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  • Опубліковано 27 лис 2019
  • In the final days of empire, the colony is at its most vulnerable; and the Queen meets her final grisly end.
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    Natural World: Empire Of The Desert Ants
    Against the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona, Empire of the Desert Ants takes an in-your-face look at the violent world of desert honey ants by charting the fate of a single colony over several years as they battle all-comers for survival and dominance over the small patch of desert that is their world. Both the big picture and every minute detail are captured in this dramatic and fascinating film using the latest camera techniques and visual effects. Macro-photography shows the heart of their epic confrontations and the very core of life in the honey ant colony. Battle plans, defensive strategies and 'team' tactics are presented using the latest battlefield technologies. Also revealed are parallel worlds dominated by hidden forces - chemical weaponry, ultra-sonic sound, pheromones, ultra-violet and polarised light - as well as detailed characterisations of the different members of the colony.
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  • @eriana1147
    @eriana1147 4 роки тому +5023

    Me: Having a nice picnic.
    Ants: Battling over water, Beheading the queen, taking children for later consumption.

    • @atario7824
      @atario7824 4 роки тому +66

      „Beheading the queen“
      Where have I seen this before?

    • @Liuhuayue
      @Liuhuayue 4 роки тому +171

      @@atario7824 Basically European medieval history in a nutshell...

    • @Humanaut.
      @Humanaut. 4 роки тому +52

      Well, all of this happens to humans as well and we are connected to it via geopolitics and the global market.
      E.g. Displacement of war zones, human exploitation for resource extraction for western/indulstrialized countries use. Slavery/sex trafficking of refugees. Power struggles by corrupt governments/cartels etc.
      There is no cruelty in the animal kingdom that we do not find mirrored in the human realm.

    • @slicedlemons5925
      @slicedlemons5925 4 роки тому +32

      Ants are fucking ruthless

    • @sondrasue1855
      @sondrasue1855 4 роки тому +18

      OFF WITH HER HEAD

  • @Arklay_98
    @Arklay_98 4 роки тому +6986

    The brutality of war isn’t just a human thing.

    • @chadachi1353
      @chadachi1353 4 роки тому +161

      @@DeusVult87 you need to see my cats... They are washing eachother and after a hour total war on the exacly same spot they were on, beating the shit out of one another

    • @Arklay_98
      @Arklay_98 4 роки тому +4

      Nathan Breedlove true that

    • @Arklay_98
      @Arklay_98 4 роки тому +5

      Deus Vult it’s an art really lol

    • @jumpstart55million
      @jumpstart55million 4 роки тому +69

      @@DeusVult87 @Deus Vult Your sisters dogs were probably competing for your sisters attention and affection. Female dog's are known to get very territorial and jealous against other female canines in a household.

    • @kneegar7369
      @kneegar7369 4 роки тому +11

      Thats makes human are no different with animals...

  • @HeyBusterLuke
    @HeyBusterLuke Рік тому +2952

    As a kid in Australia I remember sitting watching an ant fight in the garden between groups of red and black ants. Next day I went to look again, and there was a big neat pyramid of dead black ants, and red ants dragging more dead black ones from holes in the ground and adding them to the pile. It seemed fascinatingly brutal - as I’d slept in my bed just metres away, this whole bleak and terrible night of tiny but merciless warfare and carnage had played out, and next day they were silently tidying up

    • @adu9422
      @adu9422 Рік тому +180

      Should have dropped in some ait support twigs lol

    • @sonic176yt7
      @sonic176yt7 Рік тому +58

      No black ants should win, that's what grounded told me

    • @costco_pizza
      @costco_pizza Рік тому +25

      Why didn't you HELP them????

    • @I_Eat_Lemons
      @I_Eat_Lemons Рік тому +75

      @@costco_pizza Why the hell would they help ANTS?

    • @historysyourbestfriend5500
      @historysyourbestfriend5500 Рік тому +197

      @@I_Eat_Lemons because the black ones are the nice ones. I don’t need red ants biting me every second they get.

  • @kaelo1447
    @kaelo1447 2 роки тому +888

    What kind of Game Of Thrones lives are these ants living?
    Holy shit that was dark.

    • @xseajin2055
      @xseajin2055 2 роки тому

      This sort of things happens today between humans, too. Particularly funded by the West, aggressively funding terrorists for imperialist gains.

    • @Alejandro-fr9jc
      @Alejandro-fr9jc 2 роки тому +50

      Look up hornets vs bees nest the entire insect kingdom is living in a GRR Martin novela lmao

    • @slvrshore5300
      @slvrshore5300 11 місяців тому +4

      welcome to editorializing and emotional conditioning. most sound effects, music and lightning/colors have been manipulated to enhance the drama and cinematicity.
      enjoy your stay :)

    • @gabrielpar3519
      @gabrielpar3519 10 місяців тому +1

      Have you ever heard about human history?

    • @AJARyan-yn2uv
      @AJARyan-yn2uv 10 місяців тому

      One where two idiots don’t fuck the writing up.

  • @micycles1200
    @micycles1200 3 роки тому +7915

    "Humans are the only beings that have war."
    Bugs: Annihilate a whole kingdom because a couple dudes got lost.

    • @maxtyler8993
      @maxtyler8993 3 роки тому +182

      @Jack Reacher Perhaps there is emotion. We just don't know.

    • @alexlopez515
      @alexlopez515 3 роки тому +29

      @@maxtyler8993 maybe

    • @FailedCommentator
      @FailedCommentator 3 роки тому +419

      They are basically cogged hiveminds...they are machines with only one purpose...
      "FOR THE COLONY"

    • @alexlopez515
      @alexlopez515 3 роки тому +15

      @@FailedCommentator Pretty much

    • @InsongWhang
      @InsongWhang 3 роки тому +42

      So, The Great Britan?

  • @leonesenpai
    @leonesenpai 4 роки тому +12914

    So the Empire is going to strike back is what you're saying.

