@@Raison_d-etre I don't see a reason why it would happen tho. And even if they would get bigger they wouldn't be very strong so i wouldn't worry too much.
no, it was pinned, those ants KNEW exactly what they are doing. it had one chance to run. one large ant is more than enough for a full grown mantis to be immobilised. they know to bite nerves and they are very strong too
In terms of scale, this is pretty much the equivalent of you going hunting, and you catch a squirrel, but then all of a sudden you’re swarmed by squirrels until they literally bite your head off
Take your time and Dig the hole first. Lime, rocks, concrete then cover completely. Have some old leaves to dump on the spot so they can’t see the fresh dirt. Unfortunately, you’ll probably get caught anyway, just too much forensics and technology to overcome now days.
Yea I didn't quite understand that. Is it poisonous to eat, or is it just a threat when it's alive? If it's the latter than there's no need to bury him in the first place.
@@Themurderin its both. if alive, the millipede endangers the convoi by distracting it and blocking its path, and if they kill i and dont bury it, its possible some smaller ants without the good sensors still carry it back to the nest, possibly killing the larvae.
I was more surprised at the fact that it flipped over so easily. Bruh you have a million fuckin legs how do you trip? You did the one thing I thought you had under control.
These are the red ants too. I hate them mofos. I promise you ants can kill even lions man Idk how they’ll do it but one ant being squashed by a lion might
@@thebidstar26 these are driver ants only found in forests. All red ants are not fire ants. Also, driver ants are free pest control for farmers of Africa. They happily let them walk through the farms.
@@MaskOfCinder Pretty much, they're as intelligent as a flow chart. Our smart phones are probably at the stage where they are can perform more calculations per second.
@@MaskOfCinder It's a swarm intelligence. They're... uhm, different, than ours. Like a set or collection of algorithms forming a mesh of independent behavior patterns that work in tandem, thanks to evolution spanning millions upon millions of years. Swarm intelligences are interesting in terms of emergent phenomena. But to anyone else reading this, no it's no substrate for consciousness. Consciousness requires more centralized control and a more clear hierarchical structure of function, which swarm intelligences don't allow. One behavior pattern doesn't override others via feedback systems in a swarm intelligence, which is something we know is required for consciousness to arise. But intelligence can exist without consciousness, so there's that.
It's amazing that ants actually know how to identify poison insects and dispose of them. How could insect intelligence process something like that? It's really amazing.
Ant intelligence is weird. Think of ants not as individuals, but more like each ant as a nerve cell, able to send signals to the colony. These signals dictate how the ants perceive and react to the world around them. An individual ant is going to be killed and picked off by the mantis, but by releasing chemicals and pheromones upon its death, it creates a response in the swarm that tells soldier ants “threat here, eliminate it”. Basically the entire colony is one big brain, with individuals being small sensory receptors that process information and react to that info accordingly
@@myrmiciex1889 I get, but to do such advanced things such as recognizing what poison is (let alone recognizing which food sources are poison) and recognizing the need to safely dispose of poison food sources to protect everyone else is almost human-like.
@@TheStapleGunKid ikr, plus they don't just dispose of it, they actually grab mud and bury it so that future/other ants don't get miscommunicated and get poisoned, not knowing which poisonous insect the pheromones are alerting them of!!! Astounding!
If it wasn't poisonous they would've eaten it. Its funny because if this documentary was done a couple of decades back the narrator would say the ants were being empathetic and practicing some kind of ant religion 😭
@@jadibdraws Scientist have been studying and documenting behavior of ants for way too long. It's called Myrmecology and been on for at least two centuries. Ants are one of the best studied species in fact out in the wild.
Honestly a brutal life is just par for the course for anything that isnt/doesn't live with humans, and even if they do there's still a chance they'll suffer anyway
It would more like "Martha". All worker and soldier ants are sterile females - indeed, that's the case for pretty much all social insects. There's the queen who can lay eggs, one or more males whose sole purpose is to mate with the queen, and the rest of the colony are either sterile females or would-be queens.
Narrator; The millions of interlocking ants that make up the nest's superstructure create an impenetrable barrier. Cameraman:. "if I could just squeeze by you for a second. Yeah, just got work to do"
I used to see a few Mantis's at my old work and they were pretty big and a little scary, but this just shows that there are some things not even a boogeyman of the bug world can fight off.
