Puke, poop and tiny cockroaches: How the leafcutter ant queen runs her farm - Charles Wallace
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Take a look inside the leafcutter ant colony as a queen begins her reign and the ants work to sustain their supply of fungus.
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In a Texas clearing, an ancient tale that ties four species together is unfurling. The first involved is a soon-to-be queen leafcutter ant. The second is fungus, a piece of which she scoops into her mouth pocket. The third are cockroaches, which nestle under her wings. And the fourth is the one that threatens them all. Charles Wallace takes a look inside the ant colony as a queen begins her reign.
Lesson by Charles Wallace, directed by Charlotte Arene.
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Fungus cultivated by leadcutter ants is considered one of the very few, if not the only case of a species being domesticated by something other than humans.
But what domesticated humans? ;)
@@TEDEd Definitely cats.
@@TEDEd Corona virus
@@TEDEd humans :/
@@nutzeeer exactly.
The animation on this one is just incredible. Everything from the style to the way it matches the music is so artfully done
What software was used in creating this stunning animation?
The weird thing is that nobody asked "how did ants distinguish that leaf are needed for them.
Amazing ❤❤
Now that was a amazing study on the growth of a colony and the expansion of their fungus tycoon!
I saw the title and thought Ted-Ed posted a meme
That's how you know our sense of comedy is absolutely broken via internet sh*posts.
"Broken" is relative in this sense
They changed it
@@soralee1910 Don't play mind games you know what I mean.
What was it?
Charles Wallace went from being an interdimensional traveler to talking about ants.
The poetic nature of these species paired with TED-Ed's amazing animation, writing and narration is a blessing to humanity.
For a moment, I thought the fourth species that threatened them all would be humans. I was shocked when I found it who it was!
Ngl people are more beneficial to them since the tilled farmlands and forest clearings we make are prefect nesting sites and several crops are viewed as prime veg material for their fungus, so they are more of a pest than actually threatened
On Animal Planet (probably) I watched the same story but instead of eating all tree leaves it showed that, when ants have cut more than enough amount of leaves, the tree starts to produce a certain kind of enzyme in the leaves. When ants bring it to the fungus, fungus start to die. Hence ants get a signal to leave that tree alone and to move on the next one!
One of the finest farmer
I took an SAT yesterday and one of the articles was literally about this species of ant farming fungus
Hope you got a great score! 🙏
What a work of art! The animation is incredibly good! I am in the design industry and I know how much time and effort has been put into making this fabulous video.
Do you know what software was used in creating these stunning animations?
What makes me love these Ted Ed videos are just the wide variety of animation styles to match each topic. Kudos to the animators.
A combination of the art style (incredible as always) and the ants and fungus working together reminds me so much of Hollow Knight
The animation was so unique.
Its pretty crazy and adorable how ants can make tiny farms. This book illustration style is pretty neat too.
The graphic style of this video is just amazing.
i did not knew that life in an ant colony would be one of the best dramas ive seen in my life.
Ted-ed never fails to impress me with fresh new animation with every new video.
I’ve always loved ants and their colonies. I always feel so bad when people kill them. I’ve always tried to convince people to leave them be if they aren’t in the house or causing problems. Poor little creatures
I made a home for them before . . .
So freaking cool man. Nature always blows my mind away. Also exchange the character of ants to humans and you got yourself a very very creepy sci-fi story.
Narration, Animation and Information aside: The Music on this one is amazing! Subtle, unique and still supporting the narrative. Is it a custom Soundtrack or can I listen to it by itself somewhere?
Thank you!
Wow, what a remarkably refined and efficient civilization! Presented with TedED's characteristic clarity and comprehensiveness and -- dare I say it? -- love for the object of its study.
Kudos to the cameraman who recorded the ants activity to the underground.
Nature is amazing, what teamwork, fascinating learning.
They grab a piece of home. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
This deserves a million views
Leafcutter ants are so fascinating! Our crew managed to get on camera
Leafcutter ants in the heart of the amazon, the footage shows in reality what you guys described in the video. We followed the ant's path and explored their underground farming grounds. It's so incredible to see how they actually use the leaves to sustain this fungus that they grow in their nests to help feed them and their young. One of the most incredible things is to see them transporting their haul to underground nests-the equivalent of a human carrying more than a tonne between teeth- and then crushing and cutting the leaves and even discharging faecal liquids to break them down into suitable pieces for their fungus farms.
I own a leafcutter colony, if you give them enough substrate they would bury the fungus (as that's how it's in the wild) however, people that own them (captive) want to view the fungus. so they tend to leave them without substrate.
I personally own atta mexicana colony.