    • @mitchmurray6323
      @mitchmurray6323 4 роки тому +506

      Execute order 66

    • @shengloongtan229
      @shengloongtan229 4 роки тому +144

      @@mitchmurray6323 messa call jarjar binks

    • @smuk123
      @smuk123 4 роки тому +194

      Antwan learns the power of the force after being the last survivor

    • @annjulee500
      @annjulee500 4 роки тому +23

      Leone Senpai
      Yeah...but no Yoda! :)

    • @arielsastre3899
      @arielsastre3899 4 роки тому +22

      Star Wars Ep. 99

  • @Medieval_Dead
    @Medieval_Dead Рік тому +987

    I had two small black ant colonies around my house. One lived within the cracks of the driveway, the other near the side of the house. They lived in relative peace with one another for over 10 years until one night I came outside and discovered a full blown war involving tens of thousands of ants was taking place.
    It was near impossible to see what was going one or who was winning. The battle consisted of two giant mounds fighting with smaller amounts fighting around the perimeters. Due to neither side having a physical advantage the strategy was 2v1 to eliminate a fighter. 1v1 fights were stalemates until another came along, checked to see which one was on their side and then the kill would happen. It was a war of numbers. Once a fighter was dead or disabled they would let the body go and the process would continue on throughout the night.
    I came out early the next morning eager to check on the progress of the war and a clear winner had been decided. The driveway ants came out victorious. They had now broken into two groups. One group was on body recovery while the other group was deemed the invasion force, driving into the nest of the defeated side house colony to kill off any straggles, clear out their stores and eliminate their queen. No quarter was taken, it was pure annihilation. This was about 4 years ago now and the driveway ants are still thriving to this day. Their story of struggle, famine, war and perseverance unknown to all but them. RIP to the side house colony, your energy lives on through the victors.

    • @frederickvanhelsun9315
      @frederickvanhelsun9315 Рік тому +15

      Stories

    • @mikesmith-wk7vy
      @mikesmith-wk7vy Рік тому +7

      get the amdro out

    • @StonerKitchen
      @StonerKitchen Рік тому +62

      You should write ant short stories

    • @isaiahferreira5267
      @isaiahferreira5267 Рік тому

      Write a book you goof

    • @KahluaBomb
      @KahluaBomb Рік тому +59

      You should write this tale, print it, and leave it with the house if you ever leave. It is deserving to note the deeds of the driveway clan of ants, history favors the bold.

  • @SeekGrace
    @SeekGrace Рік тому +8

    I wonder what they're saying to queen in ant language while ripping her apart.

  • @champ2.546
    @champ2.546 4 роки тому +1548

    A bugs life: honey isnt always sweet
    Rated-R, coming to a theater near you

    • @IvyG-C
      @IvyG-C 4 роки тому +3

      champ 2.5 oooOoooOooOooooOoOooo

    • @champ2.546
      @champ2.546 4 роки тому +1

      @@IvyG-C what is that?😂

    • @plugboijohnny
      @plugboijohnny 4 роки тому +4

      Lmao

    • @thepanman8
      @thepanman8 4 роки тому +24

      This is a great storyline. Pixar needs some violence to shake it up

    • @5065ca
      @5065ca 4 роки тому +4

      🤣

  • @Benskie
    @Benskie 4 роки тому +4633

    You: Relaxing and chilling outside.
    Ants: *SILENTLY STARTS WW3*

    • @teamvlcn6820
      @teamvlcn6820 4 роки тому +159

      They're at WW300 at this point.

    • @Gavolak
      @Gavolak 4 роки тому +94

      Team VLCN ants have existed as a species for 92 million years. It’s at least world war 30,000,000,000,000

    • @errorsans6208
      @errorsans6208 4 роки тому +9

      I can start war world
      100000000000000000 with the ants

    • @milkywater5531
      @milkywater5531 4 роки тому

      I literally just died

    • @potsy5263
      @potsy5263 4 роки тому

      Reee!

  • @chubbbyninja
    @chubbbyninja Рік тому +23

    That’s crazy that they live side by side for years with no problem whatsoever yet as soon as they find out about their existence they’re just not having any of it

  • @bozoforce
    @bozoforce Рік тому +44

    The camera ant never dies. He always gets the best footage. Crawling past the front lines to document and record the brutality of War.

  • @frankmorin9803
    @frankmorin9803 4 роки тому +3564

    “Her empire still lives”......
    Boi I can’t wait to get recommended for the second part....

  • @brandonxiongd7031
    @brandonxiongd7031 4 роки тому +2727

    ants: *fight underground*
    camera men: "lemme just noclip through this real quick"

  • @anaditullio
    @anaditullio Рік тому +3

    The epic soundtrack adds a special touch to this gruesome war documentary

  • @guilhermeleite3470
    @guilhermeleite3470 9 місяців тому +5

    7:30 “The queen may be dead, but her empire lives on” wow 🔥

  • @dum1127
    @dum1127 4 роки тому +1770

    Them ants be acting out
    “Daughters what are you doing!?”
    “Succeeding you...”

  • @jsthecanuck6804
    @jsthecanuck6804 4 роки тому +3648

    you’d think the title overdramaticised it but the invading ants literally executed the queen medeival style

    • @buggeta694
      @buggeta694 4 роки тому +117

      Nobody:
      Marie Antoinette: First time?

    • @otomackena7610
      @otomackena7610 4 роки тому +39

      Beheading as a capital punishment is still practiced in Saudi Arabia

    • @thegoodfather1177
      @thegoodfather1177 4 роки тому +10

      @@suprememasteroftheuniverse how is it fake?

    • @MadGameHouse
      @MadGameHouse 4 роки тому +6

      They even had an ant-sized guillotine !

    • @qawsqnick1217
      @qawsqnick1217 4 роки тому +12

      @@suprememasteroftheuniverse I'm sorry it's fake? Source on that? I think you may be the defeated ants trying to save face

  • @funnocap1092
    @funnocap1092 2 роки тому +99

    “The queen may be dead, but the empire lives.”
    Literal goosebumps 💀

  • @drungaodys5610
    @drungaodys5610 Рік тому +29

    The narrator nailed himself with the ending, making it sound epic as hell. "A storm marked their beginning and now its end"

  • @alinelks2599
    @alinelks2599 4 роки тому +9562

    Opened the video for curiosity, stayed for the dramatic narration.