"butchering it with surgical precision" I don't want to get a surgery anywhere close to where the narrator's from if that's how precise the surgeons are
@@latoyaglvr check your research oh inferior one. "There are three kinds of ants in a colony: The queen, the female workers, and males. The queen and the males have wings, while the workers don't have wings. The queen is the only ant that can lay eggs. The male ant's job is to mate with future queen ants and they do not live very long afterwards."
Yeah it does look like it! I think it was crying because of the poison. It's a war cry, and because of the poison, I think that's the point of showing their head and antennae pop up.
I’ve been seeing videos of Mantis killing and eating birds, fish, lizards, snakes it’s good to see the tiniest creatures nerfing that killing machine. Balance
Such amazing species ants are. I never thought much of them tbh but their intelligence and teamwork is so powerful it can be scary. I honestly thought the Mantis would have survived, but I was totally wrong.
They had to bring the mantis down. Especially if the driver ants are transporting their queen. Her life would have be in serious danger, and if she dies, the entire colony dies with her. She is the heart and lifeblood of her entire family.
if ants we're to be big like a size of a rat then our humanity will find a way to make those ants in our food chain just because ants are a lot cleaner than rat yet ants are smaller compare to rats.
ants can actually be cute seeing them work together you'll realise that they are just like us working for life, it can be scary but... that's what nature is ( thank you for making this video BCC Earth your videos are entertaining and knowledgable )
@@schizophrenic_rambler the ant at 1:42 seems individually intelligent though. I thought they would just have killed the mantis by stupid swarming alone, loosing mamy ants in the process.
Narrator: *The millions of interlocking ants that makes up the nests super-structure are an impenetrably barrier* Camera Man: I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that
Love how these ants will bury their problems, even though it's a couple lumps of soil and they call it a day. Ants: aight ladies we're good, let's kill more bugs
1:42 Oh my God This is why I find insects disgusting but at the same time I am amazed by them There is a while world so small and right underneath our feet
poor mantis? Bruh right now this moment there is probably a hyena eating a baby wilderbeast of a lion eating a Buffalo or a male elephant killing a baby elephant
@@RatedRana Mantises are weird, they rarely escape from anything even it means their death. I saw plenty of mantis taunting humans at picnic tables lol
A beautiful and monstruos thing to behold. This is the kind of nature documentaries that I like: smoothly narrated, with soft and subtle music (unlike most of the silly scores usually used) and a sense of wonder at Life’s mysteries.
Driver Ants are fantastically complex. They seem to know how to deal with things in a very individually specific, purposeful way. They've micromanaged everything to near perfection.
reminder that the mantis has one of the best eyes in the insect world, he was seeing all that in 4k
So he saw his death in 4K 🤣
Lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
😂😂😂💯
He literally got caught in 4k
Imagine eating a granola bar then your granola bar calls for reinforcements and they all rip your head off.
No. Just... if this were Reddit, I'd say "Take your upvote and get the fuck out."
But this is UA-cam. So take your like and get the fuck out
🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😂😂
This post was made by the living food gang
Im eatin a Chewy granola bar at this moment & its worth being attacked by granolas
Sounds like something out of Farside.
I'm so glad that ants are the size they are
EDF: tell me about it.
if ants would get bigger they would get crushed under their own weight.
@@Luc-1991 It could adapt. Other insects got really huge hundreds of millions of years ago when the atmosphere was richer in oxygen.
@@Raison_d-etre I don't see a reason why it would happen tho. And even if they would get bigger they wouldn't be very strong so i wouldn't worry too much.
@@Luc-1991 It wouldn't happen now, because we've bacteria that digest wood.
Mantis didn't seem too bothered being eaten alive. He was just like "ah well, my future wife would have done the same thing to me anyways"
no, it was pinned, those ants KNEW exactly what they are doing.
it had one chance to run.
one large ant is more than enough for a full grown mantis to be immobilised.
they know to bite nerves and they are very strong too
Do you know what a joke is
You live by the Mantis code, you die by the Mantis code.
