually care as much. guy on antscanada channel talked about it a little bit in one of his vids
No, but I have the random need to know why a guy would see a huge beautiful colony of ants and his first thought is to kill them all so he can see how cool their tunnels are. Thats gross.
It was probably decades upon decades and 1000s of generations of ants to put in the work to build that paradise, until a human comes along and says "Ya know what, lets pour some cement into it!"
@@rainerwahnsinn9585 bro if there was ants there they would flow to the top or when they finish they will see ants inside the cement I mean there's millions of ants there maybe even billions so where did they disappear???
@@Dark-28200 way more. An underground system like that must be build by a super colony if ants which numbers can go up to a couple of million individuals
I have so many questions for this guy... how long did it take the ants to create their City? How did the guy know that the colony existed? Was the colony abandoned prior to this video or did the scientists fulfill some ancient biblical Ant prophecy about the coming end of days? And do ants sleep?
Equally stunning is the patience required to unearth the megalopolus. I had a carpenter ant problem a few yrs ago. I left them alone at first having a 'live and let live' philosophy, until one night to my horror I saw thousands heading into my cedar deck. I couldn't believe the damage, they riddled it with tunnels that went into my house. From that point on it was war! I spent night after night dusting them with boric acid. It took a couple of years to see the last of them. I don't know why they're called carpenter ants.. none were actual carpenters. 😄
@@badcholesterol no because i would be suffucated and cemeted into concrete. plus we dont multiply like ants do also they are fucking bugs calm down you loser hippy
I was upset until I realized that it was abandoned, that's crazy genius how amazing that city was. Truly unbelievable! I'm more than sure I wouldn't be able to build an underground structure by just retracing my steps, I'd certainly would need some blueprints 😛
That thing belongs in a museum. You could tag and identify each peice and section, make a map of how every peice fits together, perhaps laser scan it for proper alignment, then break it up into manageable peices for later assembly. It would be a huge undertaking though, the support system for everything would be rather complex.
You wouldn't have any issues with it if this nest existed under your house. Also, "genocide" refers to people. Ants hardly qualify. Besides, there are probably a million more for every individual ant they killed with this.
@@sushitrash4949 You sure it wasnt because some ants wanted to be female and be called the right pronounes maybe the queen wanted to be male and so stop producing "his" species 🧐
I did pest control for nearly 19 years, I always felt a little bad when I killed social insects like ants or bees(in my defense I only killed one migrating bee hive). They're very interesting, I especially like bees they will groom a returning drones that has no pollin on it just to make it feel better and keep up moral. You can walk right up to a hive and they don't even care about you, Though the instant you get scared they can smell it and you'll set the hive on alert. Probably get stung at that point
don't you all love when keyboard warriors rage over an abandoned anthill calling it "genocide" and "they destroyed it" if this were a still active colony you would be seeing SO MANY MORE ANTS. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MASSIVE THIS THING IS?! There would be THOUSANDS pouring out the moment the cement dripped in. Either it's the last vestiges of an already dying colony, in which case they weren't going to live very long anyway, since ants only live a few months, or these are other ants that are investigating an abandoned colony. These people have saved this structure from eroding away under the natural elements. Also, even if it were inhabited, they're ANTS. There are millions of ants for every person on earth. This is not an extinction event. If anything, as I mentioned before, any colony that was still living in those tunnels was ALREADY DYING OUT.
I love studying ants. They’re so fascinating. My land flooded and to see these rafts of ants just floating towards the banana tree. It’s almost like they were saying. Over there, left a little.
We really can learn a lot of subjects by studying the ant colony..no wonder my son during his younger years was very much curious and wanted to follow where the ants thrive..He is now a graduate of civil engineering..His fascination 'bout structures grew..thanks to the ants and insects around 😆
Can't say nothing wrong with that. My son is only 12 and he is always taking things apart to see how they function. I can only hope something good comes from it. 😆
Wait a minute…So they killed all those ants just to see how they were living? That’s what the aliens are gonna do to us when they get here 😂 that’ll be karma.
And we think we're the only intelligent animals here on this planet. That is just amazing that City that those ants built is just downright mind blowing
My question is where did the "40 tons" of soil the ants excavated go? The hill outside the hole at the beginning looked to only be maybe 1 or 2 tons. My guess is that erosion carries most of it away as they slowly pile it up.
@@badpiggies988 I bet the ants had a place called Dresden too. I bet all their peace treaties were ignored as well. They just wanted to be left alone and not be a part of the plutocratic globalist system that now enslaves us all.
Finally, out of all the comments saying "Oh wow!" Or joking about moving the ants, I finally find ONE that is like my mindset on how they destroyed the ant settlement just so they can look at the cast of it's remains. We've become idiots to destruction of things we wish to study, it is our destiny
Evn when pouring cements the ants were moving around the muzzle. And they say it was abandoned. Just so you know, ants don't abandon their colony unless it is destroyed or damaged.