The animation wow! It looks so real
Well, I guess it's good to know that even tiny cockroaches can find love and a place to call home in this world. Who knew that all they needed was a fungal garden and the ability to mimic the scent of leafcutter ants?
Does the cockroaches help in any way to the colony?
Freaks me out how similar they are to humans. They have organisations, jobs, cities, agriculture, soldiers, leaders, nurseries, even a chamber for waste disposal.
Okay, so the animator deserves a raise.
Beautiful animation. Loved every frame of it. Good job
Complicated way of saying. "The babies need food, the Queen makes food, the Queen makes babies!"
I like the treecutters who make those leaf castles
The art style they used in this episode is so realistic :O
You know this all started cause when the meteor that killed the dinosaurs struck, the ants bunk went into hiding with a patch of fungi being their only food supply:
I love leafcutter ants they are amazing they my most favorite ant
This farming your own food trait is highly beneficial, especially in very harsh places like deserts where food is very difficult to find.
And fungi are also much hardier than plants,by living in areas with less sunlight.
SO BASICALLY EVERYONE FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL
Fantastic animation. Love the q-tip sequence 3:28
Great video
Take SimAnt, SimFarm and the Tycoon games and combine them into Fungi Tycoon
Gr8! Now, can anyone suggest how to get rid of these pesky ants, in a way where it destroys the queen? I have tried sprays.🤔
This was interesting and amazing. I love the narrator's voice. He has been on multiple videos. Outstanding work #TEDEd
god the animation caught me off guard its so good
THAT'S SO AMAZING
ME, WHEN A HOUSEPLANT DIES: It's okay! Gardening is hard.
ANTS: 👁👄👁🍃
“The queen’s kingdom” sounds so weird.
1:08 consuming the infertile ones… hmm that’s a bit interesting considering ant genetics where an unfertile egg STILL hatches, unfertile eggs hatch into male ants… though males are often killed routinely in terms of ant behavior.
It ain't much but, it's honest work.
I Love all of your videos❤
Just goes to show tycoons are born, not made.🐜
Ants!
Imagine if the ants have bigger body, brains, and have two hands for manipulating tools.
Wow! Beautiful !👍💜
Awesome 🤩
This is exactly what I thought. Little did you know, I already knew about leafcutter ants and their... ANTics
excellent animation and content
As amazing content as always 😊
When will we get a RTS leafcutter ant game go mainstream
woooaaah, cool animation
Cool, I own a leafcutter colony...
cool
so many things that humans tend to think are ours only! What a cool video.
Wow, very interesting video!
I was hoping to find out why ants take away finger/toenail clippings?
i keep a few species of fungus growing ants, they are really cool.
It's about time we delve into Cordyceps... don't you think? Ted-Ed
HXH Chimera Ant arc, in a nutshell
Suddenly, a molten aluminum poured into the anthill by a curious UA-camr
So the question is, how would they know to do all that
It’s an animal it does because it keeps them alive the ones who don’t will die
Hey thumbnail, It was what we thought.
Funny how they are small but they don't use atomic technology.
We've finally found intelligence on Earth.
Fungus tycoon...sounds like a shrewd business ant
So did our observations of these ants lead to early agriculture ?
OMG AESTHETIC
is it me or anyone can hear a faint doorbell sound.. i though someone was ringing my door bell :/
Literally "we stan a self made ✨queen✨" moment 🤣
So the ants bring leaves to the fungus so the fungus in return can give the ants amino acids and enzymes?
and then some random person pours molten aluminum
I thought it would be somehow related to the ant becoming a zombie 😂
Different fungus, but I hear you!
And people are searching for another advanced civilisation outside our planet
It was what I thought
And a square-headed person comes and says: Oh, all these activities, precision and order have come by chance, without a creator (stupidity itself)
ants cultivating fungus or is the fungus cultivating ants?
Give them cordyceps and the domesticator becomes the domesticated
Who had patience to study all these..
Question related to this topic was asked in the UPSC prelims..
this is crazy 😱
hands up if it was exactly what you thought 😂😂
Are there any transcripts
Dope
The one time I don’t hate ants tho-
Ants are cool!
With those teeny tiny brains they are doing marvellous work! And we humans with big brain 🤣 are not even close match to them. Who taught them to grow fungus? Who taught them to build big colonies. Where did they get those knowledge. So many questions are overflowing in my mind. But that is how nature works. Every living thing interlinked with one another to survive and support each other lives. And that is what life! Those lessons are something we never find in the text books!
Evolution taught them.
hey, a few years ago u made a video where u told us what is the ear ringing? so i wanna know if it means anything bad, ive been having it for 4 years.
Interesting
What software you are using about that content
What if the little cockroach are like pets to the ants?