That's why ppl like you got picked on in HS
why does everyone have an @ before their username?
Props to the ant who filmed inside of the nest!
haha
I guess that's Ant-Man's part time job.
The praying mantis head was actually a spy cam
You’re dumb af it wasn’t the ant cause ants can’t film. Lmfao I’m just meming but for real how tf do they record the ants lmao
The Ant’s last name is Snowden. 😎
In terms of scale, this is pretty much the equivalent of you going hunting, and you catch a squirrel, but then all of a sudden you’re swarmed by squirrels until they literally bite your head off
And theres a few dog sized squirrels that have massive jaws that just rip you in half
You got 100 likes because your 💯.
pretty sure I've had a nightmare like that
You fucked with squirrels Morty!
But imagine squirrel colonies who could defeat an entire pack of wolves.
One minute your chillin out, having a snack, the next minute you're being decapitated. Such is life.
Yeah just ask Kanye
The praying mantis, praying didn't save this mantis.
Of course they don't really pray, they're just called that because it looks like they're praying.
By the snack
@@alvexok5523 Its surprising how much this applies to religious communities around the world as well.
@@bronzejourney5784 So praying for 500$ wont get me 500$?
“They gather lumps of mud and bury the problem”
Wish I could do that with all my problems
You can. That's why we have carpets. Mud is messy.
🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😂
Nah blud straight violated him 💀
😂😂😂😂
Take your time and Dig the hole first. Lime, rocks, concrete then cover completely. Have some old leaves to dump on the spot so they can’t see the fresh dirt.
Unfortunately, you’ll probably get caught anyway, just too much forensics and technology to overcome now days.
Ants: Call an ambulance...
Mantis: :)
Ants: *But not for me*
Mantis: :(
Ambalamps
That was a suicide ant.
They planned that the whole time lol
@@livelystone9367
Ant: *choking through blood* yes, for the empire
AmbulaANTS were called, alright...
@@EagleHawk175 They should’ve preyed harder
why is nobody talking about the millipede at the beginning, like
*evolves to become poisonous so it doesn't get eaten*
ants: *slaughter it anyways*
Yea I didn't quite understand that. Is it poisonous to eat, or is it just a threat when it's alive? If it's the latter than there's no need to bury him in the first place.
@@Themurderin its both. if alive, the millipede endangers the convoi by distracting it and blocking its path, and if they kill i and dont bury it, its possible some smaller ants without the good sensors still carry it back to the nest, possibly killing the larvae.
I was more surprised at the fact that it flipped over so easily. Bruh you have a million fuckin legs how do you trip? You did the one thing I thought you had under control.
@@kefiksprite13 underrated comment bro 😅
@@kefiksprite13 he ate too many cheetos man don't blame him
The mantis seemed fairly relaxed about the proceedings.
He was like "ah well, gotta take the good with the bad"
state of shock
No, being beheaded is not relaxing. Nice try ant.
Mantis: I have no regrets
He got confused and wasn't sure if he was eating or being eaten!
The dying ant's signal --- "avenge me brothers"
Well, sisters. Ant workers are female. All the males do is provide sperm for new queens IIRC.
And sisters.
Their actually all girls
I think the worker ants are all non-procreating females.
It's mostly sisters tho
Mantis: *I knew my head would be decapitated but not like this*
Lol.... Died a virgin I guess
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Btw, that's a female.
@@bensoncheung2801 how to you know?
@@Squilliam-Fancyson On Google, male mantises are noticeably smaller and thinner than females.
That's the first time I have seen any insect grabbing a mantis by jaws.
ikr
ants are ballsy
Fascinating deduction of risk and reward….Ants continue to resonate awe with me…”
The ant cartel takes no prisoners
Ants are amazing. An ant is the only bug I would root for against a mantis
Grabing a bull by its horns. meh
Biting a mantis in the jaws. real shit
For REAL.
Sure, but let me see you get that bull, haha.
Watch a man wrestle a bull to the ground.
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I'd say biting a mantis in the jaws is the ant equivalent of grabbing a bull by it's horns for a human.
It's not for the faint of heart!
@@Moldylocks what a madlad ant
Mantis came for dinner but became the main course real quick.
Mantis: Kills Ant
Ants: You have yee'd your last haw.