    • @sharondalewis1620
      @sharondalewis1620 4 роки тому +45

      Yeah, I like the slow mo wing flapping lol

    • @Penelope416
      @Penelope416 4 роки тому +51

      I know! Dude got a good voice. He sounded so into it!

    • @Caramelnapkin
      @Caramelnapkin 4 роки тому +25

      You know it’s about to be good when there’s dramatic narration

    • @kimlane7157
      @kimlane7157 4 роки тому

      @@Caramelnapkin don't assume.

    • @masterchief4189
      @masterchief4189 4 роки тому

      Yah

  • @meritdavey8732
    @meritdavey8732 2 роки тому +6989

    “Some dead workers are carried off for processing.”
    Amazon Corporate: “Write that down! Write that down!”

  • @andrerichards7808
    @andrerichards7808 9 місяців тому +2

    While watching this I can't help but feel that there are entities out there watching us humans in a similar way that we watch these ants and their stories.

    • @eggheadusa9900
      @eggheadusa9900 9 місяців тому

      Most humans used to think this before the dawn of atheism

    • @greggstrasser5791
      @greggstrasser5791 9 місяців тому

      @@eggheadusa9900
      Glad these douchebag Atheists were able to usher in a new day and make this place less of a shithole.

  • @jesusceballos7277
    @jesusceballos7277 9 місяців тому +13

    I’ve never seen something so thrilling.
    This wasn’t a recording of ants.
    This was ART.

  • @GameboySX04
    @GameboySX04 4 роки тому +18831

    Imagine doing all this work to kill this colony and then some kid comes and jumps on you or pours water on you

  • @Treflip22
    @Treflip22 4 роки тому +3010

    But they stand no chance against my sharpie circle

    • @lemonke7522
      @lemonke7522 4 роки тому +17

      Lmao

    • @TazHall
      @TazHall 4 роки тому +7

      😂😂😂

    • @michibmoon
      @michibmoon 4 роки тому +3

      😂

    • @nursenatedawg
      @nursenatedawg 4 роки тому +43

      Treflip and my magnifying glass on a sunny day

    • @ryan.j113
      @ryan.j113 4 роки тому +28

      This man out here with straight war tactics

  • @valleriplumley5563
    @valleriplumley5563 Рік тому +92

    I am emotionally invested in the lives and wellbeing of these ants.

  • @mastertoki1
    @mastertoki1 Рік тому +7

    Queen: oh god please somebody help me!
    cameraman: whatta scoop!

  • @justins7796
    @justins7796 4 роки тому +4013

    this is how Game of Thrones should've ended

    • @Arshika792
      @Arshika792 4 роки тому +9

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @leohawkins4734
      @leohawkins4734 4 роки тому +104

      Imma tell my kids this was season 7-8.

    • @bballClipss
      @bballClipss 4 роки тому +26

      This is how Hong Kong is going to end, if no one resists China

    • @gh0st_proxy
      @gh0st_proxy 4 роки тому +14

      All that's missing is a CGI dragonfly.

    • @cloudsoflilac9731
      @cloudsoflilac9731 4 роки тому +12

      I'd accept any other way than the original ending, that sucked ass 😭

  • @rohankurani4974
    @rohankurani4974 4 роки тому +17332

    Let’s be honest, no one searched this.

  • @DrFouFou
    @DrFouFou 10 місяців тому +7

    It’s insane how ants have strategized raids and pillages all the time

  • @alexhb12333
    @alexhb12333 Рік тому +1

    Can we appreciate the foley artists that had to make tons of mini ant footstep sounds?

  • @tobbe1980
    @tobbe1980 4 роки тому +5646

    My nightmare is to be born as an ant in my next life.

    • @tobbe1980
      @tobbe1980 4 роки тому +103

      @Logan Vonderhaar true, Only instincts. But they must feel pain right?😏

    • @naimablanc8519
      @naimablanc8519 4 роки тому +30

      I want to be born as a girl again

    • @waspoppin4784
      @waspoppin4784 4 роки тому +40

      Torbjörn Ljung hey you ever heard of Hunter X Hunter Chimera ant arc

    • @xineraliouse9848
      @xineraliouse9848 4 роки тому +41

      Or any kind of animal, birds or insect, everyone is each other's food, you don't know when you will become someone food, but being born as Hyena would be nightmare for anyone wether male or female.

    • @abhishekpokhrel9658
      @abhishekpokhrel9658 4 роки тому +5

      @@xineraliouse9848 what about hyena?

  • @natejpc
    @natejpc 4 роки тому +4169

    Nobody:
    Ant-survivor with a camera: The people need to know what happened here.

    • @phil8516
      @phil8516 4 роки тому +11

      Memes been killed to death

    • @graphite7898
      @graphite7898 4 роки тому +47

      Can the nobody meme just die already

    • @C0ND3V1L
      @C0ND3V1L 4 роки тому +4

      CGI

    • @ollyaintjolly1249
      @ollyaintjolly1249 4 роки тому +21

      @@graphite7898 I know, the joke usually works just fine without "Nobody:"

    • @ennieminymoo6675
      @ennieminymoo6675 4 роки тому +5

      Can we just appreciate the funny joke? There are people who also use the meme and are not even funny

  • @redstonepig0850
    @redstonepig0850 Рік тому +2

    I love how the birds make it sound so peaceful but the music is like DUN DUN DUN.

  • @snapman218
    @snapman218 Рік тому +1

    If there’s any I learned it’s that a high resolution camera, a British accent, and some dramatic music can make anything interesting

  • @stevennatera8876
    @stevennatera8876 3 роки тому +2962

    Those few ants that started a fight got his whole colony annihilated

    • @syphonfilterhitgaming6945
      @syphonfilterhitgaming6945 3 роки тому +154

      Remind you of any other species...?

