Meat Ants | The Kickboxing Ants From Down Under
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- An original documentary on Australia’s iconic “Meat Ants” (Iridomyrmex purpureus), also known as “Rainbow Ants”. From their massive colonies and nest structures, to their fierce ability to overwhelm their victims, to the way they kickbox to resolve conflict, to their avid farming of leafhoppers and aphids...Meat ants are some very fascinating ants indeed!
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I think what is most interesting about Meat Ants is the way they fight other meat ant colonies. It is very cool to see how they establish territorial boundaries by almost having "duels". It looks as if they are slapping each other with their front legs haha. Instead of killing the other colony and being detrimental to the overall species' success, they find a way for both groups to survive and thrive!
... "Civilized territorial dispute" ( T-poses and begins to slap each other in the face until one backs down ) >)X^D
Almost 8 months since the last video. Where did the time go...Hope it was worth the wait!
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Honestly so glad youtube recommended this to me. I've been binge watching your videos all evening! All super interesting and presented in a calm, relaxing manner. Its also clear you are very knowledgable and have done your research on these ants. Keep up the good work.
just found your channel, always been interested in ants since a kid back in the 70s, fascinating little bastards, although back then i was a bit of a barbarian dealing with them, if i had the tech back then it would have been nice, anyway good for you and thanks for giving me something pleasant to watch. keep up the good work.
I found that the way of kickboxing to solve problems is most interesting about these meat ants. Also, their unique behaviour to accept other newly mated queens or caring for them is quite amazing.
The thing that interests me about meat ants, is that they tend to help other meat ant queens when they’re done with the nuptial flight and drop down to the ground. I have never heard anything like this before and it fascinates me. Meat ants really care for the survival of their species.
You posted the perfect video for me at the moment. I’ve been looking for meat ant info for a little while because I was thinking of getting a colony for my self
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The thing i find so interesting about meat ants is their cooperation together in forming different colonies. Sometimes cooperation is very important in life
Giveaway: My favorite thing about meat ants is how like army ants, new queens will sometimes be assisted by workers from similar colonies.
What interests me the most about meat ants is the way how they strategically choose the mutualistic relationships that benefit them the most. For example, when they stop protecting a tree and protect Its parasites instead because they give better amounts of food
What I find most interesting about meat ants is how they will help other Meat ant Queens build founding chambers. I just find that so nice of them! I really need that’s founding nest for my tetramorium queen! Love the work you do!!
I really like their social behaviour, including their way to expand and settle conflicts (within their own species)
The thing I found most interesting about Meat Ants is how they can help new queens make nests and can become part of the colony! I really love polygeny so this is a really cool thing I learned! Thanks Ants Australia!
The most interesting thing I find about meat ants is the fact that they can recognize and help a queen that was raised in their original colony and will help them start or add onto the colony.
The thing i find most interesting about meat ants is, the kickboxing! i think its really cool they dispute territory without killing eachother
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Meat ants have always fascinated me mainly due their being a large abundance of them all around my neighborhood especially at my school, and their fierce and relentless desire to protect their colony, sisters and mother from anything. Near the main entrance right next to the path, there is a massive meat ant nest that stretches about three meters across full of millions of hungry ravenous worker ants that appear every time someone strays near there nest for too long or when school ends..... They swam the path every afternoon causing people who unfortunately have to cross paths with them them to sprint in fear and hope they didn't mange to collect any stowaways in their shoes. But if you, one of the rare and unlucky ones who manged to gather a few new.....friends.....then you will certainly know as they bite you and tear at the tender flesh of your ankles in a desperate fury to protect their colony from a potential danger that is you. I also find it interesting that they can have many satellite nests, like at the nests at my school. I always thought these were rival nests and was confused as to why the smaller nests weren't decimated by the larger one, until I saw this video (thanks for clearing that up).
P.S: You make fantastic videos, especially the documentary's about all the weird and wonderful ant species. Also thank you for getting me into ant keeping as I have just got my first colony of adorable big headed ants in a test tube set up an i'm starting to build a all in one ant nest due to the tutorial you had post a while ago. If you find this story interesting I would love the helpful boost of winning that starter pack to move my ants into once they have got a few more workers.
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Absolutely great video, well done!
I do love the fact that worker ants from closely related colonies adopt the young queens as one of their own and help them dig their nests and even stick around after that
I really liked, how they kickbox each other instead of starting a war!
The "kickboxing" is like an anime fight where the fists are blurred because they're moving so fast.