It was not even able to kill the ant. If you look closely, mantis had to throw it. Ant either stung or bit.
This comment is amazingly fantasticly fantastic !
These are the red ants too. I hate them mofos. I promise you ants can kill even lions man Idk how they’ll do it but one ant being squashed by a lion might
@@thebidstar26 these are driver ants only found in forests. All red ants are not fire ants. Also, driver ants are free pest control for farmers of Africa. They happily let them walk through the farms.
That reaction to the poisonous insect was incredible, ants are truly impressive when it comes to their intelligence
It *bugs* me that they implied the millipede was an "insect". It is an arthropod for sure, but it is no insect.
They are so intelligent they can be confused into crawling in a circle until they die
It’s not really intelligence. More like instinctual reactions to chemical signals.
@@MaskOfCinder Pretty much, they're as intelligent as a flow chart. Our smart phones are probably at the stage where they are can perform more calculations per second.
@@MaskOfCinder It's a swarm intelligence. They're... uhm, different, than ours. Like a set or collection of algorithms forming a mesh of independent behavior patterns that work in tandem, thanks to evolution spanning millions upon millions of years. Swarm intelligences are interesting in terms of emergent phenomena. But to anyone else reading this, no it's no substrate for consciousness. Consciousness requires more centralized control and a more clear hierarchical structure of function, which swarm intelligences don't allow. One behavior pattern doesn't override others via feedback systems in a swarm intelligence, which is something we know is required for consciousness to arise. But intelligence can exist without consciousness, so there's that.
Ants: Kill millipede
That one soldier being Remy: Wait a sec this shit is poisonous
Ants: *_B U R Y T H E P R O B L E M_*
your profile picture reminds me of a element that came from a roblox game called "elemental battleground" or i might just mistaken ur profile.
@@Purelax isn't it Batman's logo ? :D
@@gilmourwanabe2958 exactly who could for get that
Meanwhile in Fukushima. ...
Humans: Wait a sec this shit is radioactive
....
Also Humans: Let's dump it into the ocean
@Vaelthyr from a movie called ratatouille I think
Nothing can beat team work you mess with one ant you mess with 1000s brutal
That mantis was in disbelief he couldn't take those ants right up until the moment his head popped off.
well he died trying🤣
Her ex-boyfriend: "Doesn't feel too good when it happens to you, now does it?"
This is the comment of the day 😹😹😹😹
Took me a solid moment haha but good one
Yeah but if she killed her exboyfriend THEN HOW CAN HE SAY THAT?!
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@@ltsallwood Okay Buzz Killington, through a bug medium of course.
‘The mantis’ fate is sealed by a clinical decapitation’
Cue cheerful music
It's amazing that ants actually know how to identify poison insects and dispose of them. How could insect intelligence process something like that? It's really amazing.
Ant intelligence is weird. Think of ants not as individuals, but more like each ant as a nerve cell, able to send signals to the colony. These signals dictate how the ants perceive and react to the world around them. An individual ant is going to be killed and picked off by the mantis, but by releasing chemicals and pheromones upon its death, it creates a response in the swarm that tells soldier ants “threat here, eliminate it”. Basically the entire colony is one big brain, with individuals being small sensory receptors that process information and react to that info accordingly
@@myrmiciex1889 I get, but to do such advanced things such as recognizing what poison is (let alone recognizing which food sources are poison) and recognizing the need to safely dispose of poison food sources to protect everyone else is almost human-like.
I was Thinking the same thing
@@TheStapleGunKid ikr, plus they don't just dispose of it, they actually grab mud and bury it so that future/other ants don't get miscommunicated and get poisoned, not knowing which poisonous insect the pheromones are alerting them of!!! Astounding!
@@myrmiciex1889 Yes, we watched the video.
The serial "decapitator" became the "decapitatee"..... *nature*
Good point, but I also feel bad for the mantis because it's a really interesting insect too
good one ☝️ lol!!!
The mantis thought he was just going to have a little snack.
Instantly thought of space balls
@@fabiana7157 no ..good for him
That Mantis didn't even have the time to digest the Ant that it had just eaten. Brutal death.
