Kidnapper Ants Steal Other Ants' Babies - And Brainwash Them | Deep Look
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- Kidnapper ants raid other ant species' colonies, abduct their young and take them back to their nest. When the enslaved babies grow up, the kidnappers trick them into serving their captors - hunting, cleaning the nest, even chewing up their food for them.
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A miniature drama is playing out on the forest floor in California’s preeminent mountain range, the Sierra Nevada, at this time of year. As the sun sets, look closely and you might see a stream of red ants frantically climbing over leaves and rocks.
They aren’t looking for food. They’re looking for other ants. They’re kidnappers.
“It’s hard to know who you're rooting for in this situation,” says Kelsey Scheckel, a graduate student at UC Berkeley who studies kidnapper ants. “You're just excited to be a bystander.”
On this late summer afternoon, Scheckel stares intently over the landscape at the Sagehen Creek Field Station, part of the University of California’s Natural Reserve System, near Truckee, California.“The first thing we do is try to find a colony with two very different-looking species cohabitating,” Scheckel says.
“That type of coexistence is pretty rare. As soon as we find that, we can get excited.”
--- How do ants communicate?
Ants mostly use their sense of smell to learn about the world around themselves and to recognize nestmates from intruders. They don’t have noses. Instead, they use their antennae to sense chemicals on surfaces and in the air. Ants’ antennae are porous like a kitchen sponge allowing chemicals to enter and activate receptors inside. You will often see ants tap each other with their antennae. That behavior, called antennation, helps them recognize nestmates who will share the same chemical nest signature.
---Can ants bite or sting?
Many ants will use their mandibles, or jaws, to defend themselves but that typically just feels like a pinch. Some ants have a stinger at the end of their abdomen that can deliver a venomous sting. While the type of venom can vary across species, many ants’ sting contains formic acid which causes a burning sensation. Some have special glands containing acid that can spray at attackers causing burning and alarming odors.
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When the ants do it, it’s like oh that’s just nature.
But when I do it I get put into jail.
Swirlo the Cato Red ants can't feed themselves but you can, you're just lazy.
@@donaldcampbell767 savage
I'm down with you Vato let's steal kids
Facts
@@yVillain I'm pretty sure those ants do know what they are doing cu they just around being lazy when ants are known to be hard workers. Lol
Kidnapping then child labor? woah. i was not ready for this amount of evil
Stephanie Leigh And after that, forcing them to regurgetate food for them.
Hey kids, if you help me get my stuff done,i'll give yoy free candy :)
The video left out how a polyergus queen starts her colony. She goes into a formica nest, kills the queen, and steals her victim's identity.
So yeah, they are the offspring of an an assassin who staged a coup.
Sounds like Africa
Doesn't that remind you of Slavery.... when the whites kidnapped the blacks. 🤣
Everyone:feeling bad for the babie ants
Me: ....how'd they
get cameras that small into the nests of ants
they have special cameras for it :)
Dragon Boi or how did they make plans to film this ordeal/event.
They couldn't have just said "action!"
its scripted
@@jesss.7788 Those Ants are paid actors
@@Random_Name_07 I agree
"am i adopted?"
"lol no, we just took u"
I was just snatched from a car
Seems legit
Technically not adoption if stolen.
automatic adoption, no paperwork necessary
@@tiramiisu0 I’d say surprise adoption
Red ants: (goes searching for random nests to steal kids)
Fire ants: *YOU CHOSE THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL!*
won't it be worse if they'll actually steal a fire ant and hang out with him? and eat from its mouth..
@@מיכאלמרקוב r/cursmedcommemntsq,omakozmwmomozmosdnwibubububmimdoddimidndond9wje9ej
@@CemeteryDriveClown you aight dog?
It's "You pick the wrong house fool!"
@Zuck Gaming Ohh i forgot😂
When I was a kid, I used to believe that red ants were bad and black ants were good. So, it was true after all.
And i still believe that red ants are little devils which they are bc first, they steal the youngins of another colony and then, bite my feet! You can't change my mind!!!
