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- Driver ants have a gruesome reputation for killing everything in their path, from defenseless worms to a full-size scorpion.
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"They kill babies if left unattended"
Shows a ant biting into someone while a baby is crying.
The stuff of nightmares.
These show producers crack me up with their psychological trickery. They know we're hard-wired to be engaged at the cry of a baby, and boy did they use it.
@@CJW0056 I’m unaffected by it.
Maybe I’m crazy.
hi H S...
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who is a word - THEY -
the editor knew what they were doing
they have eaten small children though they can spit numbing agents on you and dig in and you wont even feel it.
0:29 I bet the ant’s like “sorry mate you can’t film here, Queen’s orders”.
"we have tried to have a interview with the Queen, but our guides, Antolomeo said that we can't"
😂😂
Ha!
*"I'm sorry sir, it's time for you to leave"*
"And so it is"
Hahahaha 😂😂😂
Incredible how this camera man went undercover as an ant and film all this
This was shoot by Ant Man...
@@burizaemon9305 I was about to say that
0:50 "Excuse me, sir. You're not allowed to film here."
i'm your 500th like
@@lakojake4215 yeah I also noticed.
The integration with real life going on around and in the background of these ants is what made this such a great clip.
It was a nice touch.
No, it only made it feel like a setup and staged.
But it was so obviously fake that I just kept getting drawn right out of the narration.
Upload some new content with new models
I see one regular ant in my apartment and I go on high defence with Raid. I couldn’t live like this.
Imagine going to bed, then waking up in the jungle being carried away by ants.
And seeing your arm and legs coming behind seperated
ant bully
@Gabriel Feeny This is a very natural conversion in UA-cam comments. I am going to believe you and go get myself a virus.
And you wake up inside a giant jar
#nightmarefuel
I will never ever complain about the tiny ants in my kitchen again.
I know right ! These aunts are straight from hell itself LOL
@TheDrewSaga such as ?
Honestly, I miss the fire ants from my childhood. Annoying? Sure. I once remember feeling pain below, looking down, and finding my thigh-high socks enveloped by ants.
In this part of the US, we only get boring mosquitos.
@@jacobshirley3457 mosquitos and buzzing AR15
I really hate ants. I like to spray a convoy of ants with bug spray. Watching them cramp to death satisfies me.
4:04
They legit suplexed that Beetle 😂 I've now seen it all.
First half: "Why do they allow so many ants in their village?"
Second half: "Well, that's good they allow so many ants in their village."
"They are ready to take on anything, including people"
People: proceed on smashing them with one foot.
@Rose Roberson the people there will trash you black and blue if you kill these ants with gasoline. These ants are free pest controllers for the farmers in Africa.
Hey I just want to let you know I can control ant and other insect because I am real life shino.
They were ready tho
@Rose Roberson do you light the gas afterwards, or just let it soak in?
Basically most large scale titan vs human battle lets be honest.
Scorpion gets in the way, ants: "Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!"
Loving the Lord of the Ring reference lol
Orgs your saying.
Scorpion: *Enters House*
Ants: it’s free food and real estate
*Uruk-Hai theme intensifies*
Hehe man of culture
It’s insane how well coordinated they are together despite the fact each individual ant barely has a brain
They're pretty much a hive mind
They don't have brains. They have relatively simple central nervous systems that are nowhere near the complexity of even the stupidest animal's brain.
Just like BLM.
@@85justsomedude Aaaand there it is, the guy so obsessed with politics he finds a way to drag it into everything.
@@nikoscott145 What did you expect from humanity?
Humans: "We have a pest problem"
Ants: "Not to worry mate, we got this"
Also humans:- *call pest controller to destroy the ant colony*
wildlife is wealth of nature seriously man I worked in gardening a long time ago and country club home owners have pest control guys pass by like twice a week killing all the bugs then birds eat the dead bugs and die or get sick I saw that a lot
Why did I read this in a Australian accent
Good, that's one less loose end.
Driver ants are savage! This is why they don't tie cattle to trees. They can tear apart livestock piece by piece if the animals can't get away!
Oh hey there, bet you remember me
hello
You just made this up, right? Livestock mammals are too big for driver ants to take down
That makes absolutely no sense. You’re talking about minute fractions of meat right?
@@vanizorc I don't think he is kidding. I've seen videos online about them killing livestock animals as well. They literally will kill things like cattle, lamb, and other farm animals with ease. They gang up so fast on the animal and the animals don't have any means of brushing them off like humans can. So the ants just have at the animals unless the animal can run away freely or get into a body of water to get them off.