    • @SrRurik
      @SrRurik 3 роки тому +103

      Don't start none won't be none. - Invader Ants Prolly.

    • @jacobherring7736
      @jacobherring7736 3 роки тому +93

      Shouldn't have been talking shit

    • @orven_lou
      @orven_lou 3 роки тому +36

      No, I think the colony's end is inevitable, but they made it sooner though. It's the drought that decided their fate.

    • @randompheidoleminor3011
      @randompheidoleminor3011 3 роки тому +15

      @@syphonfilterhitgaming6945 reminds me of pretty much all members of Kingdom Animalia

  • @pwareham61
    @pwareham61 3 роки тому +4251

    Utterly compelling, the narrator made it sound like the fall of the Roman empire, or world war 2.

    • @muzankibutsuji7377
      @muzankibutsuji7377 3 роки тому +90

      I am surprised how do they flim these.

    • @lordofwhip
      @lordofwhip 3 роки тому +58

      @@muzankibutsuji7377 looks like those tube cameras that they usee in medicine

    • @lga9436
      @lga9436 3 роки тому +58

      Like how the aliens observe us thtoughout our history lol

    • @switch-no-comply778
      @switch-no-comply778 3 роки тому +2

      Anyone know the opening music?

    • @anshul9462
      @anshul9462 3 роки тому +36

      How the hell the camera went so deep inside without disturbing and disrupting. Wonderful job.

  • @insecurefro9398
    @insecurefro9398 2 роки тому +19

    this is singlehandedly the most gruesome and traumatic thing I've ever seen...and the fact that the narration makes this even better and adds that dramatic flair! Great stuff, incredible channel.

  • @dontcaredidntask.
    @dontcaredidntask. 9 місяців тому +4

    I was just thinking..! How talented! We are so lucky some people spend their time working on giving us the best images . It's a privilege to see the world of bugs from such a close angle. Thank you

  • @danishnick2002
    @danishnick2002 4 роки тому +1545

    This battle was better than any I've ever seen from Hollywood.

    • @KingBr33ch
      @KingBr33ch 4 роки тому +5

      Avengers had some pretty cool fights but i guess

    • @chrishudson3798
      @chrishudson3798 4 роки тому +8

      Have you seen lord of the rings?

    • @byob7728
      @byob7728 4 роки тому

      Well you have bad taste in film i see

    • @mfanal5916
      @mfanal5916 4 роки тому +5

      BR33CH HD
      Yeah sure... if you’re 5 years old

    • @superpaytonmars8852
      @superpaytonmars8852 4 роки тому +1

      What about aliens?

  • @ytmndan
    @ytmndan 4 роки тому +3209

    Narrator: Ant genocide. No survivors. Total devastation.
    Audience: Yo, how’d you even film that?

    • @idisrxspect6584
      @idisrxspect6584 4 роки тому +63

      1234567 probably a camera on a wire put into the nest or they have a glass wall to see into the nest from the side

    • @ruwibiduya9589
      @ruwibiduya9589 4 роки тому +155

      They actually film these kind of video using an ant farm terrarium, they attached a fixed camera besides a glass wall to directly view the colony.
      The film outside the colony are pre-recorded videos of natural colonies while internal colonies are filmed with ant farms, pretty much this are just camera tricks to fool people to think they're still watching a natural events vs man-made events. Lol
      Edit: There used to be a documentary on how people do this at National Geographic and Animal Planet long ago, I think you guys can still see it if you google ;)

    • @yughesyugu2393
      @yughesyugu2393 4 роки тому +1

      @@ruwibiduya9589 ikr

    • @seismicdisturbance1757
      @seismicdisturbance1757 4 роки тому +7

      Just coat your camera so the ants will carry it home for you. Then you find their nest!!
      Track the device and root it in place. Start recording.

    • @nickpurnell2769
      @nickpurnell2769 4 роки тому +1

      @@ruwibiduya9589 so the queen lives

  • @percyjackson7651
    @percyjackson7651 2 роки тому

    Thank you for filming this !!

  • @floof1864
    @floof1864 Рік тому +6

    Incredible photography, very well done.

  • @slash3503
    @slash3503 4 роки тому +20065

    crazy to think that battles like this happen every day just outside your house.
    It's been a long war for over a full year now, these are war torn battle grounds. Enter at your own risk for you have been warned.

    • @mohammedqadir1913
      @mohammedqadir1913 4 роки тому +129

      s l a s h lol

    • @joesmith5159
      @joesmith5159 4 роки тому +141

      when people say there is a god i tell them to watch these crazy animal/insect videos

    • @Axxxel_in_Harlem
      @Axxxel_in_Harlem 4 роки тому +402

      @@joesmith5159 ...And? They further prove that GOD exists. This is sooo intricately designed, there's no way all of this came out of nowhere.

    • @danielcastaneda2983
      @danielcastaneda2983 4 роки тому +32

      @@Axxxel_in_Harlem which God? Or is it THE GOD?

    • @Axxxel_in_Harlem
      @Axxxel_in_Harlem 4 роки тому +150

      @@danielcastaneda2983 There's only 1 GOD. It's pointless to use "The" here.

  • @Seraphinus112
    @Seraphinus112 4 роки тому +5390

    Game of thrones: ant edition

    • @intialmayhem6973
      @intialmayhem6973 4 роки тому +124

      Game of thrones wish it had a epic ending like this

    • @qwerty842
      @qwerty842 4 роки тому +53

      better ending than season 8

    • @vinayakchavan3941
      @vinayakchavan3941 4 роки тому +1

      Arya is still alive.

    • @sosmooth13
      @sosmooth13 4 роки тому +15

      I sense betrayal. One of those coral ants sold out the colony lol

    • @toastcrunch9387
      @toastcrunch9387 4 роки тому +3

      The ants were doing it first. And better.

  • @8383kathy
    @8383kathy 2 роки тому

    This is the most intriguing clip I have watched in years. The sound is also amazing

  • @syedakram6934
    @syedakram6934 Рік тому +2

    The biggest takeaway from this is, Be the cameraman if you want to suvive any war.