😂😂😂😂 Me too!
ME TOOOOOO
Same
Same thing
“Climbing through your window, snatching your people up... hide your kids”
This cracked me up 😂
AAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
“Hide yo wife”
@@epizzle9232 and hide yo husband
'cause they rapin' everybody out here
Hide yo kids hide yo wife
When I was a kid I used to watch these red ants carry these white stuff and walk across the walls. I thought it was pieces of rice honestly, but I can't believe I was witnessing a kidnapping and I just freaking watched. I'm such a terrible person.
Omg only now I realised tooo😧😭😭😭😭😭😭😱😱😱😱😱😱😨😭😭😭😧 I thought it was rice but hwy were too little to be rice(although I think I saw black ants tho)
Not all red ants, it's just this one specific species!!!
What would you do anyway??
I always thought they were eggs 😂
@@spiritsworld2800 it would be annoying for the queen to have a little of her larvae stolen but theyre literally basicly just being lazy when theyre queen has all the eggs 😭
So moral of the story:
*Hide yo kids, Hide yo wife*
🤣
Hide your husbands cuz their taking erbody out here
Fire ants be like: swoop, now I'm mr. StealYoGirl.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
EXACTLY~ BE A MAN.... don't do what Adam did! He did what his woman told him to do, NOT what his Creator told him to do,{cover your woman keep her out of trouble bc she likes bright n shiny objects!) THEN Adam BLAMED GOD (u gave her to me) after he got caught disobeying Him!!
“She goes back to mobilize her sisters”
*red ant goes bacc*
*HEY SISTERS*
Boy ants: excuse me what the fu-
Are those ants from Alabama?
Yúkı_UwU male ants are only produced before the neptual flight season which is when ants gather to mate. So all the workers are basically female
@@luhueychua3468 I didnt know that lol
Thanks for the info =w=
*screams*
Kidnapper Ants: Hippity Hoppity, your Child is now our property.
TheAsianInTheCorner 😂😂😂
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
😂😂
Stolen from James Charles
Casey I think that was the point
ants : living a happy, carefree life with their wives and kids
these ants : *tHAtS WEIRd, ThAts SuSpICIOUs.*
*SUS*
@@spiritsworld2800 a m o g u s
@@resurrectedhelicoprion but... Only like 2 or 3 of the queen's massive brood grow up to be queens, and even then they have to fight to the death over the throne.
@@maomaomi5434no they don’t queen ants produce hundreds of males and a bunch of queens and kick them out in nuptial flights and then they mate, the males die and the queens found their own colony through a few methods including temporary social parasitism, the claustral method or the semi-claustral method depending on species, there are also some other methods but I don’t know enough about them to discuss them properly.
@@fluffyfuchsia0 DUDUDUDUDUDUDU
TUTUTU
TAM TAM
Black Ants: "am I adopted?"
Red ants: "oh no!" what makes you think you are?"
Kemar Gordon 😂 this comment needs more likes lol.
No you are not adopted, you are kidnapped
Lol
Kemar Gordon black ant: “I’m black”
@@finjames4878 I know right😂😁
Kidnapper ants: we're ur parents now go find food
Black ants: ok
Kidnapper ants: time to binge netflix
I bet they’re watching a bugs life
LOL SO TRUE
Imagine having to tell your sister that “you were kidnapped” instead of “you were adopted”.
Sister: i'd like to know this is a joke and im just adopted
Now this is Step-Bro time!
“You were borrowed”
That’s La Rosa De Guadalupe vibes
@@Nice7Ock send me the video Link please
This takes “stranger danger” To a whole new level
"The DNA test shows: Red Ant, you are NOT the father!"