"Their feelings ..." *video ends*
And now we will never know their feelings.
.....you could watch the actual tv show the clip came from.
😂
For all eternity
They do not have any feelings.
😂🤣🤣
I have to say I find the structure within the ant colony absolutely fascinating.
Prettty wild how most other insects, even large and armored ones, don’t stand a chance against Ants. It’s not close to a fair fight.
There’s power in numbers
Ants together strong.
Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life!
@@Konformation07 close but for humans, they outnumber us about 100,000 to one. Granted most are tiny harmless ants, but some are bullet or bull ants.
It’s the animal equivalent of ‘when you have more bodies than the enemy has bullets’
The kriegsman aproves
...and this is why you always carry grenades 💣💥💥
Ants : "It easy to win with lots of ants "
@Epic Glacier like that spirit
@@user936 Jayne approves.
Crazy how strong ants are together
Their one of the oldest insects. In terms of intelligence they are likely at the peak for their tiny size, to the point they became social insects to overcome their inherent limitations as insects.
yup
Ants together strong
Looks like humans
Hey I just want to let you know I can control ant and other insect because I am real life shino.
The effort it must have taken..to bring us clips like this...is worth a noble. 👏👏 Kudos to the camera crew. 👍👍
Imagine these ants vs a roach infested house. I'd pay good money to see that fight
😆
It wouldn't be much of a fight. It would obviously be in favor of the ants.
A Bugs Life looks different than I remember-
Most of Hollywood movies are bullshit,especially lately...
Those grasshoppers would be murdered.
Looks somewhat similar to Antz
They look more like "antZ" to me.
Couldn't agree more 🐜💙
Imagine being ripped apart and eaten alive by ants and the last thing you see is some kids playing patty cake.
Get ready when u go to grave
🤣🤣🤣
Wow, the Doctor sure knows a lot about ants
Humans: “Say ants, we got a scorpion problem in the kitchen.”
Ants: “Say no more, fam. We gotchu.”
I'm imagining a farmer finding a caterpillar on one of their plants, seeing a driver ant column, then dropping the caterpillar onto it.
Then the ants think: "A gift from the gods!"
Lol
Nice joke
A gift from the god through human.
Yeah that is basically it
@@F0otBall_editzz .
RIP my poor boy Skarner, got ganked in the jungle while doing the scuttle
He should have warded
But Scuttle is in the river and not the jungle.
LMFAO!!! The Crystal Scar is weeping!
LOL nerds spotted !!!!!
@@dantheman3022 Okay mr. chad
I like how the people in that village coexist with the ants and help eachother in some ways like getting rid of pests in their house and farms and the ants benefit from it cause they get to feed their colony, but at the same time the people and the ants hate eachother.
I literally get chills when I see documentarys about these ants
Ants: “GET HIM! HE CAN’T STING US ALL!”
Haha..scorpion.. LOSES..FATALITY!!
😊
FINISH HIM
@@davidthor4405 😄😄
@@tommybrown9534 😁
That’s crazy to see people living their “normal” life behind these ants
@@sevensixtwo5704 I had to report comment
@@The_Essential_Review Well in this case they're right considering it looks like a village system in which case they are very unequal in terms of opportunity.
They, the ants, are not pests. The folks living there have learnt how to use the ants for their good
This 🐜 are deadly if you rear animals they could kill them if you don't do the needful ( using an effective Insecticide)
Symbiotic relationship. Humans leave the ants alone, Ants will help humans with pests
So humbling.
absolutely amazing footage
Farmers plowing the land...
Ants: It's an all you can eat buffet boys!
Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!
@@cfowler7936 dammit you beat me to it
That beetle rolling down getting attacked was like "I was just trying to go home and feed my kids" 🤣🤣😥
Ikr
And then he met the swarm...
The ant: Hey, so was I :)
"Well, now you're going to feed *my* kids"
4:04 *hello darkness my old friend...*
This is equally amazing and horrifying.
Scorpion: Come here!!!!
Ants: OK
-scorpion walks into an alley
-ants in NY accent " look what we got here boys"
Jenny from the block, says hi with a glock
god i wish you could award youtube comments
nice night for a walk, right?
wachu doin ova hee?!
I can imagine them snapping their fingers chirping ts ts tsk ts ts ts tsk
Love the one ant who casually flexed on that scorpion by being almost as big as he was.
timestamp?
@@dansmith6990 3:20
also known as a super major.