  • @justsomeguywithasurprisede4059
    @justsomeguywithasurprisede4059 4 роки тому +2820

    *_"Everything was fine until the Desert Nation attacked"_*

    • @neondisguise1587
      @neondisguise1587 4 роки тому +20

      *Everything was fine, until that fateful day...*

    • @hranghlei
      @hranghlei 4 роки тому +14

      What do we call the ant Avatar?

    • @justanothermind9449
      @justanothermind9449 4 роки тому +8

      @@neondisguise1587 you must be one of those who wipes standing up then throws the dirty toilet paper into a garbage can next to your toilet. oh thats me nvm

    • @ashishnair1659
      @ashishnair1659 4 роки тому

      Spice is power!

    • @toso69420
      @toso69420 4 роки тому +1

      @@hranghlei *Avatar Ant*

  • @j.ritter619
    @j.ritter619 3 роки тому +5127

    It would help if each team didn’t wear the same uniform.

    • @TheLegendryZelda
      @TheLegendryZelda 3 роки тому +61

      agreed

    • @Ysumbruh0
      @Ysumbruh0 3 роки тому +116

      They probably know who’s who by smell and other things

    • @j.ritter619
      @j.ritter619 3 роки тому +271

      @@Ysumbruh0 I appreciate that youre trying to expand my knowledge on ant tracking and recognition through the use of pheromones brother. I really do. But serious question for you...do you know what a joke is?

    • @kumasire4430
      @kumasire4430 3 роки тому +59

      @@j.ritter619 fun fact: do you know floor is made out of floor

    • @j.ritter619
      @j.ritter619 3 роки тому +87

      @@kumasire4430 Wait. For real? I had no idea that floors are made of the same stuff used for flooring floors. Wow. That floored me lol.

  • @Sarobi
    @Sarobi Рік тому +5

    The fact that ants do this and also know how to coordinate and perform team executions is really blowing my mind.

  • @XxSOULLESSxX
    @XxSOULLESSxX 11 місяців тому +19

    I lost my family in this attack. We will never forget. An ant never forgets.

  • @opperred5804
    @opperred5804 3 роки тому +6220

    Bruh can these guys wear like coloured shirts, I can’t tell whose who.

  • @GustavoLago
    @GustavoLago 3 роки тому +3815

    My boring life would sound amazing with this narrator: "He feels compelled to sleep... The sofa looks like the perfect place to do so... "

  • @jtbush
    @jtbush Рік тому +4

    It’s stories like these is what makes me so fascinated by ants.

  • @faraam7111
    @faraam7111 2 роки тому +17

    "The Queen might be dead... But her Empire lives on..." chills man

  • @lionheart7762
    @lionheart7762 4 роки тому +2542

    Me: **is thirsty** **walks to the sink**
    Ants: **are thirsty** **get massacred by a tribe of cannibals and thrown from their throne and dismembered**

    • @michaelmathews4103
      @michaelmathews4103 4 роки тому +5

      Suspicious Ned Flanders Do u rly think that. Humans were never like ants lol. We have a conscious.

    • @zachg2410
      @zachg2410 4 роки тому +51

      Michael Mathews If you mean humans were never cannibals than your wrong, much of Africa, and South America, as recently as the last few decades, have practiced some form of human consumption. If you mean humans have never tried to wipe out another group of people, then I point out the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. If you mean humans never fought over resources, then I point you to nearly every conflict in world history. If you mean people never fought over different monarchs or rules like the ants, then I point you to Europe for the period between 900-1940CE. Most of human history is filled with examples of barbarism in the extreme, and it is only in the most recent century or so that much of the world is now civilized or making strides towards civilization. A conscious doesn’t exactly separate us from the ants behaviorally for most of history, it just makes us realize that it was immoral to treat others like that.

    • @zachg2410
      @zachg2410 4 роки тому +38

      Michael Mathews I can tell you are very educated for using examples, actually answering all those points I made, and not insulting me randomly. Thank you for being a good person and not one of those online idiots we see so often. Sincerely, “bitch”

    • @splitdragon3004
      @splitdragon3004 4 роки тому +9

      *CoughsinAztec*

    • @michaelmathews4103
      @michaelmathews4103 4 роки тому

      The Insequent AHa np bitch

  • @MrDboi1236
    @MrDboi1236 4 роки тому +3201

    I’m going outside to feed my ants right now. We aren’t going to lose to the neighbors. Dropping care packages as i type.

    • @kaiohitsuji287
      @kaiohitsuji287 4 роки тому +28

      Ant friends

    • @MrDboi1236
      @MrDboi1236 4 роки тому +6

      kai ohitsuji shoulder shrugs

    • @MrDboi1236
      @MrDboi1236 4 роки тому +5

      Kim Jong-Un El Glande lol just a little

    • @blessethishe
      @blessethishe 4 роки тому +66

      I just gave my ants the ultimate weapon. I sneeze covid 19 into the ant colony.

    • @justyouraveragehumans22
      @justyouraveragehumans22 4 роки тому +23

      I occasionally bring out some sugar for the local yard ants

  • @Orc-icide
    @Orc-icide Рік тому +1

    4:00 WAIT, SO THEY JUST PULL EACH OTHER APART? Mother nature never ceases to amaze.

  • @deedee6460
    @deedee6460 2 роки тому +1

    Outstanding footage

  • @kodiibearv
    @kodiibearv 3 роки тому +2434

    this wouldn't have been nearly as interesting without this narrator. he made it sound like the damn romanov execution.

    • @gianmac3361
      @gianmac3361 3 роки тому +10

      Lmai

    • @romdog1818
      @romdog1818 3 роки тому +59

      @@gianmac3361
      Don't do that, you'll implode.

    • @sergiolares4285
      @sergiolares4285 3 роки тому +7

      Don't say the Lord name in vain. Keep it Holy.