This colony was not that large. In the Chingola area of Zambia I have seen absolutely huge ant hills. One of my staff told me they needed to build a road across a stretch of bad ground so they took ground from an anthill. (The soil in the hill having been chemically altered by the ants it is much better than the natural ground for road building) they loaded out three hundred cubic metres of soil from the heap. I can believe it. Close to the back fence of the house we were renting as an office was a heap of enormous size, like half as big as the house. I can only imagine that the environment in that area has remained relatively stable allowing continuous occupation for centuries, perhaps Millenia. Most regular anthills that I have seen contain only 1-2 cubic metres with the bigger ones getting up to the 5-10 cubic metre size.
No ants were harmed during this video. Prior to pouring concrete, extensive negotiations with the ant citizens regarding compensation and relocation have taken place.
Ants moved to a greener pasture and are now running casinos.
hahaha 🙌🏽respect
Good one lol
@@ms-jl6dl beat me to it
Let’s pour concrete in your house next.
"After 30 years of hard labour we've finally finished our capital. Let a new era of peace begin... What's that noise?"
🤣🤣
Sad, but funny at the same time.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!! This comment wins the internet this week!
underrated AF lmaooooo
LMAOOOO
Humans are disgusting
For those of you wondering, they had to intervene. I mean the ants had mini nuclear weapons at this point
lmao! 🤣
Did they ever find weapons of mass destruction??
Asking for a friend
@@donjohnson5653 No yellow cake, but they did find many tiny poppy fields and Oil
@@donjohnson5653 They didn't find any nukes.. but there was antomic bomb.
@@darz_k. good one lol😆😅🤣
That lone surviving ant deserves its revenge
👍🤣
I saw that too!
We got the ant batman
I might make a villain arc meme
It was abandoned
“The tunnels are designed to ensure good ventilation”
Humans : Let’s pour concrete in it
They're always trying to ruin everything
@No No wow very childish, 10 year old photo. Also dont really care what you think
the ant hill was abandoned
@@thatguy_v4 no it wasnt i just watched the entire documentary this is from its on youtube
EDIT: i was wrong. It was abandoned
@@3nthamornin it was bruh
"What caused our ancestors to just *Abandon* a large city, housing millions if not BILLIONS? A great flood from the sky, made of solid stone they say.. Others say Ancient Aliens. Archaeologists are still looking into it." -Ant archaeological professor probably
That's why I prefer cremation when I go. You won't ever rest peace. Lol!
SOMEONE please recreate the 'it was aliens' meme with an ant with the crazy hair instead of the guy
@@enshk79 LOL I was gonna make a Tsoukalos reference but didn't know if anyone would get it!
@對不起，謝謝。 You should apologize. Your diet is killing people and your privilege is showing. Stop it.
@對不起，謝謝。 Never trust a vegan. NEVER!
Government when they found out the ants living happily without paying taxes.
After this
Government pass the bill in which ant also pay taxes if they want to live here...😂
2:19 seeing that last remaining ant gave me such a horrible feeling of existential dread... does it even realize that it's entire world just got turned into stone, and that everyone it's ever known is dead?.. they have a different way of sensing things, and I can't imagine what it's feeling. This makes me sad.
it was not mentioned in the video but the ant colony had abandoned this tunnel and moved on, or perhaps the queen had died and the colony naturally died along with her. essentially it was completely empty prior to the cement. the ant was most likely from another colony.
@@rem9748lol you can literally see ants crawling all over it before they start pouring the concrete water.. 0:06
@@richebronsonifyants don't have souls
Womp womp
@@rem9748 a world record sized ant colony, and it just... "moved out" ? Found a new place? And if a queen dies, another takes her place.. they don't just all die like it's a Marvel movie. Come on, man - the producers of the show just sold that to keep animal rights activists off their back - they absolutely just created an extinction level event for those ants.
It would be interesting if there was a camera small enough to glue to an ant so you could get a tour of the inside of one.
It would need some NVD
Brilliant idea
The best we could do is smothering the camera with some type of food and let them carry it inside. Since cameras work gathering photons, very small cameras can’t see anything.
Endoscopy would do this quite well
@@gypsycat1765 endoscopic cameras have lights attached, very nifty
2:23 I gotta feel bad for that lonely ant who came back to a empire that has disappeared into concrete when he got back
You missed the mark
Thats a dad who came back from buying milk 10 years ago and decided to go back to see his son who is 22 years old now.
And what about the ones who died petrified by tons of solid cement?
2:19😉
Yeah so sad
ants must felt like pompei when the cement starts rushing in
🎵And the walls kept tumbling down in the city that we looooooove🎵
It was already mostly abandoned
The Legions of the Night TLotN this was an abandoned ant colony, the biggest in the world
It was abandoned this is the third video I seen of this particular city
@@cajunamuria5938 that's because you're ignorant, to lazy to search for truth but always fast enough to criticise someone without any knowledge
Who came here after watching that short video 👀
me
me, and I need a longer video than this one now
lol me too
came here from JasperStorm short
Me 😂
I always wondered about my grandmothers house, she said her dad tried to kill the leaf cutter ants in their driveway when she was young now she is 101 and still kicking. I’m 46 and always watched those ants marching with leaves in and out of the underground mound ever since I was little. I could only imagine how massive that underground world must be! Amazing stuff!