I wanna see slow-mo footage of an ant kick-box fight.
Right on .. I too would love to see a Slow-mo ..if anyone knows of such a vid please share .. it would be greatly appreciated by many.
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I highly respect how they treat their queens. It's like a family trying to help out another family going From going through a rough moment so they can then support eachother.
I like that meat ants farm honeydew from other insects! It was really interesting to watch them do that in the video and it's cool that people aren't the only farmers around!
The way they eat seeds and kickbox they're amazing I love your channel
Love your videos! What I found really awesome about meat ants was the fact that the workers help new queens start up their collonies as satellite collonies to further strengthen their own chances and expand their range. Greetings from South Africa 😊🐜
What I found interesting about meat ants is that there so competitive to the point that they compete with equally competitive carpenter ants to the point where they even try to raid each other’s colony’s.
The thing I find the most interesting about Meat ants is that they "adopt" related queens back in the colony. I live in the Netherlands and the most common and here is the Lasius Niger, which would actually kill any other queen they would find, even if it's from their own family.
That fighting is also really interesting! It is so funny to watch and it made me chuckle during lunchbreak
What a informative well made documentary! You have my like for sure!
Since Ants Canada only does Clickbait and Fake-ant-drama nowadays you and nordic ants have become my favourite informative ant youtubers. Keep up the good work!
The poor dude does a decent job considering he has to produce an episode _every week._ Even with a large number of captive ant colonies, there's not THAT much exciting stuff going on to produce a quality 20 minute video every week. That being said, when interesting stuff actually does happen, he'll get it in his video. It's the philosophy of having 1 really good video every month, or 4-5 videos a month, only one or two of which is actually interesting. I'm not sure what the best thing is in terms of overall content quality, but as far as playing the UA-cam game goes and satiating the algorithm, posting regularly is probably the better move, even if it results in inconsistent quality.
@@theftking I agree. I can understand why Mike does what he does. However watching him feels to me like i am wasting my time when he tries to stretch material for 5 minutes into 20 minutes. I mean he has some success sohe must be doing something right. However i have grown tired of his kind of videos and will stick to the channels i mentioned above. By the way thx for your civilised reply. It is these kind of comments i feel its worth replying to. Have a great day, keep calm and Hail Hydra!
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Man, I just stumbled onto this video, but I am hugely impressed with the quality of it. Way to go! I really enjoyed it!
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What I found most interesting about them is the way they treat their own kind from different colonies.
Like how they would just boxing with other colony's meat ants for territory (I LOL at that part)and not killing each other, also how they help queens from another colony to settle down.
It's nice to see your video, it's been awhile :)
My favorite thing about meat ants is that they kick box to resolve issues so their is no deaths and also that they help out the new queens
Would love to see a camponotus video some time soon ! Great work !
Gotta love their little highways and satellite colonies! That level of cooperation and civic engineering is comparable to watching little nations growing in the underbrush, and paths are downright inspiring for their efficiency!
Wish they lived up here, I could watch these guys all day!
I really like ants, I love looking at them, I love observing them the ants is super smart, they are so brave, if it was me I would run away thanks for reading my comments!!!!😀
thats really insane. this got far better than expected
Ants have got to be one of the most bizarre creatures. The hive mind mentality is so fascinating that it's hard to believe these tiny dudes can orchestrate such higher functioning ways of living.
The most interesting thing about Meat Ants for me is the way they know how to keep their surroundings in check. With the honeydew, they know how much they can eat without the plant dying, but how? What indicators do they get? I find this so fascinating that the balance of nature is purely showcased by these meat ants. I would love to have this nest because I just found my first queen in April and she now has 4 workers, so I think it would soon be time to get an upgrade from her tiny test tube.
I like the way they kickbox and they dont kill their on species even though they're from different colonies
I love that they have pretty colors but still fit in the terrain and the boxing mathes to sort out problems (so they don't kill )
The most thing I find interesting about meat ants is that they are able to kickbox while I most certainly can't.
The most fascinating aspect of meat ants? How civilly they act toward other meat ants. Not just the nonviolent conflict resolution by kickboxing, but the way they take in and care for new queens, even if they weren't from the same nest. It's fascinating social behavior towards others who are the same species, but not from the same nest/family.
Thanks for a fascinating video! I just discovered you, and now I can't wait to check out your other videos!
How refreshing to find an ant video that doesn't have annoying over dramatic music blasting my ear drums.