Live by the sword die by the sword lol
How kind of those ants to give the millipede a proper burial 🙏
If it wasn't poisonous they would've eaten it. Its funny because if this documentary was done a couple of decades back the narrator would say the ants were being empathetic and practicing some kind of ant religion 😭
I'm actually surprised he didn't given the state of the world today
Poor guy didn't do anything
Yet they didn’t bury the mantis
@@jadibdraws Scientist have been studying and documenting behavior of ants for way too long. It's called Myrmecology and been on for at least two centuries. Ants are one of the best studied species in fact out in the wild.
I hate driver ants, but it was still kind of cool how they buried the millipede like they made their own funeral for him
“Impenetrable fortress” except for the camera man.
Never see this
Pretty sure it’s just a lot of zoom
@@kmm9035 but you can see the ants climb on and maneuver out of the camera's way
It's probably on a mechanical arm to avoid
being bitten
@@netrider5 it was a joke
I'm so glad I wasn't born as a insect. What a brutal life it would be.
Honestly a brutal life is just par for the course for anything that isnt/doesn't live with humans, and even if they do there's still a chance they'll suffer anyway
24/7 war!
Don't worry, you will be next life.
@@israelcazares6975 reincarnation doesn't happen
@@RaperOfPredators and you know this how?
The ants: "Well, well, well. How the turns have tabled"
How the turntables*
What? Lmao
@@evalzeyn9730 is a joke from The Office, funny episode
Praying Mantis: gets brutally decapitated
The music: 😇🪽😄
2:19
Thanos: You should have gone for the -
Ants:
So amazing
Kinda fucked up bud
So thats how antman wins
@@solarlaw1421 If you think about it Antman really was the reason Thanos lost. All the events in Endgame happened because of him, or maybe a rat.
Ants: we got for eveything
Dead Ant: Need back up
Ants : He killed Marty.... Cut his head off Bois.
is that a refrences to a movie ? or u just made it up casue itn felt funny to me
It would more like "Martha". All worker and soldier ants are sterile females - indeed, that's the case for pretty much all social insects. There's the queen who can lay eggs, one or more males whose sole purpose is to mate with the queen, and the rest of the colony are either sterile females or would-be queens.
skulls for the skull throne!
Ants together strong 💪
Narrator; The millions of interlocking ants that make up the nest's superstructure create an impenetrable barrier.
Cameraman:. "if I could just squeeze by you for a second. Yeah, just got work to do"
I read your pfp... I'm waiting
I read ur pfp too... I am waiting
Many licks needed
and then the cameraman was also clinically decapitated.
*cameraant
I used to see a few Mantis's at my old work and they were pretty big and a little scary, but this just shows that there are some things not even a boogeyman of the bug world can fight off.
"butchering it with surgical precision"
I don't want to get a surgery anywhere close to where the narrator's from if that's how precise the surgeons are
Ikr, they practically chewed off the head leaving a jagged mess and he calls it "clean", tf 😑
It's worthless poetry. The writer should stick to describing what's happening.
Y’all, did you not see how clean that head came away? It was basically just like pulling apart Lego!! I’d call that pretty surgical!!
Clinical decapitation 😂😂😂😂 these little guys are truly efficient
👍
Lol
Correction: little girls. They are all female.
@@latoyaglvr "little guys" to me means unisex and to someone who feels inferior can mean only guys.🤔
@@latoyaglvr check your research oh inferior one.
"There are three kinds of ants in a colony: The queen, the female workers, and males. The queen and the males have wings, while the workers don't have wings. The queen is the only ant that can lay eggs. The male ant's job is to mate with future queen ants and they do not live very long afterwards."
0:15 Now that's a war cry after defeating enemy.
Yeah it does look like it! I think it was crying because of the poison. It's a war cry, and because of the poison, I think that's the point of showing their head and antennae pop up.
So nice of the ants to give a proper burial for the millipede
Can we appreciate the work that has been put in, to show us how it looks inside such a ant-nest-structure?
Yeah, those shots are amazing
Right, it's truly amazing
appreciate it then you don’t have to always comment could we appreciate it so you could get a lot of likes terrible 🤦♂️
@@Sergio-kd9wm What?