People fail to understand how to kill leaf cutter ants. You don't go after the ants themselves. Yet, you use fungicide to kill their food source, instead.
@@TheProfessor936 maybe find a new way to live..? Like co-existence ✌️
Therir Creator is far more AMAZING and .... AMAZING!
@@marcoduvall4404 HIGHLIGHTED COMMENT
We managed to kill our home ants this year. They were living in between two layers of old and new balcony tiles. Once we renewed our balcony tiles and destroyed their nest, they disappeared from anywhere inside the apartment also.. which is great. We tried everything before that - all sorts of poison, substances, leaving meat and then killing swarms, filling in any holes etc. The only thing that worked was destroying the nest. We couldn’t see the queen, but we think she probably died without us realising in the works..
2:18 my boy gunna train to avenge his clan
Damn that ant will surely be a cool protagonist
#sasuke life lmao
UNDERATED COMMENT BRO xD
Sasuke
Would have been funny if the dude just squished em
This is how advanced aliens would treat humans.
The ant colony was abandoned, that's why they excavated it... but I get your point.
@Purple Emerald it’s they job
The difference would actually be bigger.
A civilization able to visit us is estimated to have around 10.000 years of technological advantage towards us.
We use electricity and electrical devices for less than 200 years now- the comparison with ants is way too small.
We better hope we won't be found I tell you!
Yeah I hope no aliens pour tons of cement into my house while Im gone. The Home Owners Association already measures each blade of grass. They would freak out.
@@genghispecan so basically what would happen if aliebs find us after we go extinct
One day aliens will come and inspect us just like that, and in the end after destroying everything they will say, it is truly a wonder of the universe!
Let me ask, did you also come here from a youtube short or was that just me
@@vanthekfod Yep, I came here from a yt short!
Bla bla bla
😂😂
@@vanthekfodI did
They first tell you they admire you, then cast you in cement. These Brazilian scientists must have some Sicilian ancestry...
Please, explain.
@s1rhcs1vad ...I think I’m tracking...
How dare you not answer me?
@@mercandog507 Jesus dude. Chill.
Someone said in front of my Mother one day,"So your Son is half Italian eh"my Mother said with a sinister smile,"No,he is half Sicilian,biga difference"
It's a relief to know ants have headlamps to find their way down in the dark depths. But where they get batteries for them is still a puzzling mystery.
By their fellow nature bros the Energizer bunny. Duuuh.
🐰🔋🐜
Actually they have a deal with eel...
The eel provides them the electricity.
Generate their own trickery, like in bio luminescence. Clever little buggers.
~~ LOL ~~ love it! :) 🐜🐜🌿🌼
Glow bugs.🐛
I was a proud citizen of this city. The mayor of our city had many meetings with these people and we were relocated to a new city and every citizen was also provided job at casino. I am living a good life now
All worker ants are female so were you a female ant, males die of exhaustion after mating season
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😞😂
Fr?
Best regards, Antony Carcassius
@@gamergodyt7702why? are you trying to bang? 😂😭
this ant city would be such a good video game city
Hollow Knight
There is actually a game: Empires of the Undergrowth
Hollow Knight
It really made me think about the Hive of the Mantids in Turok 2.
"Highly advanced aliens wouldn't waste their time with a primitive species like ours. We'd be as interesting to them as ants are to us."
And yet, look at all the time and effort that _humans_ just spent to study the "lowly" ant...
@@ed4096 you don't get irony
@@giampaolomannucci8281 No, I get irony, but I don't blame you for saying that. I typically don't allow myself to watch yt vids until I'm done studying and just before falling asleep... Like right now.
The quotes somehow escaped me which allowed me to erroneously take the comment seriously and respond the way I did.
@@ed4096 you're still more advanced than ED 209
Ants with rockets & lasers?
They should put this on display at a museum. This is absolutely unreal.
Nature is mind boggling!!!
Now how would they get the colony to the museum?
@@ace5065 ask the brits
@@milo9882 😂😂😂 Brilliant!
The QURAN has mentioned about the homes of the ants 🐜, in the chapter;
'Chapter 27 "The Ants", verse 18'.
Read the Quran, it's a Devine final message, it has mentioned all the discoveries of today and others yet to come. It's our and your salvation.
@@knowingAllah I don't mind religious people, but don't try to force it one me or others.
I wish there was a way to 3d scan. The entirety of one of these colonies to see in person in a museum how massive and well coordinated these colonies can be would be amazing
It's very provoking
Easy. It's called nanotechnology.
Send billions of those little things and have them send their data back lol
Oculus quest 2
yeah then they didnt have to murder am entire world of ants
@@malikruncie7276 You could have just read the other comments before jumping to conclusions...