I believe the one of the most interesting things about meat ants is how they interact with plants very often and how they work together with the leaf hoppers and how many different ways of getting food besides meat
What I found really amazing was how a mature colony could adopt new queens. Really fascinating!
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I think this video came up in the 'recommended' for me because I have subscribed to Boxing & Martial arts channels...
Go Aussie!
Holy crap! The production value of this video is through the rough!!! Well done! :D
I watched a colony of meat ants at my old house. There was a locust plague where I live & I'd catch them & chuck them on the nest. I liked watching them attack & grab the limbs & hold it & dismember the legs so it couldn't get away then drag it into the nest. They seemed a bit smart because they knew exactly how to disable it so it couldn't escape. A bit morbid I know but it was a great strategy to catch their food.
I used to catch meat ants when i was a kid and start little ant colonies in ice cream tubs full of soil, glad wrap over the top, and tubs connected with clear tubing so i could watch them walk between sections. The jaws are so impressive. They were the only ant that would cut through my skin when they bit
I like how they resemble humanity perfectly and that the kickboxing can be seen as sports and the different nests as countries! I definitely want to raise these beauties one day
By far my favorite thing about the meat ants is how they wage war against each other. Here in USA the ant wars lead to mass death and casualties to each colony, if not the demise of the losing colony. The fact that the meat ants “fight” and then go separate ways for the greater good of both colony’s is just amazing to see. It really shows how certain species have evolved to ensure the longevity of their colony.
what I find interesting about meat ants is that they will help the new Queen ants of the same species by either letting them into their nest or helping them build their own, and that after helping build that nest that they help raise her young and protect her.
I find it really interesting that they kickbox or stilt to combat rivals despite the fact that they’re so aggressive...same thing happens with myrmecocystus, and I though that they would just all fight to the death
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I find it amazing how they manage such massive colonies and how how they manage to feed every larvae in the colony.
Also i love the documentary series you have been doing!
It feels like ants are better at dealing with waste than humans. And I have to love how the meat ants can essentially make extensions to their own home by helping other queens. They're quite clever, considering I've not really seen such civilised encounters with other meat ants, and their care for even alien young meat ant queens. So, they're definitely interesting for their unique style of dealing with fellow meat ants.
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Finally a new video. Please make more whenever it's possible.
I find the kickboxing behavior very interesting and am very curious about how they determine a victor. The fact that meat ants are polygynous and will adopt closely related nanitic queens is also fascinating.
What I found most interesting about meat ants is that they'll adopt queens who may be related to them. It astonishes me because lots of ants will just see them as a food source even if they are from the same colony! I found it really intriguing that they would even help them construct there clostural chamber! I also found it very strange that they pose themselves more upright and raise their gaster as if they were going to formic acid spray the other meat ant.
I find it super interesting how sometimes the workers help setting up a founding chamber for young queens, that really is social behavior and I think it's really impressive!
The most interesting thing about them I find is how they settle territorial disputes with neighboring colonies
I grew up in Far north west Qld. So this is major meat ant home base. Common thing I found as a kid with meat ants, is they would have nests under termite mounds. So you would see the termite tower, standing about 30 to 60 cms tall. At the very base was a meat ant hole, of course they would pour out and attack you non stop. And being 8 to 10 years old I'd kick over the termite mounds, shock to discover it was always full of termites fighting long term siege like existence with the meat ant invaders.
I feel that the most interesting thing about meat ants is how civilized they are and how they will care for one of their young queens in need and even dig them a brood chamber, I think it’s really sweet.
A very informative and worthwhile film. Many thanks for helping all of us better understand the natural world
The most interesting thing I found about meat ants is how they have extremely complex behaviors for others, and how they help and care for the closely related queens, even far from them. I am deeply fascinated by this beautiful behavior.
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I literally feel more educated on this subject and I enjoyed myself while learning. Great vid. Liked and subscribed, looking forward to your future projects
I was fascinated by the fact that the meat ants will help a new queen start a satellite nest instead of transporting her back to the parent one. I don't think I've ever heard of ants doing that before and now that you mention it I'm going to be on the look out for it here with some North American species.
13:50 Lol they look like siblings slap-fighting
Pretty dope that despite the meat ants devouring virtually anything, they have the smarts to recognise that the dew from the bugs is the gift that keeps giving and defend them!