    • @gianmac3361
      @gianmac3361 3 роки тому +2

      @@sergiolares4285 ok

    • @kodiibearv
      @kodiibearv 3 роки тому +3

      @@sergiolares4285 my bad bro

  • @mannhattannight2587
    @mannhattannight2587 3 роки тому +3629

    Imagine an ant coming home to his whole colony eaten.

    • @shyyzy7492
      @shyyzy7492 3 роки тому +156

      Ant that came back from foraging:imma pretend I didn’t see that

    • @srikarprayaga2534
      @srikarprayaga2534 3 роки тому +45

      Aight imma head out

    • @acoolpotato3243
      @acoolpotato3243 3 роки тому +119

      GUYS GUYS I FOUND WATE- guys?

    • @svyt
      @svyt 3 роки тому +6

      Day of the Condor

    • @nileshmeshram4708
      @nileshmeshram4708 3 роки тому +37

      That sounds like an anime plot😯

  • @thomaslee420
    @thomaslee420 Рік тому +1

    “This water is a life saver”
    YOUR VOICE IS A LIFE SAVER!!!

  • @JesseTrapp66
    @JesseTrapp66 Рік тому

    Greatest cameraman alive!! Spectacular simply Spectacular 👌

  • @princejawfree447
    @princejawfree447 4 роки тому +3320

    Can you imagine being like a scout ant, gone on a mission for hours or days or something, and then coming back to find that your home has been destroyed and your friends/family killed?

    • @itsjustme5097
      @itsjustme5097 4 роки тому +517

      Sounds like the beginning of some crazy backstory where that ant seeks out his revenge but understands he isnt strong enough to take them on so he starts working out then gets abnormally strong and finally returns to his homeland and tracks down where the enemy ant colony lies He then brutally massacred all of them but leaves the larvae out of mercy He starts a family and a colony is built The larvae that were left behind then grow up to repeat the cycle

    • @A-small-amount-of-peas
      @A-small-amount-of-peas 4 роки тому +152

      A bit like Ridley Scott's Gladiator. I am ANTimus Decimus Meridius. Father to a murdered son, Husband to a murdered wife and i shall have my vengeance in this life or the next 😂 🐜 ⚔

    • @Andy-kz7nu
      @Andy-kz7nu 4 роки тому +60

      Sounds like Sasuke in Naruto.

    • @ryanjones9498
      @ryanjones9498 4 роки тому +11

      Then like Rambo he drives into town and starts shooting buildings

    • @beanbag3769
      @beanbag3769 4 роки тому +1

      OFF JACK bish turn it into a movie

  • @about80ninjas
    @about80ninjas 4 роки тому +1506

    Corral Ants: * look for water *
    Angry Ants: So you have chosen *DEATH*

  • @connoraxon8741
    @connoraxon8741 2 роки тому

    The narration is just amazing

  • @MetallicaKing48
    @MetallicaKing48 Рік тому +2

    Humans: “Prepare for another civil war or WW3!”
    Ants: “That’s cute.”

  • @jacknoymer5093
    @jacknoymer5093 4 роки тому +3664

    Can’t believe that BBC was able to hire an ant cameraman. Crazy stuff, but I’m glad they’re getting employed

    • @Joy-sp5mw
      @Joy-sp5mw 4 роки тому +170

      I agree it’s good to see that they’re finally employing the black community

    • @yurif2884
      @yurif2884 4 роки тому +100

      @@Joy-sp5mw black and red

    • @singggpi
      @singggpi 4 роки тому +24

      Hi Hi and gray

    • @bigratswagginsswaggins6085
      @bigratswagginsswaggins6085 4 роки тому +21

      @@singggpi and neon teal

    • @girlsdrinkfeck
      @girlsdrinkfeck 4 роки тому +15

      @@Joy-sp5mw finally ? the BBC employ far too many non whites ,in their programmes there r more non whites than native brits ,its dumb ,im so glad i dont pay my TV licence , bbC are anti white racists

  • @wy4553
    @wy4553 4 роки тому +2535

    These damn character designs are so similar you can't tell who's on whose side!

    • @angelaabrams9108
      @angelaabrams9108 4 роки тому +107

      You gotta turn on smell-o-vision.

    • @hypermodkid
      @hypermodkid 4 роки тому +33

      Right!! I'm like. Aren't you guys on the same team?

    • @Santiago-5107
      @Santiago-5107 4 роки тому +13

      To an untrained eye they all look the same. Not to the camera man and director of this epic movie.

    • @arcadejunkie3930
      @arcadejunkie3930 4 роки тому +16

      Ant Racist!

    • @1don468
      @1don468 4 роки тому +12

      Frl bruh at one point I was like they winning and then I'm like wait which one is which , then the narrator "oh what a brutal end "

  • @rebeccanagawa3253
    @rebeccanagawa3253 2 роки тому

    The narration is spot on.

  • @osks
    @osks 2 роки тому +7

    Brilliantly filmed and beautifully narrated!

  • @ar4imond
    @ar4imond 3 роки тому +4422

    Humans: "Cannibalism, massacre, genocide!"
    Ants: "Tuesday."

    • @Raison_d-etre
      @Raison_d-etre 3 роки тому +7

      It was not a genocide, not this video anyway.

    • @toserveman9317
      @toserveman9317 3 роки тому +118

      @@Raison_d-etre
      If the queen was killed it was literally genocide since survivor drones can't pass their surviving strategy /reflex on.

    • @justinflowers9380
      @justinflowers9380 2 роки тому +37

      @@toserveman9317 It was also technically Regicide. If you think about it.

    • @bsw6315
      @bsw6315 2 роки тому +7

      @george ivory. Underrated comment

    • @tiny99990
      @tiny99990 2 роки тому +6

      @@toserveman9317 it says at the end that the queens daughters were still alive and facing their own struggles.

  • @jayfeezal8773
    @jayfeezal8773 4 роки тому +2179

    *Bruh this New Bugs Life Trailer is not PG-13*

    • @Taystee
      @Taystee 4 роки тому +9

      *live action bugs life*

    • @gothmommyshmu
      @gothmommyshmu 4 роки тому +2

      *Can't wait till it's released*

    • @peachyroo1714
      @peachyroo1714 4 роки тому

      Oof

    • @crowned2088
      @crowned2088 4 роки тому +1

      @Tre So this isn't the new Call of duty trailer!!??