Attention: All ants were killed in the making of this video.
The level of carnage would be unbelievable, how did they dispose of all the eggs and rotting live ants?
wow
One ant survived at 2:22
Absolutely untrue. This was an ABANDONED ant colony. But go on..get your likes..
@@avalopethe witness, no one will believe them.
@@productrecall5183they showed the live ants at the beginning of the video. It was not abandoned and all the ants were killed.
Ep. 7 of “Where Quarantine has brought me”
where the f is there still a quarantine?
Or do you have Corona, and are in self quarantine?
MT Promises where I am rn, we having lockdown...Nd the name kinda sounds nice.
MT Promises “Where lockdown has brought me”...”Where life brought me”...
MT Promises Nd I do not have corona...but do you??
"So, I discovered this amazing, enormous city created by ants." "That's awesome, they must have incredible cooperation to do that." "Yes, they are an awe inspiring species." "By the way, how did you work out the layout of this marvellous feat of animal engineering." "Oh, I poured concrete through the tunnels and killed all the ants."
I fell sorry for all the ants
They look aliens, but we are their aliens killing them and one day space invaders aliens (if any exist) will kill us bcz we keep ‘pocking’ in the wrong place and feeding our stupid curiosity when some things should be left alone. We could safe so much lives, money and worries the day we leave these sort of things alone and start focusing in other more urgent needs that needs to be sort out. 🎋🌎👨👩👧👦🌍🐝🌏🪸
@@maryrose4228 Don't worry. The colony is an abandoned one. The small amount of ants you see are just foragers from colonies around and are of completely different types. This colony was made by Leafcutter ants.
@@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457thanks for the insight
there are trillions of ants on this planet.@@maryrose4228
Amazing how they give the ants so much respect for building this and call it a true wonder of the world after they wiped out their entire civilization. Who knows how much bigger this may have gotten.
Imagine when Aliens do the same to us one day. "Wow these monkeys really built a lot." *Pours cement over planet in admiration*
Oh how the turn tables
colonizer mentality
Quite sure the colony was abandoned when they excavated it
Ant colonies often abandon dwellings if brooding fails to produce a viable replacement before the queen dies. I'd assume the entomologist who's pet project this is chose a colony that had run it's life cycle.
People have an easier time believing ants built this, but struggle to believe humans built the great pyramids... ironic.
🤡♿️
To be fair, we don't even know how they built them.
We cant carry 10 times our weight lmao
Hypocrisy of Europeans...
When curiosity strikes, human will destroy something....
Just like America
This is decently old news and the colony had found a new area to move to so it really didn’t matter
@@expressm1753 get ready for China...They claimed Africa
kevin hobson what? 😂
kevin hobson grow up
ants, bees and termites are miracles of nature. their social and building organization and instincts to accomplish these feats makes me stand in awe! thank you for this.
Ummmmm did you notice that they murdered an entire colony by filling their city with concrete? All that work by millions of ants & they got killed as a reward 🤷♀️ One day aliens will do this to us out of curiousity & we will be horrified
@@allisonjames2923 didn't they say the nest was abandoned? I don't think they murdered the ants.
Social is the wrong word.
Unless you would say that the cells in our human body's are also social.
But awe is definitely the right word!
It’s all thanks to Allah, the design is too complicated to be by random design
These people didn't discover this, they just destroyed it.
They are painting this mindless destruction of the ant colony as scientific discovery. All for money fed by a British banking system.
If given a chance these ants will dig into the human brain to search where the evil lies.
well someone had to do it or you wouldn't be keyboard complaining.
You'll find that these are abandoned colonies not live 'in use' colonies. Ants and termites move on to build new colonies when the resources/food around the structure run out.
@@LeonEvans_Guyver1 Thanks for the information
The ants had weapons of mass destruction
Mr. Ant President there was a second plane
Holy Shit! Imagine how many years it took for these tiny ass ants to make a goddamn continent in their eyes
Lmao😂
Yeah
Also imagine how many hidden ant colonies are out there somewhere...
@@namchung1863 please don't discover them
@@jaysonmudiedi3857 : ) Well said Jayson~ hahah
How cool would it been if we had a robotic ant going in as undercover, and see what’s really going on down there.
I was thinking the same thing lol
yeah a little gopro on his head....
Sort of like the phone company and maybe the government 🤔
We do, have you ever heard of Myra?
One weird behavior of the robot and they eill kill em
That was crazy how intricate that whole nest was. Imagine if ants were big as rats would they take over 😂
Undoubtedly. Makes you wonder
Haha
I said this back when I was younger that ants would take over if they were bigger. My friend told me, and it made a lot of sense, "Ants really aren't that smart though". Now let's unpack this. If we were going to war with ants, all they would do is send tons and tons and tons of ants to fight. Ants are a "Hive mind" creature. Although very fascinating, most of what they do is instinctive. There would be no strategy on the side of the ants besides sending thousands/millions of their own to fight till there would be none left. They wouldn't strategize amoungst themselves on how to take us out.
