One thing she mentioned is how she was a bit surprised that ants never do something with complete 'determinancy'. But this might well be an advantage instead of a downside (similar, although on a completely different scale, to how variance is built into reproduction/evolution). The big part of 'buffer' ants was really surprising to me, and what she mentioned at the very end about functioning against run-away effects sparked my interest.
I put a teaspoon of sugar next to 3 ant colonies around my driveway (one pile next to each one). They are all the same kind of ants, those little black house ants. 1 of the colonies was actively eating it on the spot. The other 2 didn't show much interest and only a couple of ants were working at moving the grains into the hole and none of the ants were eating it on the spot. I repeated this the next day and got the same results. Why does one colony stuff their faces while the other 2 are so casual? My guess is the casual ones have a full pantry while the face stuffing ones have a empty one.
Well I don't know much about ants, but I clicked on this to learn about ant colony optimization. This lecture was still interesting, especially near the end when talking about resource allocation as a function of network size.
It seems like there ought to be a way to develop an automated recognition system that could very accurately track the flow of each individual ant into an out of the nest and what they were up to. It looks like it would save a lot of "horseflesh."
Zenophon Bond Magic and miracles is not the purview of science. The cooperators survived and the non-cooperators were died out - filtered via natural selection.
+Mae Zeppa Here I am...yeah, EVERYONE died out for EVERY SINGLE FEATURE that is not 99.9% like Human, TONS OF pseudo-humans died out...STUPID. SO take EVERY single feature/structure/function from the voltage regulation of channels/gates to the shape of fingernails to the length of legs, to shape of heart valves etc EVERY SINGLE DETAIL-there must be MILLIONS DEAD for each organism BUT you say MANY died for the pseudo-final model Man is now. And many other organisms DIED to make the PERFECT "evolving" HOMOGENEOUS organism...RIGHT. Seems like evolution has a GOAL is to KILL ORGANISMS. That is contradictory. Organisms DO NOT EVOLVE to a static homogeneity. They do not go from bacteria to human over the claimed "millions/billions..." of years then FREEEZE at 99.9 homgeneity eg humans.
Whispering Hammer No... features common to all mammals or all complex social species were retained. For instance, non-cooperators died out long before humans evolved. That's why all complex social species cooperate. Common ancestor.
Mae Zeppa No, they were NOT retained....there is no bias, there is no "accounting", no record, etc because RANDOM mutation undoes what is "done"....besides, structures do not have just ONE GENE but multiple genes affecting a structure and function.
Whispering Hammer You are confused about mutations. Everybody carries many lethal mutations. I could explain why most of them are unexpressed but at this point you'd only be confused. When enough bad mutations accumulate they are quickly dumped from the gene pool.
These small insect species have to be protected so they can build nests using materials in natural woodlands. Larger brained species are dependant on the smaller species for survival in the food chain. But we never really take notice of these delicate food chains, we just look at the indivual animals and not the relations between species so much.
Scientists play an important role in analysing the natural world but sometimes declare theories that are later disproven by themselves or other scientists. So this video shows a scientist forming scientific theories based on observations, these theories can change later based on new observations. Sometimes human activities can influence scientific observations. So this scientist is providing a valid observation of insect phenomena in order to form theories based on peer review evaluation.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. An ant can lift 20 times its own body weight. If a 175-pound man had the comparative strength of an ant, he could lift four tons.
0:45 already a false affirmation said as definite truth. "No one tells others what to do" is wrong in ant colony. The strongest ant tells the weaker. The one ant who is going to do the hard or dangerous job is the weakest ant, and they compare their strength by kick-boxing with antennas. Some species are less violent, but be sure that some ants are influencers anyway. If you don't acknowledge this, your whole consideration is pure waste of time. Mostly ants resembles us because they live in social large groups. so they do know love, compassion, but they know too laziness, frustration. They LEARN things because it's more efficient than instinct in social groups! If you follow a new ant she is clumsy in every aspect, then she learns any new skill with experience.
Very, very interesting video! Watched all of it :D lol you can see she's not a great orator...But I think no one care. Her work and knowledge is very respectable :)
This is awesome.
You can tell how much we learned about ant communication since this lecture.
One thing she mentioned is how she was a bit surprised that ants never do something with complete 'determinancy'. But this might well be an advantage instead of a downside (similar, although on a completely different scale, to how variance is built into reproduction/evolution).
The big part of 'buffer' ants was really surprising to me, and what she mentioned at the very end about functioning against run-away effects sparked my interest.
I put a teaspoon of sugar next to 3 ant colonies around my driveway (one pile next to each one). They are all the same kind of ants, those little black house ants. 1 of the colonies was actively eating it on the spot. The other 2 didn't show much interest and only a couple of ants were working at moving the grains into the hole and none of the ants were eating it on the spot. I repeated this the next day and got the same results. Why does one colony stuff their faces while the other 2 are so casual? My guess is the casual ones have a full pantry while the face stuffing ones have a empty one.
Well I don't know much about ants, but I clicked on this to learn about ant colony optimization. This lecture was still interesting, especially near the end when talking about resource allocation as a function of network size.