  • @nlimchua
    @nlimchua 11 місяців тому

    jaw-droppingly amazing footage!

  • @antnewsreporter5752
    @antnewsreporter5752 4 роки тому +41073

    If you're wondering who filmed this, it was me.

    • @lilholm9446
      @lilholm9446 4 роки тому +2690

      Great job

    • @salimabdulhakim405
      @salimabdulhakim405 4 роки тому +748

      How

    • @jacobbaker2316
      @jacobbaker2316 4 роки тому +2319

      You were the traitor

    • @antnewsreporter5752
      @antnewsreporter5752 4 роки тому +3845

      @@jacobbaker2316 the only way to survive is being the camera man ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @antnewsreporter5752
      @antnewsreporter5752 4 роки тому +2033

      @David Kurkowski nothing much, one male ant was caught flying over our colony. We took it down with our R.A.I.D.S (Radio Active Insect Defence System) and ate it. Nothing was wasted.

  • @alexschemel4027
    @alexschemel4027 4 роки тому +2218

    This should’ve been the last season of Game of Thrones. Take notes HBO

    • @aswadj1
      @aswadj1 4 роки тому +11

      Alex Schemel Facts‼️

    • @GAZAMAN93X
      @GAZAMAN93X 4 роки тому +27

      Not HBO. They wanted it to be longer. Blame D&D

    • @razorlazer716
      @razorlazer716 4 роки тому +3

      Jill's Sandwiches I wonder what bobby b would say about this video?

    • @lexx5313
      @lexx5313 4 роки тому +7

      No kidding! Ants get better better lighting and story!

    • @DavidGarcia-oi5nt
      @DavidGarcia-oi5nt 4 роки тому +2

      @@razorlazer716 GOD'S I WAS STRONG THEN

  • @chriscoleman5238
    @chriscoleman5238 2 роки тому

    Great shots. Narrator harnesses dramatic words like the great orators of old.

  • @willsith9762
    @willsith9762 Рік тому +3

    You can't convince me this wasn't made using no-clip.
    And dear Lord the world of insects is brutal as hell

  • @dadshoe7607
    @dadshoe7607 3 роки тому +3079

    I feel like I’m watching a medieval war documentary, but with ants

    • @crongnaktheannihilator2341
      @crongnaktheannihilator2341 3 роки тому +5

      What do you think of Kawhi Leonard’s new balance shoe mr dad shoe

    • @xepiloguex
      @xepiloguex 3 роки тому

      Lol

    • @TheOrangeRoad
      @TheOrangeRoad 3 роки тому +48

      Medieval? No, this shit is even darker. We're talking Khan, or Viking style warfare.

    • @Janine.Najarian
      @Janine.Najarian 3 роки тому +1

      Yup

    • @ilikecod6758
      @ilikecod6758 3 роки тому +13

      @@TheOrangeRoad the queen had a medieval torture devices style death.

  • @ruchshanewilliamson5697
    @ruchshanewilliamson5697 4 роки тому +823

    Imagine playing dead and hear the ant leader say "EAT THE DEAD ONES ON THE SPOT"

    • @babyree2901
      @babyree2901 4 роки тому +17

      Not Snivy this needs more likes 😂😂

    • @ruchshanewilliamson5697
      @ruchshanewilliamson5697 4 роки тому +6

      @@babyree2901 😂😂😂

    • @meancookie89
      @meancookie89 4 роки тому +1

      That’s crazy

    • @pebble8978
      @pebble8978 4 роки тому +1

      hahaha

    • @didiash4583
      @didiash4583 4 роки тому +18

      @Max1982 yup. Until the cap said "Cut off her arms and legs! We just need her holes!"

  • @SARDELASCHRISTOS1978
    @SARDELASCHRISTOS1978 2 роки тому

    Excellent work of cinematography art!

  • @stickthatinyourpipeandsmok2457
    @stickthatinyourpipeandsmok2457 2 роки тому +1

    Fantastic doco!

  • @rileymiller7012
    @rileymiller7012 3 роки тому +1561

    Ants: having a war
    Some psychopath with liquid metal:
    A I G H T I T ‘ S G A M I N G T I M E

    • @soma3487
      @soma3487 3 роки тому +6

      That profile picture

    • @sebg5528
      @sebg5528 3 роки тому +1

      It's only anime were ok... Right?

    • @ginjajinja9424
      @ginjajinja9424 3 роки тому +4

      Ahaha yeah only an anime .__.

    • @123fourfive5
      @123fourfive5 3 роки тому +1

      Is that referring to cooling the CPUs of gaming computers with liquid metal?

    • @Concerned_Custodian
      @Concerned_Custodian 3 роки тому

      Nice hentai.

  • @stevebuscemi5544
    @stevebuscemi5544 3 роки тому +3458

    French Monarchy: “first time?”

  • @abcde_fz
    @abcde_fz 9 місяців тому

    I have to keep reminding myself that all this action INSIDE the colony
    is taking place in near total darkness. Fascinating...

  • @patrickantony4249
    @patrickantony4249 Рік тому +1

    I remember. In my former student apartment i had two ant nests. Little black ants in the bath/toilet and orange/black ant in the kitchen. I only saw a few ant here and there.
    One evening i was watching TV and i saw in the corner of my eye something moving. i turn on the light and there was a huge ant battlefield in my room o.O

  • @zawarudo213
    @zawarudo213 3 роки тому +2139

    Imagine the PTSD the ant camera man must've had while watching his brothers and queen die.

    • @andrewmitchell5807
      @andrewmitchell5807 3 роки тому +20

      Kind of missed the definition of PTSD there

    • @lazwit5513
      @lazwit5513 3 роки тому

      @@andrewmitchell5807 How so?