I love the fact that they help young Queens in there biginning stages
I'm pretty sure other species of the iridomyrmex genus kickbox when encountering the same kind, because I saw the iridomyrmex bicknelli in my backyard kickboxing
Ant Giveaway: The thing I find most interesting about Meat Ants is how they seem to prioritize the survival of the species over one's own colony. From avoiding conflict between other meat ants through ritual "fighting", to supporting and giving aid to newly mated queens who have recently embarked on nuptial flights. I find it amazing how Meat Ants seem to understand the greater importance of their species survival and well-being!
14:09 This ant is the anime villain licking his knife in the middle of the fight
Giveaway: Ants that tend other insects for honeydew are always interesting, but I particularly found their kickboxing dominance displays very interesting. That seems like a thing you only ever see in vertebrates, so seeing it in these ants is super cool.
These leaf hoppers are amazing. They have Gears and Goggs as part of their limbs which is how they hop, check them out....I was amazed
I got a huge smile on my face when you said if they find a queen they adopt them as ther own and start a satalite around the main nest. Imagine the feeling that main top queen gets when there are dosens of other nests with ther queens expanding ther borders.. crazy
you are one of the best ant youtubers
so interesting that the adopt queens from outside of the colony. This makes them stronger by increasing genetic diversity!
Wow, what a neat social structure! Helping and adopting other queens blew my mind!
1 thing ive noticed with these ants to regulate the temperature of the nest on cooler days they put dark stones on the top and on very hot days they put lighter stones (if you have a nest close by you can tell what the weather is going to be like the next day,
Did you mention that they don't sting? I remember as kids daring each other to stand on the meat ants nest as long as possible. which is until they reach your upper legs at which point you jump around and brush them off. At no point have I ever been stung, but they 'bite' onto your skin which doesnt actually hurt but can freak you out.
I will say, these ants have surprisingly good eyesight. If you startle a nest, you'll find the ants will swarm to the nearest unfamiliar object which I find quite surprising.
I saw a tral in a park in Sydney where EVERY other insect took the opposite side of the trail from them.
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Awesome video!
May I ask what sort of typically set-up you use for these shots (camera, lens, tripod, etc) ? Also, do you normally use any lighting to get these shots when filming? Many thanks!
:Narrator:The ants and the plants have a symbiotic relationship.
:My small mind: The ants are pricks and the plants are plants.
I think that it was awesome how they adopted the other queens
Awesome video about ants I just hope you posted more often!!!
This was fascinating. I’ve been watching jack jumpers in my yard and they’re really fun to watch too. Although pretty scary if you piss them off
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The most interesting for me is that they kick box instead of killing each other!
I wish every species was like that :/
In an area I lived in, these ants are very aggressive. They have huge nests and long ,wide trails with thousands of ants travelling along them.
If you walk along a path and the ants are going across the path, they will turn towards you...it's a bit freaky when thousands of ants that create a dark line across the path, then that line changes direction towards you. And can actually follow you if you change direction.
I find the meat ants interesting interesting they are commonly known as meat ants but primarily eat vegetation which is kinda weird and they. Thanks ants Australia
Thanks M8, awesome presentation. Hey I once found what appeared to be a dead meat ant nest / mound. It was about 30 metres from the road, in the heat of the day no activity at all, even after gentle disturbance. Surely that couldn't be possible?
I mean how could that happen?
I tell what I found out about meat ants, apart from most of the information you shared, thanks again, is that they offer an evolutionary fight back against cane toads. Fantastic news.
Great show 👍👍👍
The thing I think is most interesting about these ants is that they are so similar to the formica rufa species I know from Germany where I am from and which are part of my profession. I love how nature does the same things at the other end of the world without any kinship of the species.
Their social ways of fight over territory without killing and form satellite nests blew my mind. Ants are smart, could be amazing to care for my own
In Albanian there are ants that also build quite visible trails and clear out the area around their nest. Though I think that they mostly harvest grass seeds
Holy hell, you are still alive. I thought the ants got you, since you hadn't uploaded in 7 months.
I find how they act towards other ants the most interesting
The video quality, the high definition and excellent clips showing either hard to find or rare occurrences, this video was great! It must’ve taken a long time to make.
I love how intelligent these ants are. They seem a lot smarter than some other ant species in the way they resolve conflict and accept new queens. Remarkable!
I find the way how the Meat Ants resolve territorial problems with the strange way to kick box.
I never knew that they wold do that. By the way ,
I loved Your video.
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That dying yellow jacket looked sad :(
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