Thats insane wow
How the hell is that one ant so big, especially compared to the others. It could behead the scorpion in one bite. Yeesh
Such an intimate hug from the ants, they really missed that scorpion.
"GET OVER HERE!"
I like the face of regret that the scorpion showed
Anything: Exists*
Driver Ants: "And I took that personally"
A bugs life is truly a horror movie.
They clen them all.
For us humans it would appear to be. But they have no concept of fear. Only survival.
Bruh it legit is tho i was scared af of those grasshoppers
@@Betti08 then what?
Not for driver ants
This takes “there is strength in numbers” to a whole new level.
A tunnel to protect the little ones... that's amazing. Evolution is amazing
"they are programmed to keep the trail Moving, or die trying" most badass thing I've heard about an ant.
Those ants will kill a full grown human, it's no joke
@@peterwairinews3360 yeah but it would take a great number of ants to do it.
Just like a cyclist in traffic 🙃.
So who’s the programmer?
@@peterwairinews3360 how ? humans vital organs are deep behind fat and muscles unlike insects, maybe if it was a dead body then they can get to it, but it'll take a long time
When you go back to level 1 but the noobs are teaming up on you.
ua-cam.com/video/D-jbh0AlgMc/v-deo.html
The ants are level 1 noobs that team up and the scorpion is level 100
@@dibershai6009 i know thats what i meant
@@dibershai6009 thanks for saying that, i couldn't read the op's comment
Except the noobs also got gear from their op friends so even if their skills are low their weapons are broken
This gave me a nauseous yet terrified shiver down my spine.
Lying on my couch listening to the doctor serenely explain ants to me as I sleep...this is success.
2:21 Seriously a lot of "respect" to this man who patiently let the ant bite him.
And the guy that stepped on them lol
They mostly walk with no boots , and their skin is really tough cause of that , so i doubt they felt anything .
They just got one of the babies to do it
Digging in deep.
Dude was careful not to kill the ant either???
People stepping on the ants and getting bite by them
Cameraman: let’s record this fatal moment
I don’t think you know what fatal means lol
@@flak7665 it’s an exaggeration 🤦🏽♀️
@@flak7665 it sure is fatal for the ants
Ants are example of great team work
first minutes gave me chills
"They are ready to take on anything, including people."
Camera man: *Come again...*
it always amazes me how people feel like copying top comments is a valuable contribution to the comment section.
@@dirtdiv3r Copied comment
@Giovanni Balbosa-Mc Intosh Did I?
"I need a raise"
@@dirtdiv3r Seems like creative thinking died out apparently.
my body: shiver every second throughout the video
my brain: *WATCH IT*
I see myself in that comment
WOW
Pretty cool that they’re actually helpful
Ants are truly incredible creatures. Nature is spectacular
These people just live with them and walk over them bare foot like its nothing
When you spend your life walking around everywhere without shoes on I suppose your feet become about as tough as shoes anyway!
Maybe they haven't seen a western documentary meant to sensationalize every little thing in the "dark continent" and blow every concern way out of proportion for ratings. Maybe they don't buy into the "boogeyman factor" for every natural normal little thing in Africa. Maybe they aren't all that put out by some ants eating bugs in the yard.
It's not like they do more than just bite. You want to see ants that you can't do this with? Bull-ants (jumping jacks is another name for them) don't bite-they sting. The venom in their sting causes anaphylaxis in about 3% of humans-which will kill them. These driver ants seem like great lil buddies compare to them.
I do not believe that walking on an ant kills it, the amount of pressure it has to bear is minimal. However, it is fascinating how they live in symbiosis with humans.
@@ConstantlyDamaged Those big jaws must still be painful tho
Still remember when I was a kid and saw ants floating across the water of a drainage ditch on a "human raft" so to speak. I was probably twelve or so at the time, was before I had seen documentaries with that sort of thing, kind of what got me to watching them actually. I just thought that was so unique and fascinating, to this day I love a good ant/insect documentary.
I remember seeing an army of ants build a ship and sail across the Pacific Ocean.
When they stepped on them with the bare foot my anxiety hit the ceiling 😳
Crazy how mutually beneficial the relationship between the ants and the villagers is
Smart people, not everything needs to be solved with chemicals.
They even use the soldier driver ants as stitches. They grab the ant by the thorax and have them bite the wound to pinch it closed and then tear the body off from the head.