"gasp' :0
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
*Black dude lands a backflip* 🕺
@@lapis591 ty for letting me enchant
PLOT TWIST
What we hear:
*[Inaudible Sounds]*
What it actually sounds like being there:
*War Cry*
More like: its smells like war chemicals
Ants they can't hear they can feel vibrate and they communicate using chemicals
Sonny I was laying down on a blanket in the grass and heard a squeaking, I lifted up the blanket and there were a few ants. THEY SQUEAKKKK
😂😂😂 Same
@@loser6972 this is true. I remember a time when I had a plastic bag on the ground under my bed and there were a bunch of ants that had walked into the bag. I could hear them squeak due to the amplifying effect of the bag. It was very cool that I could actually hear them even after I picked up the bag
The red ants introduce themselves be like:
"WELCOME TO THE CULT"
“Everything changed when the Firenation attacked!”
@@blakebadblazilla7006 copied
@@rioannbunal copied
@@trashbag1108 copied
@@blakebadblazilla7006 copied
I am seriously curious about which evolutionary pressures could have possibly pushed for this? It's fascinating and seems like such a bizarre thing to have developed.
Evolution is random. Some behaviors or phenotypes are not perfectly specialized but just happened to work (local optimal solution). The Platypus is one example of this.
the channel Keirzgast (I probably spelt it wrong) did a video on Slaver ants which explains this exact topic. This is just in case you haven't since found your answer, ik this comment is 2 years old.
the channel Keirzgast (I probably spelt it wrong) did a video on Slaver ants which explains this exact topic. This is just in case you haven't since found your answer, ik this comment is 2 years old.
@@davidterrell1242 hi can you share it here??
Have you seen ants eating an Asian Longhorned Beetle?
th-cam.com/video/HcI1kdBAzSI/w-d-xo.html
What the heck!! I literally saw these red ants carrying white thing and i thought they were carrying food 🤣🤣 wow i was present in a crime scene 🤣
😭😭😭
there are probably thousands of species of ant that are red, and they all carry all kinds of things. Everything from their own young to pieces of food. Odds are you didn't see these particular species.
Is a joke
David Enrique did you rlly have to do her like that over ants 💀
@@davidonfim2381 it's a joke Dexter.
*"Until the young ants tried DNA test"*
So they go to Dr Phil
@FBI FBI, some red suit guys kidnapped my babies
FBI lol
😂😂😂
THEY SPIT AND STOLE MY BABIES
Son you are adopted..or stolen what ever make you the sadest
*sister
there's only one surviving parent (the queen) in ant colonies, the drones die after mating and newly molted ones leave the nest; all the workers and soldiers are all females. the only sons are drones...
@@alveolate
*Daughter
Wow!! 🤣🤣😂😂 / 🐜😩
BEN kara Mohammed Reda the only thing sad here is the sadest (Saddest)
@@imafish4840 ouch why did you do that to me are you like them ants 🐜 ? Harsh and crewl?
“It’s not a war crime if you win”
Says the biggest criminal of all. 😬🤗
"My black brothers and sisters, we must open our eyes to the tyranny of our oppressors. You may think you are their friend, but _they_ think you are their captive. You may think they are your family, but _they_ think they are your masters. You been _had._ You been _took._ You been _hoodwinked._ Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok! It is time for the black ant to wake up!" -Formicolm X
I sincerely hope that this comment gets pinned. This is really good.
AisuruMirai this is gold
LitRim1 I assure you the ant in question has been pinned somewhere
This video should be deleted, it is evidence for the creation of slavery. This is were they took the idea for.
This is GOLD
Black ant: dad... mom? Am I adopted
Red ants: we love you just the same honey
now can you go get us some food ? we are hungry.
Oh also me and your dad are EXTRA hungry, so make sure to grab us a smoothie as well
@@aakankshajohare1932 😂😂
they just enslaving them man that's depressing
All ants are female
And the only male ants are alates
These ants are straight up evil!
Comment 2 days ago. Video released today.