@@LiGhTfOoT_ we’d need millions of cans of raid and flame throwers
normal brown rats do live in tunnel burrows under the ground. They also do have a langauge... and now considering wherever humans are rats, I think they might have taken over already if it weren't for brave heroic cats being out there on the streets fighting the fight.
Thank you for posting this video. The location wasn't mentioned, but a little research seemed to indicate that these mega-colonies are showing up in areas usually pastured by cattle. That it has happened in 3+ very separate parts of the world is unlikely to be by natural selection, and some insecticides tend to linger.
Ants! Nature's Secret Power is the name of the full documentary
Imagine the whole world having concrete poured over us just so aliens can understand how we live.
I'm picturing a UFO pouring concrete down a skyscraper during the busiest work hour 🤣
Don't give them any ideas bro.
russia blame ukraine america blame trump. frozen in time the fingerpointing age
I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords!
Better than molten aluminum which is what they do for normal sized ant mounds.
Ants: why do I hear boss music
CaptainHAX Gaming Imagine Gironos thème played when they did that
"Hey look, a natural happening.... "
"Yeah that's cool, let's destroy it"
Deep
Yup thats us
Humans suck. Why did they feel the need to erase them from the local ecosystem? I bet that colony was doing a lot of good for it. Such bastards them people are.
@@jangulorr7737
Oh boo-hoo. Stop whining ya big baby
That's why we can't have nice things
JRE brought me to this and I’m glad of it!😧
Could you imagine huge aliens filling our earth with concrete
They don’t have to. We are already working on that.
I think this video showed what would happen.
Yes
They probably saw Walmart and thought it was a cultural thing.
@@terrellwilson251 nah we're much more advanced now and we'd know unless a star is moving towards us with a planet ready to shoot those concrete (and even that we'd know millions of years before it'll happen) were fine and we're not even hidden tho if they can already pour concrete just might as well kill us directly so they can explore more.
Besides these ants were probably invasive killing off the native species near it in that case it's definitely necessary if you wanna preserve the wild life and it's a perfect opportunity to study them so a win win. You all just really wanna this on human race so much like why even.
*IT WAS ABANDONED GUYS CHILL OUT*
Ants aren’t exactly endangered, either.
People are quick to assume the worst right?
@@secretname9346 Yep.
On a video with elephants that were paining, many people said that those elephants were being trained by abusive methods, but it was all just a rumor.
0:16 se puede ver una hormiga viva cayendo con el cemento
La cuestión está en que sabemos muy bien de lo que son capaces muchas personas por "investigar. Atravesar el cerebro de un gato con corriente, cortar la pata a un ratón para ver si puede crecer con experimentos, experimentar el daño de cosméticos en monos, etc. Eso es un hecho. Personas que colocan animales de diferentes especies o de la misma para ver cuál gana y lo graban. No se puede incluir a toda la especie humana por la acción de unos pocos pero es una realidad de que son sólo individuos de la especie humana los capaces de hacer cosas terribles como esas
True ...😂😂
“It is truly a wonder of the world”
“It is equivalent to building the great wall of china”
And U just Destroyed it
Edit: thanks for all the likes
Ikr just what humans are good at
it was abandoned, so they preserved it so it would not get lost to the elements
Tim it actually wasnt abandoned and all the ants living in it died cause of the cement
Well if it weren’t for people like that, the rest of us would never know what ants are capable of.
@@akshaylalshrestha2692 from fragments here and there about it, it had its own highways, garbage disposals, funges gardens, ventilation, temperature-controlled areas.
either way ant colonies are build all over the world this will teach people about ants in a way it will help the collective respect people have for ants in general.
and lets not exaggerate this home invasion if it was one as some claim it so in the comments i guess they were there xD anyway we are talking about ants and its one nest people should not overinflate their sense of morality, save it for issues that actually impact ant species if people actually care as much.
guy on antscanada channel talked about it a little bit in one of his vids
Have you ever seen the movie "Phase 4"? Fascinating and frightening all at once.
Has anyone ever felt the random need to wonder what ants are doing.
All of us, brother. It's this or the Roman Empire.
No, but I have the random need to know why a guy would see a huge beautiful colony of ants and his first thought is to kill them all so he can see how cool their tunnels are. Thats gross.
@@simonfea2 The colony was abandoned.
@simonfea2 "beautiful" their ants bro.
Idk man I saw an ant march once and I followed that thing 300 yards through the woods, it was pretty fascinating
They’re literally in the middle of a big ass field minding their business
OTP D-Man it was abandoned look up the Brazilian ant cutter ant colony
OTP D-Man there was no ants left in the colony it was completely abandoned by the ants for some reason
And even If there was ants in it still.. STFU it's ants!!!!