    • @lazwit5513
      @lazwit5513 3 роки тому +5

      @@andrewmitchell5807 Nevermind, I see the error.

    • @ahmadkamil3713
      @ahmadkamil3713 3 роки тому +1

      @@lazwit5513 please explain!

    • @lazwit5513
      @lazwit5513 3 роки тому +22

      @@ahmadkamil3713 He says "Imagine the PTSD the and camera man must've had WHILE watching his brothers and queen die." You can't have PTSD while the thing that gave you PTSD is in the process of occuring. Considering PTSD is a trauma of the past and not the present.

  • @RubenEditIT
    @RubenEditIT Рік тому

    That voice also, makes it even better!

  • @caryt59
    @caryt59 9 місяців тому

    Never knew that one can get so much drama out of warring ant colonies! The music was perfect!

  • @samtheman7642
    @samtheman7642 4 роки тому +1913

    When you go to grab a drink but accidentally lead an army back home

    • @metehantanis3406
      @metehantanis3406 4 роки тому +22

      Lmfao I laughed more than I should💀💀

    • @spacecadetlostintransit
      @spacecadetlostintransit 4 роки тому +21

      I’m now gonna pour buckets of water outside my house to help the ants

    • @samtheman7642
      @samtheman7642 4 роки тому +13

      TheHollowEyed Comrade no don’t, you’ll start World War Ants

    • @--NOT-OKAY
      @--NOT-OKAY 4 роки тому +4

      Oh yeah I hate when that happens

    • @grimreaper9939
      @grimreaper9939 4 роки тому +1

      @@--NOT-OKAY oof your name I'm gonna call it lol.

  • @Pr0phetless
    @Pr0phetless 3 роки тому +4831

    The corral colony has been murdered after searching for water during a drought. Then, the drought ends. That's some Stephen King shit right there.

    • @jackcutter2
      @jackcutter2 3 роки тому +104

      I literally went "nooo" when that happened. The irony is painful

    • @DonVigaDeFierro
      @DonVigaDeFierro 3 роки тому +168

      I used to think that nature was cruel. I used to think that everything happened for a reason. I used to think that maybe bad things happened because you, somehow, deserved them... That a superior force had an unknowable way of judging all of us... Call it God, nature, the universe... Those forces kept life in balance in ways that you didn't have the right to know...
      But the reality is that sometimes, for absolutely no reason, bad things simply happen. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to anyone...
      The best one can do is prepare for the drought, for the killing of all your kind, for the longest journey that is death, for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time... Because it may happen whether you think you deserve it or not, and I think that's scarier than the judgement of any superior force...

    • @mildhotpeppers
      @mildhotpeppers 3 роки тому +61

      @@DonVigaDeFierro lmfao dude how high are you?

    • @michaelp.6520
      @michaelp.6520 3 роки тому +133

      @@mildhotpeppers philosophy is one hell of a drug

    • @mildhotpeppers
      @mildhotpeppers 3 роки тому +26

      @@michaelp.6520 Sounds like they are out here smoking that Hobbes and rolling up with a Leviathan.

  • @__Sauron_
    @__Sauron_ 2 роки тому

    What an incredible video. So fascinating.

  • @Moo_RealHighlandCow
    @Moo_RealHighlandCow 9 місяців тому

    Much beauty, yet much chaos in the wild.

  • @Tony-dv4yq
    @Tony-dv4yq 4 роки тому +21215

    Shout out to ant man for filming this documentary

    • @baconz_rulez4068
      @baconz_rulez4068 3 роки тому +89

      Cancerous Vibez LOL

    • @DARTH-R3VAN
      @DARTH-R3VAN 3 роки тому +45

      @@baconz_rulez4068 I think you mean Antcerous Vibez 🙃

    • @absence7560
      @absence7560 3 роки тому +134

      Asad Khan no i think he meant ant man for sure, bees arent accepted in ant colonies

    • @harukatakahashi8822
      @harukatakahashi8822 3 роки тому +102

      Thank "Ant News Reporter"

    • @japhetbatubenga1150
      @japhetbatubenga1150 3 роки тому +181

      Didn't know kevin heart filmed ants

  • @greciacastro9020
    @greciacastro9020 4 роки тому +29064

    Let us praise the brave Ant journalist who risked his/her life to film these historic events.

    • @dl5200
      @dl5200 4 роки тому +265

      @@owenismyname.3023 *Their, and obviously they didn't risk their lives :P

    • @dotcon5855
      @dotcon5855 4 роки тому +22

      name. duh

    • @ridinondubz
      @ridinondubz 4 роки тому +385

      Anterson Cooper

    • @dacye8815
      @dacye8815 4 роки тому +17

      ExhuastTrailCRU13 male ants aren’t around

    • @terk383
      @terk383 4 роки тому +90

      Dacye male ants exist, they just don’t do work. It’s like male bees.

  • @antslatam
    @antslatam Рік тому +2

    Great video of Ants 🐜👍

  • @cryzz0n
    @cryzz0n 2 роки тому +3

    Imagine a person just seeing the fight and deciding to step on a couple of ant's not knowing they just changed an outcome of a war

  • @NotHere12345
    @NotHere12345 4 роки тому +985

    Corral Ant: “My Queen, they’ve breached the gates! What do we do?”
    Queen: “It’s been an honor to be your queen.”

    • @shanettacane7101
      @shanettacane7101 4 роки тому +8

      Funny

    • @aminahamin7887
      @aminahamin7887 4 роки тому +31

      Shanetta Cane no that suppose to be sad

    • @shanettacane7101
      @shanettacane7101 4 роки тому +3

      @@aminahamin7887 it's funny to me

    • @shanettacane7101
      @shanettacane7101 4 роки тому +1

      This is the insect world and what they do, don't get so caught up in it

    • @caw_caw_
      @caw_caw_ 4 роки тому +9

      YoungAnt: My Queen, there are too many of them. What are we going to do?

  • @brenon1441
    @brenon1441 4 роки тому +2131

    Imagine being the queen ant watching the cameraman do nothing while she's literally being torn apart.