@@Vesdus god damn, it’s crazy to me how ingenious these people can be. It sounds painful though haha
@@jaranda543
Cg
@@Vesdus lmao idk if this joking or real
2:00 the cat : Omg mom they're coming
LOL!
that cat knew what was up XD
Ants are fascinating and make for good documentaries.
watching this video really makes you appreciate being on the top of the food chain pyramid
Ants: "You better get out of here fast bro"
Scorpion: "Oh yeah? Bite me!"
Ants: "Ok".
Nice
Scorpion in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson : " You can't kill me, mf's!!"
Stop commenting like this:
It’s unfunny:
Not 2018:
Stop.
@@datguy3338 Stop it:
Get some help:
@@lukemathers7460 your nan wears a superman costume
It's actually quite educational, it's amazing the film starting out talking about how terrifying ants can be but then it turns out that people live side-by-side with the ants in harmony. That's a trip.
nah dude fuck that, theyre forced to live that way
@@ferce889 Well either way, as it's explained here, looks like a mutually beneficial relationship to me.
Lots of species are like that. Coyotes come to mind.
They have been known to eat people my father had one of his troops eaten when passed out drunk they even ate the marrow from his bones.
Interview the scorpion, what he thinks about those ants.
I've always found ants to be quite amazing
BBC Earth is the best wildlife documentary filmmaker on planet earth. Nothing else comes close.
The details about the farmers and village living harmoniously with the ants was the best part of this, thank you for not taking the cheap lazy route of fearmongering. I'm glad such an interesting and formidable species can be beneficial! If they are anything like wasps, they probably recognize the farmers and know to wait nearby.
A nice sentiment, but ants are blind, so it would have to be by scent, or not at all
It's a british documentary, not an american one... otherwise there would be dramatic music, fast cuts, camera shaking, a sob story of how a mother lost her husband to ants and now has to carry her sick daughter to a village 100 miles away to get treatment.
@@masteratk Dont forgot we also add animal noises to insects XD
"Formidable". Formicidae. Heh.
You're saying what exactly, that wasps purposely stay away from farmers, and that they are somehow beneficial to them? Genuinely curious.
Christ the part where it goes into human skin was brutal to look at, hope they paid that person something
I dont think BBC is sadist enough to pay for pain, though the news fraternity is becoming worse than the vermin...
@Sandy Harris having feet like that was the best growing up, you can run on almost anything without getting wounds/bruises. Jumping from tree to tree or Tree to the ground lol
It was on the foot, you hardly feel anything when ants bite you there.
@Wilson ah true, still makes me squeamish!
The fact that the ant is big enough to be pinched and pulled seems to elude everyone...
thats so insane man
Phenomenal camera work
This symbiotic relationship actually works. In my village we have learned to direct these ants to parts of the house that is infested with pests and rodents etc.
They usually migrate like 3/4 times annually. This happens during the night, we read their seasons and prepare for them. By morning time the entire hut/house is cleared out with evidence of useful destruction left behind and the ants moved on without a fuss.
Thank you for sharing your experience!
How is it done? Are u from africa?
Wow...I never heard of such a thing.
Thanks for sharing.
@@lolvivo8783 he is no more live he is eaten :( :/
How do you "direct" them?
Do they actually kill rodents??? (Real question btw this is interesting af)
Narrator : they are ready to attack even people.
Ants : Giantttt, Runnnn, Take cover.
I just imagined this..And Thought
I mean, You see that the Ants get all over-protective when they see humans? I thought of a movie somehow..Where we see from the POV of an ant and how terrifying it is to get stepped by a human, Like the soldiers try to protect the workers meanwhile they run all panicked..Ima make a draw out of this
The "Night March" in the rainforest has a known sound. People move away from it because they know the danger, as do a lot of other animals.
AOT intro enters the chat
The narrator is David Tennant.
More like
Ants: It's free real estate
It’s mad just how ruthless and organised ants actually are!
What a way to go... R.I.P. Scorpion...
me: " There is nothing to be scared of its only an ant documentary."
A ant breaking the fourth wall @ 0:51
You mean walking along
ant: hi moooom
@@BlaneNostalgia "Look mom Im on tv!"
0:36 "The soldier ants create an impregnable barricade."
5-year-old in boots: "Hold my juicebox."
Major props to the tiny cameraman marching with those ants to get this footage.
Camera work is amazing
If that scorpion had vocal chords, it would be screaming in a way that is more disturbing than Ed's parents removing the stairs from their house.
My god this comment is gold
What? Is that a show?