This Guy congratulations you don’t care 😂 ants probably pinched your booty it’s okay tho
Humans always fucking shit up 😂
It was probably decades upon decades and 1000s of generations of ants to put in the work to build that paradise, until a human comes along and says "Ya know what, lets pour some cement into it!"
I think they said the ants moved into another land or something like that to build another home for them
@@H00H 00:10 shows that there were ants
@@rainerwahnsinn9585 ants are everywhere my friend plus you did saw 3 or 5 ants and it should be handered of millions of ants there
@@H00H they showd 5 seconds , and you would never see any close to million...of course it didn´t look like super-many, but not abadoned for sure
@@rainerwahnsinn9585 bro if there was ants there they would flow to the top or when they finish they will see ants inside the cement I mean there's millions of ants there maybe even billions so where did they disappear???
"For their next plan, they're looking for another ant megalopolis but instead of cement, they will be pouring a shit ton of molten aluminum"
i think they forgot the disclaimer : "Many ants were injured while making this"
*killed
it where probably around 82 thousand killed ants
@@Dark-28200 way more. An underground system like that must be build by a super colony if ants which numbers can go up to a couple of million individuals
@@spaceant2693 yeah that's true it's kinda sad that they did this I love ants
Killed probably
I have so many questions for this guy... how long did it take the ants to create their City? How did the guy know that the colony existed? Was the colony abandoned prior to this video or did the scientists fulfill some ancient biblical Ant prophecy about the coming end of days? And do ants sleep?
He's antman. It's the only way
Great questions
2346 hours, he knows stuff, no, maybe.
Oldest ant civilization was killed that day...
Books and videos like these are made to get you to search the answer.... start searching OP
2:18 I am ant legend
One lone soldier left
that ant gonna start his batman arc
Over 10 million ant's used to live in that complex and modern Capital city
Now it's a ghost town
Equally stunning is the patience required to unearth the megalopolus. I had a carpenter ant problem a few yrs ago. I left them alone at first having a 'live and let live' philosophy, until one night to my horror I saw thousands heading into my cedar deck. I couldn't believe the damage, they riddled it with tunnels that went into my house. From that point on it was war! I spent night after night dusting them with boric acid. It took a couple of years to see the last of them. I don't know why they're called carpenter ants.. none were actual carpenters. 😄
They were musicians in a famous rock band.
@@mydogbrian4814 If they were Singers in a Rock n Roll band you'd have the Moody Blues
They make you NEED carpentry work done.
Hence the name carpenter ants.
Just kidding. 🙃
@Lazzarus Long that’s the way Brandon’s “Build Back Better” plan seems to be working.
@@jtoombs56 Much more preferred than a RINO attempting a failed coup to subvert the peaceful transition of political administrations.
Morale behind this story: if ants can design their world like this, we need to plan our lives better.
Yes, likely there hasn't been an ant Hitler, Stalin, Putin or Trump in a long, long time.
@@stevenbrucci Ant colonies are always fighting one another, just as meerkats do.
Ah! A comunist!
Trump can’t be put in the same class as those war mongols c’mon! Trump never waged war on anybody especially not innocent people.
Morale behind this: if ants can build such massive and impressive construction, fill them up with concrete and kill them all.
i could easily watch a 60 minute long documentary about this..
i need to see more!
I agreed.
For real, I need more information on this😊
@@Headloserin tha past you did? How about now? Why don't you agree now?
@@Horziniclayo shut up bru
Same, couldn't get enough of this type of videos.
Is there a full video of this?
Ant security council needs to be informed of this crime against earth dwellers
This is fantastic! It truly does look like a city. I hope this gets displayed in a museum.
Agreed, in a natural museum no less
Imagine you’re the ant worker trying to get back home, but then you see group of guys digging your ant hill
The ants that built it have left the colony
Does anyone know what happened with it? Did it get fully dugged up and removed somewhere or is the digging still ongoing?
Imagine being able to preserve a full size model of this. How far did they take it?
probably sold that thing in some art gallery for an astronomical sum of paper :D
They went as far as a massacre.
@@grasz did you cry?
@@FutureSight666 If some advanced entity did the same to us for the same reason, you'd be crying, coping and seething though right?
@@badcholesterol no because i would be suffucated and cemeted into concrete. plus we dont multiply like ants do also they are fucking bugs calm down you loser hippy
I was upset until I realized that it was abandoned, that's crazy genius how amazing that city was. Truly unbelievable! I'm more than sure I wouldn't be able to build an underground structure by just retracing my steps, I'd certainly would need some blueprints 😛
@@kusten9497 do you have any idea how stupid you sound
Ants have an IQ of 1.8 so 1.8 X (like) 1 million plus is pretty smart
There were ants there
@@centralprocessingunit2564 well i am right, they arent exactly goibg to die out
@@kusten9497 do you have any idea how stupid you sound.
Scientists: Science is about discovery, wonder and awe at the universe.
Also Scientists: Cement the hive!
Amazing... Don't know what else to say...