How dafaq is this comment 2 days old
Well youre early
TH-cam is broken again
And you are a straight up wizard
It's nice being a large vertebrate ... I only have to worry about where the nearest bear might be,
not "was I raised by bears?"
or "am I bringing siblings home for dinner?"
or (at best) "Sun's going down, gotta hide the house!"... ugh
Who said that you wouldn’t have to worried about being kidnapped or having one of your family members kidnapped? Because that’s also very much a human thing too
"Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked"
🤣🤣😭😭😭😂😂😂😂
RDCWORLD1 REFERENCE
Yass ATLA fans assemble!!!
AVATAR YEEEEESS
Antscanada fan forever
So basically
Red ants:pillagers
Black ants:villagers
My mind blown....
@FBI open up!
Minecraft!!!???
1:35
This particular species are raiders. Fire ants, red carpenter ants etc are all...villagers as you put it.
Army ants on the other hand are outright genociders woooooot wooooot
Best Minecraft joke ever
This is the first time I've heard a specie of ants who doesnt want to work but wants others to work for them. I thought they embody the essence of diligence and hard work.
They do work hard. It's just that their methods are... well, a bit macabre I suppose
Hey! It’s hard work kidnapping baby ants! Do you even know how much we spend on therapy? It is a mentally and physically demanding job!
nah bro thats japan
Their Queen is literally an assassin which kills the queen of another ant colony and take it's identity and over a month the original ant colony will be filled with her own ants
Sounds like capitalism
Now I know they “don’t recognize each other by sight, they use smell” but I feel like after a couple of raids and seeing what the red ants do you’d start to piece things together.
It’d make an interesting movie tho.
YES
Those are ants, they aren't known to be very bright.
But yes, that sounds like a cool dystopian novel.
They have like 10 000 neurons what did you expect.
A Bug's Life 2: Dulosis Boogaloo
It could make a very cool kids movie.
"Am I adopted?"
Ants: 👀
😊🤣😂😂
black ant: hey man i am red right?
red ant: *smothering the black one in his spit*
red ant: sure vro, why?
Ants : and i oop-👀
666 likes
That's not funny i'm adopted
We need amber alerts for ants this is a serious matter at hand
@Jola Adegbite lol I got the joke
It's even funnier cuz I could see Steve Smith from AD actually saying that in an episode. 😂
@@jollybear_wastaken i mean they pretty much already look amber colored, no need to call it something else
@@naughtspellswright 😂
Rule number one of a robbery: don't get antsy
Well played.
This Comment Deserves All The Likes
Tooth Frame You, sir, won the internet for today 👏
@Tooth Frame
Oh hi there, Tim!
Tooth Frame i’m ur 1k no plz ignore this.
Red ant: "The time has come... execute order 66."
Black ant: "Yes my lord."
*Starts attacking fellow black ants*
The movie when your alone: 0:56
The movie when your parents walk in: 3:50
😂😂 ⚰️
I swear!
*You're**
@@WillBill6143 your*. It's not you are parents, it's your parents.
@@PeechyKeen no for the first sentence
“Everything changed when the fire nation attacked”
AVATAR
Do I see an AntsCanada reference?
OMFGGGGG
@@isayoof No you see an avatar reference
Stolen comment
Kidnapper Ants : *steals ants*
Bullet Ants : *Nice Try.*
*_stronk_* *_attacc_* *_?_*
Imagine trying to steal a child twice the size of you
*Bullet ant takes out a glock*
Can even kidnappers ants even defend themself???
This channel is one of my favourite TH-cam channels and immensely affected my worldview. Thank you!!
That is terrifying. Like there isn't enough scary stuff out there trying to hurt ants. They also have to deal with entrance demon versions of their own species.
3:46 i saw that a couple times happening in school and i just thought they were kissing and i thought "wow, even ants can find love!"
Such a child brain it's beautiful 😭
@@sussyrenz982 lul wut. Girl? Insta - bloody_impact_xt
Ants can find love, and yet, I'm still single
Yea why can’t you?
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
wow, that's the most lazy species of ants I ever seen. lol
Unless it's kidnapping they dont laze around in that kind of work xD
This comment deserves to be at the top
Just like cuckoo bird. Lazy to build their own nest and their young who hatched in another bird's nest push away another young.
they just too hardworking on kidnapping around.
