Cities of the Ants

[simon275]

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An amazing video about ant cities. It gets really good about a min in when they pour 10 tons of concrete into a ant mound and then when it hards excavate. Very intersting.

[p0Pe]

that was amazing! damn... impressing little animals lol!

[FrooP]

wo.. like.. wow. that was.. wow... coool

[xRyokenx]

That was awesome! Ants are some sort of amazing...

[jdbnsn]

man I'll bet those ants were pissed!

[Omega]

Ants are the combine (from HL2)

I. Hate. Ants.

but that was cool.

[killergamer]

I think we should study there means of creating the city's then use it to are advantage and design underground city's for people.

[nevermind1534]

Too bad that that many people could never pull it off. People that weren't acient egyption slaves, or the chinese that built the great wall, at least.

[crenn]

Wow.... that was well worth the watch!

[Airbozo]

That was cool!

I love ant's ONLY if they stay out of the house... Come in the house and I will terminate the colony.

We have a symbiotic relationship with the insects at my house. Most of them are beneficial when they are outside, specifically in the garden. They take care of most of the bad pests and the little they don't eliminate are part of that relationship. The ant's, while they do farm aphids, keep the aphid population down. What the ant's don't control, the lady bugs do. Plus the ant's are good for soil aeration.

[Acey]

really nice "structure" they got going. never imagined it to be so fn huge.

[xmastree]

Check out that guy at 1'25 and 1'35 digging into that plastic tube. If that pipe is made form what I think it is, it's very tough and that ant just slices through it like some sort of hydraulic bolt cropper.

Edit:
After watching more closely, it's not the tough stuff I was thinking of. Watghing the guy handling it, and the way the pump squashes it, it's much softer than I thought.

[nevermind1534]

But for such a little guy, it's pretty powerful.

[mhon]

I am actually a fan of ants because they keep on working and harvesting foods before the rain comes. They do are good motivators for us but if they have invaded our homes and privacy, one solution for them to be removed is through the professional assistance of the pest control dallas. But if they are in their colony or in their place, we don't have to bother or kill them.

[Zephik]

That is amazing! The equivalent of the great wall of china? That looks more like the equivalent of Dubai to me. Truly amazing.

[d_stilgar]

Wow, what really impresses me is the intelligent spammer that actually makes an intelligent response in our conversation. That is incredible!

Ants have a 50% unemployment rate, and no central control. Ant just know what to do. It can be explained, but I just love how the system works in general. So cool.

[Zephik]

Woah, I didn't even realize he was a spammer! That's one for the hall of fame just for the sheer effort he put into it. lol

Have an hour or so? Check out the rest of the documentary. I think I just found my new favorite insect!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwATgYaEku4

I believe there are 6 parts in all at 10 minutes each. Definitely cured my boredom!

[Collinstheclown]

Was that on "planet earth" from the discovery channel? If so I think I'm gonna have pick up that entire series on Blu-ray! :)




-CollinstheClown

[y4na]

I hate the beginning when I hear the crunching noises as the people walk on the ants

[simon275]

Wow an old thread. I wonder if the spammer has a mad script that looks for the word ants and then posts in the thread.

[mDust]

Over a year old, wow...still an amazing video though! I'm sure by now that the ant colonies of the world have surrounded NYC or a similar city and are preparing the cement.