That thing belongs in a museum. You could tag and identify each peice and section, make a map of how every peice fits together, perhaps laser scan it for proper alignment, then break it up into manageable peices for later assembly. It would be a huge undertaking though, the support system for everything would be rather complex.
Sure.a $ 400,000 Value..Call Harry Weed..
what about a movie for this kingdom here
Yes, exactly what i think also. It would be VERY hard work to move it but worth the effort.
It would be easier to do a 3D scan, then make a copy out of plastic. Those long thin tunnels (now concrete branches) would be very fragile.
i think this belongs in the wild? untouched, without cement and with the ants in it
2:49 It is also the equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki together. Millions died in that nest
“It’s a wonder of the world!”
Also them: *Commit mass genocide by entombing 95% of the ants who made it*
...and make it look like it's normal behavior.
You wouldn't have any issues with it if this nest existed under your house. Also, "genocide" refers to people. Ants hardly qualify. Besides, there are probably a million more for every individual ant they killed with this.
@@khymaaren Way to miss the point.
@@goku445 Anything to keep my fans entertained.
"genocide", fck!
Everyone show respect to that ants hard work
indeed
Honestly
They were Republican ants. But then the Democrat ants came and they all died because they couldn't afford the taxes.
@@KB-ke3fi nah, ant disease started spreading and the republican ants didn't do shit saying "it's just a hoax"
@@sushitrash4949 You sure it wasnt because some ants wanted to be female and be called the right pronounes maybe the queen wanted to be male and so stop producing "his" species 🧐
I did pest control for nearly 19 years, I always felt a little bad when I killed social insects like ants or bees(in my defense I only killed one migrating bee hive). They're very interesting, I especially like bees they will groom a returning drones that has no pollin on it just to make it feel better and keep up moral. You can walk right up to a hive and they don't even care about you, Though the instant you get scared they can smell it and you'll set the hive on alert. Probably get stung at that point
why you love kill small furry dogs? 😥😥😥
every time you murder poor little animal jesus 💦 squirts himself 🦑🦑🦑🐙🐙🐙
@@stevenbluestone2014 oh yes
@@stevenbluestone2014 weird post
Drugs..
@Rob Arthur Drugs through the poopchute
don't you all love when keyboard warriors rage over an abandoned anthill calling it "genocide" and "they destroyed it"
if this were a still active colony you would be seeing SO MANY MORE ANTS. DO YOU REALIZE HOW MASSIVE THIS THING IS?! There would be THOUSANDS pouring out the moment the cement dripped in.
Either it's the last vestiges of an already dying colony, in which case they weren't going to live very long anyway, since ants only live a few months, or these are other ants that are investigating an abandoned colony.
These people have saved this structure from eroding away under the natural elements.
Also, even if it were inhabited, they're ANTS. There are millions of ants for every person on earth. This is not an extinction event. If anything, as I mentioned before, any colony that was still living in those tunnels was ALREADY DYING OUT.
Oh, I just thought they all died within the cement.
You killed the ants, their home, their ecosystem, under the pretence of studying them? What a shame!
Why is there only a 3 minute video about this on the internet. This is one of the most insane things we have found in nature
Other comments are saying this is just a clip from a larger documentary
@@leftyfourguns where is the larger one
I love studying ants. They’re so fascinating. My land flooded and to see these rafts of ants just floating towards the banana tree. It’s almost like they were saying. Over there, left a little.
Ants are amazing
WOW THAT WAS A BIG KINGDOM ITS TRULY FASCINATING❤❤❤❤
This might be the most advanced city-like structure made by a non human species. If not, what other species can do make stuff like this?
@Gary Smith Where might I find this octopus city?
@@lukemaunder4839 atlantis
@@lukemaunder4839 Octopus city of course
@@lukemaunder4839 In R´lyeh.
Ternites.
We really can learn a lot of subjects by studying the ant colony..no wonder my son during his younger years was very much curious and wanted to follow where the ants thrive..He is now a graduate of civil engineering..His fascination 'bout structures grew..thanks to the ants and insects around 😆
Thats wonderful!
He must be very smart and you should be proud,i would be.
now he will pour concrete into human cities to see how they do?
Can't say nothing wrong with that. My son is only 12 and he is always taking things apart to see how they function. I can only hope something good comes from it. 😆
@@americafirst6408 MAGA
Thank you for the incredible amount of time and effort to share this perspective! More footage of the final image would be very helpful!
I would love a 3d view.
Leave the ants alone
@@oneviwatara9384 ijs
@@oneviwatara9384 well said. Totally agree.
I love ant smasher 🌻🐜
Millions of ants killed all in the name of science.
Wait a minute…So they killed all those ants just to see how they were living? That’s what the aliens are gonna do to us when they get here 😂 that’ll be karma.
I was just about to comment this lol.
Imagine working your whole life to construct a astonishing build for yourself and your people and than there those griefers filling it up ich concrete
Humans: Lost city of Atlantis
Ants: *LOST CITY OF BRAZILLIAN LEAF CUTTER*
It isn't a lost city, it is a found city.