It seems like there ought to be a way to develop an automated recognition system that could very accurately track the flow of each individual ant into an out of the nest and what they were up to. It looks like it would save a lot of "horseflesh."
there was an anuall mating i guess outside my house 2 years ago, a bunch of ants fell from the tree and were together. most had wings.
This is a remarkable and worthwhile lecture by a prominent myrmecologist.
Zenophon Bond Magic and miracles is not the purview of science. The cooperators survived and the non-cooperators were died out - filtered via natural selection.
+Mae Zeppa Here I am...yeah, EVERYONE died out for EVERY SINGLE FEATURE that is not 99.9% like Human, TONS OF pseudo-humans died out...STUPID. SO take EVERY single feature/structure/function from the voltage regulation of channels/gates to the shape of fingernails to the length of legs, to shape of heart valves etc EVERY SINGLE DETAIL-there must be MILLIONS DEAD for each organism BUT you say MANY died for the pseudo-final model Man is now. And many other organisms DIED to make the PERFECT "evolving" HOMOGENEOUS organism...RIGHT. Seems like evolution has a GOAL is to KILL ORGANISMS. That is contradictory. Organisms DO NOT EVOLVE to a static homogeneity. They do not go from bacteria to human over the claimed "millions/billions..." of years then FREEEZE at 99.9 homgeneity eg humans.
Whispering Hammer No... features common to all mammals or all complex social species were retained. For instance, non-cooperators died out long before humans evolved. That's why all complex social species cooperate. Common ancestor.
Mae Zeppa No, they were NOT retained....there is no bias, there is no "accounting", no record, etc because RANDOM mutation undoes what is "done"....besides, structures do not have just ONE GENE but multiple genes affecting a structure and function.
Whispering Hammer You are confused about mutations. Everybody carries many lethal mutations. I could explain why most of them are unexpressed but at this point you'd only be confused. When enough bad mutations accumulate they are quickly dumped from the gene pool.
douchy question at 53:10
These small insect species have to be protected so they can build nests using materials in natural woodlands. Larger brained species are dependant on the smaller species for survival in the food chain. But we never really take notice of these delicate food chains, we just look at the indivual animals and not the relations between species so much.
Scientists play an important role in analysing the natural world but sometimes declare theories that are later disproven by themselves or other scientists.
So this video shows a scientist forming scientific theories based on observations, these theories can change later based on new observations.
Sometimes human activities can influence scientific observations.
So this scientist is providing a valid observation of insect phenomena in order to form theories based on peer review evaluation.
Do the ants have some sort of symbiotic relationship with the grass?
For a short period each year, colonies produce both winged male and winged females.
They then spread out to mate and found a new colony.
Bravo, thank you for freely sharing your hard-earned knowledge.
very Inice I notice some of the behaviors she was discussing in my ant colonies.
so what do foragers do again?
"some mechanism that makes the patrolers come back less often" is usually death, isn't it?
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. An ant can lift 20 times its own body weight. If a 175-pound man had the comparative strength of an ant, he could lift four tons.
very informative! i love this!
Really excellent video - thank you for sharing this.
0:45 already a false affirmation said as definite truth. "No one tells others what to do" is wrong in ant colony. The strongest ant tells the weaker. The one ant who is going to do the hard or dangerous job is the weakest ant, and they compare their strength by kick-boxing with antennas. Some species are less violent, but be sure that some ants are influencers anyway. If you don't acknowledge this, your whole consideration is pure waste of time. Mostly ants resembles us because they live in social large groups. so they do know love, compassion, but they know too laziness, frustration. They LEARN things because it's more efficient than instinct in social groups! If you follow a new ant she is clumsy in every aspect, then she learns any new skill with experience.
HUGE BRAIN !!!!
Very, very interesting video! Watched all of it :D
lol you can see she's not a great orator...But I think no one care. Her work and knowledge is very respectable :)
Love the sheep and any colony analogy of us peons.
i would say that they are "naturally" "devoted" to their colony
this reminds me a book i once read... i forgot the name of it, but it's connected with the idea of nano particles and AI
Great documentary thanx!
I'M GONNA WATCH ANTZ NOW!
Ants that only live inside and do nothing they are special forces that will help the colony in the time of war with other ants.😎
AWSOME VIDEO!! I REALLY LIKED IT
Cool vid, wish I learned how to get rid of ants tho.
Very Interesting!!
Some really stupid questions were being asked??
Well they own UA-cam so there is a chance they get stuff uploaded quicker :)
bout time they figure how they communicate..
The State submits as evidence to the jury the last known video from the husband.
it are google servers so it could be a second of 2
Deborah was quite disappointed by the fast film.
this is google. wtf film is moving fast!?
whoah girl don't let your mouth drop off!
DAMN! 1:05:10? WTF? How did you live your life? NICE NICE
Wow... an hour long video about ants.
53:10
dont insult the ants.
@phuckingkunt lol. Yeah, okay I found it.....
Maybe this women is a great orator after all :D
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Wow.
Your anti-intellectualism makes you kind of cool and badass. I bet if you kept hitting your skull against the hood of a Hummer you would win.
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HAHAHA!! She needs to work on her beginning. The "I study ants because..." just does not work. Makes me totally not interested.
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