Kidnapping isnt easy
Depends on how many you are
"My sweet little ant... I have something to show you..."
"What is it?"
*Rubs colony smell off of the ant*
*Gasp* "YOU... YOU LIED TO MEEE!!!"
When the brainwashed ants invade the same species colonies
The non brainwashed ants: Peter, stop, stop its me
Ey eyeyey, its me Carl chill chill
😭😭
The brainwashed ants attacking the normal ones: I had a father. He was a red ant.
“Antikin! We were sisters Antikin! You were supposed to destroy them not join them!”
Edit: changed it to Antikin
"Godspeed Ant-Man."
"...oh."
Black Ant: Daddy, if you’re red, shouldn’t I be red too?
Red Ant: Not now son, get to work. This colony won’t build itself!
The dads been along dead
Nature: I’m bored...
Also Nature: Let’s make animal know how to kidnap young for fun, so I can’t be bored anymore.
ha
that's a lot of fun being literally mute and unable to chew your food
Mood
Din Joekhannaz God doesn’t exist. It’s Mother Natures Earth you delusional fool.
Anthony Pabon XD
"Can I borrow some of your kids yeah?"
Damm i seriously though that they where ganne be like: "It's a raid. Talking about raids! Raid: Shadow Legends........"
Why is this funny to me 🤣
Tired of these raid ads
Facts!
“Start now for free”
No
So,...what I’m hearing is that ants 🐜 invented slavery. Gotcha.
Finally someone else does it
Huh
Okay, my comment is gone ?
American history
SAINT POOL Yep 👍
“The scout ant spots them and rushes back to mobilize her sisters”
The scout ant: ok girls so here’s the tea
*lip smack*
Mmm girl let's go get those juicy babies!!
"*mum am i adopted?*"
"*no, your a mandatory volunteer.*"
😂
This is Stockholm syndrome in a different level.
ArchEnema 67 ?
You could say they are adopted slaves
I thought in Stockholm syndrome you felt empathy for your captures.. It seems like the captured ants dont even know they were captured
Similar to what happened in Africa by colonists
@@scarmsaniiaggrey1646 you mean what Turks did to east Europeans.
And Africans did to Spain and Italie?
I remember seeing a bunch of ants scurry over the ground with pupae in their mouth when I was a kid and being like: they eat rice too! 🤦🏻♀️ 😂
@Anna Dorozynski what
@Anna Dorozynski you cant r/wooosh somebody who made the joke
@Anna Dorozynski thats ok, but the name is r/wooosh, the *wooosh* means the person almost reach the joke, but dint get it
@Anna Dorozynski he doesn't know what he's doing but he's got the spirt
@Anna Dorozynski yo if you don't want more of these comments saying 'that's not how r/whooosh works' or etc., you might wanna delete that comment
Me at 3 a.m: *i should go to sleep*
TH-cam: hey wanna see ants kidnapping ants?
*"eh who needs sleep anyway"*
Lol
jusq
3 am 😳 I'm watching.
Literally me right now at 3AM
Me rnnnnn
2:36 Props to the cameraman, he invented a shrink ray just to record the inside of the nest. 👏👏
When i was younger. I thought the whites they cary was rice.
Well they will take rice if they et some.
OMG SAME..
true
Me too. Little did I know that a kidnapping was in progress.
That’s a funny assumption 😂
Others : see red ants stealing babies
What I see : *world war ant*
That's true what your seeing in this video is War, an endless war. The war will never end and never die, every ant colony will fight and kill until the last colony stands. Hope you enjoyed reading this reply!
I want a game on this- WWA - World War Ant
😂😂😂😂😂
Me: sees this
Also me: *BURSTS INTO LAUGHTER*
@@arashi8876 There is already game play "the ants" its available on mobile
No one:
Absolutely no one:
TH-cam: wanna see some ant kidnappings.
yes.
*yes*
Yes plz
One of the most overused copy/paste comments on TH-cam. Keep it up.