Not real at all
Mantis: kill ant
Ants: *your free trial of living has expired.*
Why does this mantis hate me? :(
🤣🤣
I just come to read comments.
No. The ant stung the mantis and escaped. Look 1:15
@Kris Walsh hi there. Would you like to sign my petition?
2:08 that’s when he knew he fucked up.
It has always fascinated me seeing ant work together the strength in there numbers is amazing
*Mantis about to be decapitated:*
_“...that's kinda hot though.”_
*Ants:*
_“Bruh.”_
Cringe..so funny..
Mantis and ant hentai when
Mantis: "Jokes on you, I'm into that sh*t."
Reminds me of that one hot decapitation doujin i've read
@@kimbaldun nice
Well that was enough nightmare fuel for a terrible night’s sleep. Goodnight UA-cam!
How was ur nighy?
The title does say pain. Hope your sleep was k though
@@Love-jf7rs i m about to sleep..thx
@@Conway1 Bless you safety from nightmare then
sweet dreams
The taste of your own medicine
So amazing
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They got her good lol
Its just all a game
Advantage and disadvantage
Pls give me salvation without dying like a pig
Mantis: "I will F you all up bois!"
Ant's: "We will drink from your skull! Take his head bois!"
It s incredible..and those microcameras are amazing
❤️❤️❤️
Mini cameraman*
And we cannot forget about cameraant Dave
Mantis: It sucks to be eaten by your own food.
Ah yes, "the ants have come, even the wasps have to abandon their nest"
The Mantis is an apex killer in the bug world but as we all know, doesn't matter how tough you are there is always someone tougher!
They aren't tougher, just more numerous.
1 deathly blow vs million cuts
1:33 this 'all you can eat' buffet is heavenly..... mm hang on a minute????
Ants are so amazing. Their strength and ability to work together to make mounds and take down larger prey are what make them my favorite insects.
I married one
‘The millions if ants create an impenetrable barrier’
*Slowly proceeds camera through the barrier*
The fact that the mantis can fly proves how dumb it was while not flying away when it still had the chance
"What's my purpose"
"You're part of a wall"
*Vomit's pheromones
He thought he was the "Mantis" but he bit off more than he could chew.....lol🐜🐜
😂😂😂
Mantis kills ant
Ant: This is Private Ant! It’s got me! I ain’t getting outta here! Tell my queen I love her and get some reinforcements!
Cringe..
@@seans5631 Don’t care
@@seans5631 didn't ask
@@seans5631 your mother doesn't love you
@@seans5631 your queen doesn't love you
wild ass cartel ants bro
Mantis: oooh piece of candy… oooh piece of candy, oooohh piece of candy, ooh another piece of candy… AAAAHHH!! AHHHHH!! BAD CANDY BAD CANDY!!!
It's amazing that these tiny creatures can communicate so effectively and yet us humans can never seem to get on the same page.
Yeah, but in exchange, they are basically drones without individuality.
@@veronikamajerova4564 no individuality, also sounds like a lot of humans.
Ya thinking for yourself does that to ya
What an ignorant comment
Yeah, let me just send my hormone message to my neighborhood
I’ve been seeing videos of Mantis killing and eating birds, fish, lizards, snakes it’s good to see the tiniest creatures nerfing that killing machine. Balance
I can' t help but imagine that, were mantises bigger, they would prey on us...
I know they would...
Props +1 bruv
As all things should be
Such amazing species ants are. I never thought much of them tbh but their intelligence and teamwork is so powerful it can be scary. I honestly thought the Mantis would have survived, but I was totally wrong.
They had to bring the mantis down. Especially if the driver ants are transporting their queen. Her life would have be in serious danger, and if she dies, the entire colony dies with her. She is the heart and lifeblood of her entire family.
mantis got jumped and sacrificed!
Apparently they eat more meat than lions hyenas and tigers combined I think
Why is it that as I'm watching this vid, all of a sudden, I'm itching on my back, chest and neck?
Imagine creatures with precision like this the size of rats.
now THAT would be hella scary
if ants we're to be big like a size of a rat then our humanity will find a way to make those ants in our food chain just because ants are a lot cleaner than rat yet ants are smaller compare to rats.
Yes, I have relatives like this. Pure scumbags.