@@spankyoulater Ed, Edd n Eddy. At Ed’s house his room is in the basement across from the laundry (the irony being he never bathes and his personal bathtub is full of gravy). In one episode he was grounded and as part of the punishment his parents removed the stairs connecting the basement to the house until the sentence was over.
UA-cam ‘Ed grounded stairs’, but you’d need to see the full episode for the rest of the context.
@@tsukasa19 thank you , I'm gonna try finding that:)
Villagers: yall hearing something?
As a son who's Mom was stung by a Scorpion inside my home , and suffered..this really makes me happy.
Is your Mother ok? How is she doing?
@@moritztabor1678 Thanks for Asking....she is ok but was bed ridden for for a while.
@@kithu1231 Glad to hear she is recovering. Greetings from 🇩🇪. Have a nice day.
@@moritztabor1678 Thanks once again..🙏🏼
Their sting is extremely painful, I was stung once when about 3/4 years old . The pain was unbearable. It affected me for a very long after.
This clip is way too good to end like it does!!
I like the patient of the camera man. He deserves one like atleast.
I want more of David Tennant voice overs, could recognise the Doctor anywhere.
I was like wait that's 10
Yessss thank you no one else said it
Ah the Scottish ascent.. well he need to be a bit more lively,
This is not David Tennant
I've heard a couple of these he's in and I thought I was going insane from withdrawal from the show but apparently I'm not looool
1:26 that legitimately sent a shiver up my spine starting from my foot.
Omg my soul escaped for a sec when she did that.
Seriously, I cringed so hard
Same
And the sound ehhh
Oh my 😱😱
The sound design on this video is crazy
Thankyou n respect for this video
Is no one going to talk about how that man stepped on the ants barefoot like it was normal and completely unaffected by it?
Like no fucks given at all
Bottom of that foot is probably completely callused over from going barefoot all the time. Doubt they felt anything unless the ant called up the side.
That's dude feet are like leather
Prety much everyone in the comments section is talking about it
If you never wear shoes your feet adapt to the terrain you walk on. As a child we could run on any surface barefoot. Only glass, metal and sometimes wood could penetrate/cut our feet. Green ant bites were tickles on our feet lol. City living makes us soft and resistant to almost nothing. Rural life makes you resistant to a lot of diseases etc city folk cannot handle without a visit to the doctors.
1:25 Seriously a lot of "respect" to this man who stepped on to this heap of angry ants
That has to be a prop…or a stunt man with access to a lot of painkillers
@@paladia_gorom1973 dude that was a local
@@MidwestFarmToys work in a garden or field, let's see how many bugs you can spare from being trodden underfoot.
Dude was just going about his business. I think you're confusing him with those who burn ants with 🔎 for fun or pour molten metals down anthill for "science/art".
@@MidwestFarmToys lol bro people got shit to do can’t worry about some ants in the way
Why leave the same comment twice
These ants are powerless against the humanity’s greatest weapon:
Shoes
Now that's soldiering
It's like a Zergling rush:
"For the Queen and the Swarm!"
For the Overmind you blasphemer!!
Farmer : ( Digging )
Ant : LOOKS LIKE MEAT IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard
@@jchneiw ants: what about their legs they don't need those
Ayeeee
Symbiosis...
Amazing!
Fascinating clip. Thanks for posting!
Attack small ant: Heheh, dead
Colony: *You have instigated a gang war*
GTA reference???
Love how the villagers aren't disturbed by the ants in their house, dude just took it off his feet, and stayed put in front of the marching army ants Lol
I mean would you complain if they kept away the spiders and scorpions?
@@rabbitguts2518 no, but I'd be honest, I wouldnt feel comfortable with those ants aswell, and take note I love ants alot, but this one's are no joke lol
I’m pretty sure they been through worst
They’re like this is normal.
@@rabbitguts2518 spiders are like ants, they hunt for pest insects, and are harmless to human, only rare ones are dangerous. I believe, these ants act as deterrent for more dangerous parasites that spread deseases, like flea, lice, bedbugs, roaches etc.
This is amazing it's like having anti hero as a guard
I always knew ants were organized but it’s just mind blowing.
I once had a nightmare as a kid about being thrown in a killer ant pit. The pain and mental trauma felt almost real and i was traumatized for hours...
Because you were watching too many movies
What does Movies had to do with this?
@Zilla Deliva i-i My Brain Just committed suicide reading this Though a Nightmare can Happen differently
Well instead of screaming like a little princess you should have use the size to kill them
We in India call nightmares as experiences from past life.