@@A7xFo 501 likes
I remember torturing the red ants because I believed the red ants are bad and black ants are good so it's just a little revenge
Because red ants can be fire ants and bite you. I think we were all told to watch out for them.
How’d u torture
@@junyah4152 ikd his method but I used to trap ants in a water maze
It's not good or bad by the way. It's their nature. Even i did the same as you when i was a child and received scoldings from my parents.
I never killed ants as a kid because I thought they would swarm me like in Indiana Jones 4
Actual Thing: a close up on bug life
What I see: *reality, murder mystery, and other good shows/things*
Idk why but I found it funny when she said telling her sisters and then all of them came along😂😂😂
Plot twist: Maybe it was James Charles?
James Charles: Hey sisters~
😂
well all ants are females, the only male ants happen when a colony is ready to reproduce, and they die right after fertilizing the new queens.
@@derpychicken2131 thank God I am a human
@@minecraftstation6422 same lol
@@pebuzeey6627 aaaaaaaa 😲
Pastor in church:
"Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:"
Congregants : which ones?
I thought of this verse while I was watching this..
Luvuyo Booi best comment!! Lol
He'll reply black, but in practice it's the red.
As a kid I thought the red ants were shifting their homes and so wonderfully carrying their eggs with them now I feel duped by the gruesome spectacle of nature
"The kidnappers are only good for one thing: Grabbing young aunts"
Take it back! Take it back! How to unread to unhear it 😂😂😂
Dasherr, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
@@blurbleberrypie1610 E v e r y t h i n g 👁️ 👄 👁️
No... Why.. no......
Jokes on you. That's not how I pronounce it.
Narrator: It’s a raid!
Me: Pillagers are raiding the village!!!
YES
Kidnapper ants when they find a nest: “FBI OPEN UP!”
They pull a reverse FBI
Ohh no
Someone should make a movie about this. Like a black ant discovers that theyre not one of the red ants and they're being enslaved. And so the black ant forms this group of other enslaved black ants and fight back in rebellion against the red ants.
For obvious reasons, I love this episode! Polyergus ants rock! Dr. Trager has done some amazing research on them! ❤🐜
I want you to keep them
Surprised he doesn’t have a lot of likes, being a popular TH-camr and all.
I don't think those kinds of ants would be easy to take care of in captivity. They are called kidnapper ants for a reason
@@LunaTheAngel917 If they could possibly be self sufficient without kidnapping, then he could keep them.
@@LunaTheAngel917 He could put brood from other colonies into the kidnapper ant’s territory.
Ants Canada: *laughs nervously*
lol, i was thinking of the same thing.
He is wondering how to collect some and create a terrarium for them lol .
@@Aaron_leonard LOL, he's just thinking on how innocent and perfect ants are.
Uh ahaha
Sub36 “I’m in danger.”
1:14
Black Ant: Tf are you doing here?
Red Ant: *Nothing much*
Deep Worm has such quality content I am amazed!!! Thanks a ton and you gotta have many more subscribers and views!
*Me at 3:00 A.M. going to sleep*
TH-cam: Wanna see ants kidnapping babies?
My brain: I don't need sleep I need answers.
Jay Estil you stole someone else's comment
This is blatantly stolen
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bs
@@amysamydamy1343 omg it is just a comment yo will probably never see them again
Me: Let's think of something *logical* on how they get to record this rare event.
My Brain: *Those Ants Were Paid Actors.*
Boot : *i'm about to ruin this man's whole career*
Souvanh Chansavang what man
Stomp stomp stomp.....its feel satisfying
A really relaxed explanation of horrific things.
People’s Shoes: *“Let Us Introduce ourselves”*
Next thing they'll all crawl up your legs
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Kidnapper Ants: Karma,Human
Anteater: *Guten tag*
Ken Kaneki *allow us to introduce ourselves*
Pleased to meet you;
I can guess your game.
DANGIT JHONNY YOU LEFT THE FRONT DOOR OPEN
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Lol
I love her narration. It is animated & fun to listen to. One of the best I've heard.