@@MT-si3bu ants that big appear in Fallout 3 fuck that shit
They are called rats.
ants can actually be cute seeing them work together you'll realise that they are just like us working for life, it can be scary but... that's what nature is ( thank you for making this video BCC Earth your videos are entertaining and knowledgable )
0:14
Soldier: FOR THE COLONY!
Conscripts: FOR THE QUEEEEEEEEEN!!!
It's quite a change in perspective to consider the ant swarm as a single organism, rather than as a multitude of individual organisms.
Yeah, they're basically cells of a larger being
@@schizophrenic_rambler the ant at 1:42 seems individually intelligent though. I thought they would just have killed the mantis by stupid swarming alone, loosing mamy ants in the process.
Nature's amazing, props to BBC Earth for this insight into the life of this seemingly insignificant creatures.
Narrator: *The millions of interlocking ants that makes up the nests super-structure are an impenetrably barrier*
Camera Man: I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that
I love how the bbc shoved a camera in the middle of the ants
1:50
AUGH THEY’RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AUGGGH AHHHHHH
1:20 ..It was at this moment he knew he f*#*ed up
From now on when I'll have a snack with a Kit Kat I'll remember that sound 02:14
The ant that locked the jaws of the mantis is the MVP in the swarm.
Love how these ants will bury their problems, even though it's a couple lumps of soil and they call it a day.
Ants: aight ladies we're good, let's kill more bugs
Nature’s version of “F around and find out”
Ant: I saw what you did to your boyfriend earlier...its time we return the favor.
Praying mantis:Uhhh, that wasn't.... Ahhhh
Gender equality 💪🏻
“Millions of interlocking ants creating impenetrable barrier for eggs”
Camera: Casually goes in film in 4k
I was thinking the exact same thing 😆 🤣 😂 😹
"the mantis fate is sealed..."
*tearing sound
"...by a clinical decapitation"
1:42
Oh my God
This is why I find insects disgusting but at the same time I am amazed by them
There is a while world so small and right underneath our feet
Ants: YEAH DOESN'T FEEL NICE TO BE EATEN HEAD FIRST NOW DOES IT
"The mantises fate is sealed,"
Wow! Amazing how they work together! Poor praying mantis tho
Well it was either the ants or his next mate.....
circle of life
She deavere it for eathing her husband in a brutal way
poor mantis? Bruh right now this moment there is probably a hyena eating a baby wilderbeast of a lion eating a Buffalo or a male elephant killing a baby elephant
@@Koremel1 You didn't disprove her point.
2:39
“…create an impenetrable barrier.”
**the cameraman’s camera**
You cant stop the camera man
They got violated and harassed
@@kapkan6930 like a live leak
Mantis eyes literally rolled back when dead, that's cool.
Finally someone decapitated the mantis
The powerful praying Mantis has finally meet it's match
Mantis can't fly?!!
It can. And it definitely should have.
I think they did something to the mantis tp get the shot. If not, then why mantis stays to bear the pain?
Males can fly, but female usually don't fly, cause they are to heavy to fly....
@@RatedRana Mantises are weird, they rarely escape from anything even it means their death. I saw plenty of mantis taunting humans at picnic tables lol
Technically, but they are fucking terrible at it. It’s no wonder they don’t and rather die with some dignity.
Kudos to the cameraman. Astounding work.
Mantis: Oh hey, free lunch!
The ants: You're right! I see you right in front of us!
Cartel when you owe them 3 pesos and a chocalate bar
That's why insects are truly a major competitor of humans on earth...
they really arent
1:34 that’s such a cool shot to see the mantises eye move around
It isnt actually moving, its an optical illusion
@@plastikesekoe oh
It got decapitated and didn’t even get laid. Poor Mantis
1:57 he is still choking the same ant
A beautiful and monstruos thing to behold.
This is the kind of nature documentaries that I like: smoothly narrated, with soft and subtle music (unlike most of the silly scores usually used) and a sense of wonder at Life’s mysteries.
Driver Ants are fantastically complex. They seem to know how to deal with things in a very individually specific, purposeful way. They've micromanaged everything to near perfection.
I’m always awestruck at the level of brutality of the insect and arachnid world.