Very Interesting
Imagine living your life then all of a sudden some aliens decide to just flood you with cement
It's abandoned. Also, even if it's not, it's ants. Like the video said 'a simple organism'.
Don't give much damn, let's be honest here
@@andi2658 as if you were there to tell that it was abandoned.
@@vibhorsharma9162 I was, it was abandoned.
@@andi2658 bro you can literally see ants... Are you blind
@@ssjwes Bruh you can see the ants...
And we think we're the only intelligent animals here on this planet. That is just amazing that City that those ants built is just downright mind blowing
LuisIsGaming We aren’t intelligent. We are the only species that deliberately destroys our own habitat.
@@DavidTorres-sf2nt we don't deliberately destroy it for nothing. We do it because we have no other choice, just like every other animal.
NOW REC they had a choice in this vid
@@skivixx the ants were already gone numb nuts
@@skivixx it was an abandoned colony
My question is where did the "40 tons" of soil the ants excavated go? The hill outside the hole at the beginning looked to only be maybe 1 or 2 tons. My guess is that erosion carries most of it away as they slowly pile it up.
as they come in small partciles, wind and rain can teka care of spreading it out on the rest of the field.
@@mustavogaia2655 not to mention they didn't excavate 40 tons overnight. A colony this size probably took years of construction and further expansion.
@@ilmpyt thats the really sad thing about this, although it would have been interesting to be part of this project
Apparently you can tell the sex of an Ant by carefully placing it in water. If it sinks, girl ant. If it floats, boy ant.
Ants: "Our colony is the greatest empire! Soon we'll destroy our rivals and lead our kind to a better future!"
Humans: pouring concrete.
🗿
Imagine if they fill it with copper or aluminium? The structure would be amazing
it exists, not so big but yes, beautiful
Or gold.
would be so heavy and not solid as cement but yeah it would look sick
Incredible! Since the formal title isn't stated, the full documentary from 2004, is called 'Ants: Nature's Secret Power'.
Thanks
Now think aliens doing this to New York's underground system on rush hours.
damn, just like ants we cant talk? Wild.
😭😭😂😂
imagine if they did this to New York City's underground system after the apocalypse.
We’d probably all live
Now think like a adult instead of a 5 year old
Money spent, labor worked, a record breaking colony destroyed to appreciate the ants incredible abilities of doing what they naturally do.
The war crimes in this city didn’t happen, but they deserved it anyway and you’re a traitor for questioning it.
@@badpiggies988 I bet the ants had a place called Dresden too. I bet all their peace treaties were ignored as well. They just wanted to be left alone and not be a part of the plutocratic globalist system that now enslaves us all.
@@SeanThomasCross Or it was called Van, where totally nothing /s happened during WWI (what I was referring to)
Finally, out of all the comments saying "Oh wow!" Or joking about moving the ants, I finally find ONE that is like my mindset on how they destroyed the ant settlement just so they can look at the cast of it's remains. We've become idiots to destruction of things we wish to study, it is our destiny
@@PeefNoot0000 We are the insects. They are the earthlings.
Would love to see a longer version of this. Beautiful video. Thanks.
Amazing. Incredible feat. The ants building and the teams uncovering.
That is truly fascinating. I can't believe how big it is. We should design homes like that. Apartment complexes...
And walk on 4 legs?
You sir, might me on to something.
It would be too small for humans. Some of those corridors are too small for even an arm to fit through
@@erasgous
Well of course we'd have to utilize the downsizing technology.
@@bryanrussell6679 brilliant! That’ll work! I overlooked that in my small mindednesses
Evn when pouring cements the ants were moving around the muzzle.
And they say it was abandoned. Just so you know, ants don't abandon their colony unless it is destroyed or damaged.
it's when the queen is dead only. It's always about the females.
@Jonathan P just in case...r/whoosh
The real question is how did the cement flow so perfectly into all the small places without actually ruining the structures??
Maybe highly diluted with water, so it stayed liquid for a long time? Definitely not construction-grade cement...
@@ClintLock1 It would make sense then that they waited for a month.
Thrs cement that's lik water but it tak way longer to dry
It call mother mix
This is not mortar actually,a very thin cement mix with water
Wow ants work so hard
This colony was not that large. In the Chingola area of Zambia I have seen absolutely huge ant hills. One of my staff told me they needed to build a road across a stretch of bad ground so they took ground from an anthill. (The soil in the hill having been chemically altered by the ants it is much better than the natural ground for road building) they loaded out three hundred cubic metres of soil from the heap. I can believe it. Close to the back fence of the house we were renting as an office was a heap of enormous size, like half as big as the house. I can only imagine that the environment in that area has remained relatively stable allowing continuous occupation for centuries, perhaps Millenia. Most regular anthills that I have seen contain only 1-2 cubic metres with the bigger ones getting up to the 5-10 cubic metre size.
Don't worry guys, the ants are paid actors
Ok
I hope they were