Agree, she could narrate someone doing their grocery shopping and it’d still be engaging.
@@_JoyceArt So... You're saying Lauren is the female version of Morgan Freeman?
Is it animated? No, can't you differentiate between animated and non-animated?
Very professional voice acting. Right tone, accent, enthusiasm, intonation. 10/10
Cademan Caden Sir David Attenborough is better.
This takes "your adopted" to a whole other level
omg I remember when I was younger and in kindergarden I used to help the red ants digging because I thought they were searching for food or something i-
hirishoo owo well unless you went to school in Mexico, they weren’t kidnappers
Imagine being born and having the choice of either starving or becoming a kidnapper.
Noah Smith Right Right sorry
lol
Flarbargason they can be found in California’s sera Nevada mountains, it doesn’t exactly mean they live in Mexico.
Human watches video:
Omg so bad
Ants: Yeah where have I seen that before
Mutualism with aphids: *NO*
Mutualism with caterpillars: *NO*
Mutualism with any insect that can give you liquid food: *NO*
Kidnapping other ant to give liquid: *YES*
Selfish nature!!
Grow and feed others without dignity!
Or, make other bound to feed you with dignity!
The fact that this is even a viable survival strategy in the first place is amazing to me, ants are something else
Others: Talking about the ants
Me: Are those ants paid actors?
*Y E S*
What do they get paid with?
Marcos :'v probably some foods
@@efthalia6624 makes sense :v
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Congrats on your 100th episode DL! :)
1:27 This is what the Area 51 raid would have looked like.
And the lil white baby ants are in place of aliens? 👽
Yes, we raiders will turn into kidnapping ants and steal all the young aliens to work for us
This shows that hard work and diligence will get your colony raided, you got to game the game to have others work for you.
Barbari-ant General: "What is best in life?"
Con-ant: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!"
but the worker ants are all women
I see your tawog reference
@@zxvcsaw Yes that's why they are the ones lamenting, it's all right there in the quote.
Things like this interest me! Keep up the awesome work! ❤️❤️
Right when I told myself: ah imagine if those ants could enslave those younglings instead of eating them. A few seconds later you mention this. That's just awesome that this channel doesn't just show "cool" stuff but... "awesome" stuff instead !
I Watched The Zombie Fly Video And now I love this Channel
So this is why kids call red ants as bad ants. I guess kids never lie.
JOHN RANQUE , my brother calls red ants bad because he eats black ants and one time he tried it with a red ant and it burned him (he did that when he was very young)
@@samishaniyy f i r e a n t s
@@samishaniyy it's good to try something new sometimes LOL
Red ants bites while black ants just sprays acid,
@@alstbond1379 yeah one time a black ant clawed on my thumb
Hard to believe this is all happening in a span of 10ft lol
I love these! I have witnessed this myself in the wild. It was a different species, but really similar behaviour. The species was Formica Sanguinea if anyone was wondering...
Btw congrats on your 100th video!
AntsFinland hello AntsGreece here btw
@@user-yj4qz5lo6k Yeah I know who you are by now xD
Formica sanguinea... so blood ant. Fits their behavior
@@mattgianni8688 Yeah those! I even kept them as pets.
I thought i was watching an action thriller, literally got goosebumps in raid time
Kidnapper Ant: "Navin, it's your birthday, and it's time you knew. You're not our natural-born child."
Navin: "I'm not? You mean I'm gonna STAY this color?"
BootsandUtes Colin Kapernick has entered the chat.
This raid is more epic than area 51 raid😂😂
A couple things to add, I first heard of these called "slaver ants". Second, I also heard that the enslaved ants sometimes revolt.
Oh really? (The rebellion part) Do tell!
@@meme-hz1mq It's been so long I don't recall where it was, but I remember hearing that the enslaved ants would get tired of working constantly & start destroying their enslavers' brood. Maybe there'd also be some direct fighting. I'd imagine there's probably actual research into it.
This is one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen