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Can someone explain this mess? Yanni Mecwan Did you really give support to a oil mafia made concept "carbon offset" 🤦 You really are a propoganda machine. At first i didn't believe it but after that new viral video explaining in detail how you do it man.
Yanni Mecwan SCOTT MILLER lol If you had'nt outed yourself as a dumb media propoganda machine parroting talking machine living in a small closed bubble. This comment will surely Let the whole world know that you are a bald freedom eagle Murican 😆😆 Your level of education & understanding is clearly shown when you simply think that under socialism nobody would innovate or be creative. Let me explain you in layman's term. Because I know you don't even know the defination of the word but your spoonfed from the bubble you live in. Why did cavemen develop stone tools? Why do people build model rockets in their basement? How could socialism possibly stifle creativity ? Not to mention the weird premise that the profit motive is good for art, when really it turns art industries into bougie culture vacuums.When's the last time you tried to actually listen to a top 40 radio station? That's the profit motive at work on the arts. Everything you mentioned could have been developed nonetheless but your idea that it only happens because of profit is seriously flawed. I think you seriously need to learn about something from a open minded pov & not your school education ”sOcIaLiSm bAd” propoganda. Don't get me started on the constant interventions of Murica in south america, middle East, East, Europe, Africa i.e. the whole world in the name of Democracy & freedom while the real reason is Oil, suppression of new Democracies in third world countries where socialism thrives (Murica can't let that happen), installing Murican puppet president/pm in the power so you know they can control it, literally north korea's current situation is majorly due to Murica interfering in it. I these doesn't switch the light bulb in your head than i don't know what will. Also, i hate both Biden,Trump & hate both democrats & republicans. I don't go blindly following anyone just cause I've to lol. I have my own critical,logical thinking & only support that Progress humanity. What a mess. 🤣😆😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣🤣😆
This species is definitely akin to Dark Eldar lol....quick lethal raids...alot of torture to pass the time...and lots of slaves captured. 100s are abducted and brought back to the dark anthill of camorragh.
I'm legit afraid to go into my backyard because the old resident didn't take care of the backyard and did SOMETHING to it. Whatever they did, they left beind a large amount of fire ant killer and there is just this massive kingdom of different ants. Can't take a single step without running into another, usually tiny, ant hill and walking into an ant war. It's like watching a bunch of small countries go to war 24/7.
I LOVE your ants saga! BTW, I am an English teacher in Spain. I always recommend your videos so my students learn English listening to your perfect and clear diction, while exploring science. Thank you!
Wow more than 400 likes?! That's touching... :') Most students don't appreciate what teachers do or try to do, let alone our bosses... They're quite... Well... Bossy. And greedy. And know little about education. So thanks guys. I hope you meet great teachers. And I hope they don't wear themselves out. Be nice to them. Being a teacher is a heck of a hard work when they really care about their students. Take care!
"You let one ant stand up to us and they ALL might stand up! Those "puny little ants" outnumber us a 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out; there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line!"
@Matic it's almost like the capitalist class smeared their pheromones all over these rubes who are convinced that everything will fall to crap if the capitalists aren't given the wealth that other people create. They can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that shareholders are not creating wealth or products. Even Tim Apple has never built an iPhone, much less so the investors. People should be fairly compensated for the work they do, not their entitled demands for other people's money.
Imagine living this from the ants perspective! There’s a fantastic Sci-Fi trilogy about ants written by a french author. It’s called The Trilogy of the Ants (La Trilogie des Fourmis), by Bernard Werber. It’s amazing! The books are as follows: 1 - The Empire of The Ants (Les Fourmis) 2 - The Day of The Ants (Le Jour de Fourmis) 3 - The Revolution of The Ants (La Révolution des Fourmis) It features beautiful scenery, a very interesting, twisting and mostly-centered ant storyline (there’s two perspectives - that of the humans and that of ants, and sometimes they split as well because the characters get lost or have conflicting ideas) and adventure from every single point of view. The author masterfully describes with scientifically-accurate details every aspect of the ant’s lives and how they view the world, humans, other animals and even how they progress and discover how to manipulate water to create canals or other insects (like rhinoceros beetles as tanks) as weapons of war. I hope with all my heart that Netflix will someday make a show out of these books.
@Illyasviel von Einzbern Thank you for noticing! I don’t speak French, so I didn’t know about those specific orthographic details. Have a nice day or a nice night!
I was sitting outside my high school library, hanging out with a friend, when we observed individuals from two different species of ants cross paths on the concrete in front of us. One was a red ant and the other a black ant, roughly about the same size as each other. They approached one-another, touched feelers for a few seconds, then both turned around and went back the way they came. Within a couple of minutes two very large armies of ants, one black and one red, approached the spot where the scout ants had met. There must have been a couple hundred ants in each group. It was a battle and it lasted a long time until the red ants eventually killed most of the black ants and the black ants retreated. The red ants collected the dead and returned to where they came from. My friend and I couldn't stop talking about it for weeks. It was the wildest thing we had ever seen.
The violence of the ant world is a fascinating parallel to our own. It makes you wonder just how 'advanced' our morality really is. Not whether we could do better morally, but, rather, if our morality is neither as universal nor as special as we believe it to be, even within our own species. If it were so universal and special, we would need neither laws nor prisons because we would all act in accordance with it.
@GreenSteve There are probably millions of slaves all around the world. But, if not slaves, we are all serfs indentured to the forward march of our species. In exchange for clean hands, a clean conscience, and the conveniences of the contemporary global society, we are expected - forced under pain of banishment, incarceration, or death - to operate within the bounds of the status quo of that global society.
Once me and a friend were in our backyard. We noticed that a few streams of ants were all going towards a colony. There were two colonies raiding them. One was trying to slave the rest it was crazy but the black ants were high in numbers and killed everyone else
That slavery ratio of the first one sounds like the Spartans with the Helots. From slavery to animal husbandry to bridge building, ants are genuinely incredible.
Once, my dad dropped a single piece of trix cereal on the counter. He was about to pick it up until he saw a group of ants march towards it. Then, as the first group was eating, a second group appeared, marched on and started to eat too. This angered the first group, thus starting a whole battle on and around the cereal. It lasted like 15, 20 minutes, there were constant reinforcements too. When the battle ended, there were whole inch large piles of dead ants. We recorded a bit of it as it was happening.
@David West it was summer and it was in the province, ants tend to invade people's houses especially where i come from 😅 i think i found their queen and called it "ghengis ant", but i didn't get to take a picture of it
@Alioshax You are just not smart enough or are doing this because you've convinced yourself this is an arguement that you have to win on the internet, like a war. Yes Ant colonies obviously have a higher population, wonder why right? Considering they weigh on average 1-5mg, yeah mg not gramms. They weigh 1/1000 of a gram. They barely need resources to survive, infact the queen is producing on average 800 eggs a day which wouldnt even cost her a gram of food, a human weighs on average 70kg, a human needs thousands of calories a day to survive. You also believe that pollution will kill all humans in a few thousand years, what are you talking about? Its incredible you just say the same things every single other person with quite frankly little knowledge talks about. Yes Climate change WILL create problems there is no doubt. But you cannot even fathom any tragedy on such a scaleso there is not a point in talking with you about it. The stupid human has managed to create machines to send us to other planets, us damn stupid humans delved into parts unknown to us and become experts in them, us stupid humans have made our own lifes extremly easy. How stupid of us! Why didnt the 1750 scientists think of our modern problems in 2022! Those foolish idiots!!! You lack the will to gain knowledge since you just want to argue with me, what do you gain from just arguing with me. I know you're wrong so I can only just keep trying to convince you to second guess your ego and your pride and just let it sink in that you are wrong. Humans are superiour to ants. haha
@Phil der komische typ Ants build metropolis which dwarf New York and Tokyo in terms of population, for instance. And in term of durability, we've managed to create enough pollution to kill ourself in a few thousand years. What an acheivement for the "smartest". Ants were there before mammals were even a thing.
One of the main things that this made me realize is that ants live such shoddy lives that they don't even notice when they're being enslaved. I feel bad for the poor scrunklies.
5:11 Interestingly, the same happens with Human slavery, only in this case it's not genetic but memetic (cultural). Human slave societies have cultural traits designed to destroy social capital, this is of course meant to not undermine the system by disallowing sympathy between slave & master but it has the side effect of reducing the slave society's ability to cooperate overall. Over time, if the society does not have an outside threat to pull it together this will contribute to the society's collapse. A good example is Ancient Rome, which through inequality as population grew thanks to it's success (Causing an oversupply of labor that enriched the few at the top & undermined social solidarity) as well as through the corrosive effect of slavery on social capital (All forms of inequality erode social capital), Rome became unable to mount a defense against invading German tribes. Causing Rome's sociocultural extinction in favor of the Frankish Empire which would eventually suffer the same fate, leaving the shattered mess that was the Holy Roman Empire for much of modern Europe's history (Other states unified by Vikings, Muslims, Huns) until Prussia was born from a conflict of German Teutonic Knights & Pagan Balts, eventually unifying all of what became the modern empire/state of Germany. To this day the former heart of the Roman Empire's latifundium plantation system in South Italy is known for "amoral familism" in which people cannot cooperate for the good of a society above the level of blood kin. Causing the differences in wealth of North Italy & South Italy. (Known as "Mezzogiorno" for it's productive sun.) As well as the Mafia scourge as people seek protection from rival families. Another example is the US south, which is known for it's lower sense of community since the days of Toqueville. (In fact, every country in the Americas below the Mason-Dixon line suffers from being a slave society in the past & are notable worse off than the nothern American states which abandoned slavery much earlier or never had it due to a bad climate for plantations.) The many Ant-Human parallels in nature are astounding!
I'll never forget being a kid and my dad showing me an ant colony herding and farming aphids on some garden plants. What a wildly complex behavior for creatures that should seemingly be so simple.
@Fandom guy I see what you're saying, but I think we might have different perspectives on this. As you say, the cells in our bodies and brains are able to perform much more complex tasks than single-cell organisms. I would argue that the same difference of complexity exists between our brain cells and fully formed humans who are part of a collective. It's reasonable to assume that each person would still be able to perform as varied tasks as we do today, and not just modify connections, as you put it. Our brains are fully integrated into physical bodies that they are (more or less) in control over, whereas a hivemind made up of a collective of humans is obviously not physically interconnected to that same degree. The difference lies in communication. Since humans today don't have access to direct brain-to-brain communication, a more rudimentary, artificial form of communication needs to exist for us to be able to function as a collective, i.e. language and memes, and a societal structure that is organised the way we mostly see today. A degree of separation, if you will. But a hivemind *would* have that access to direct communication without that degree of separation, so it's reasonable to assume that the need for language, memes and social hierarchy would become less and less necessary, as the collective learns to utilise its parts without these abstractions. And I would argue that a hirerarchy-less hivemind would be more efficient (and more ethical), as any part of the collective can adapt to perform any task at any time, due to the collective knowledge and direct communication with the hivemind. (And related to this point, since you brought it up: the borg queen is a hotly contested topic among ST fans, as many people (myself included) think it is entirely unnecessary and straight up antithetical to what the borg were conceived to be when they were introduced, and only exists as a focal point that the characters can defeat; when the point of the borg was that there isn't any one focal point, as any part of the borg collective is as much of a threat as any other part of it, so you can't just beat up one special one and call it a day, you have to get creative and use different strategies when dealing with the borg)
LOVE THE ANTS SAGA! i love all your videos they are very informative but the ant saga is very enjoyable to watch, wish you do more. more power to this chanel! much love!
Imagine a WW Ant game like a horde vs horde in tunnels or on footprints. The different big maps with each player controlling a colony are like a city or a small farm house.
Empires of the Undergrowth was originally planned to be like that, but it underwent a lot of change all for the better in my opinion. I’d suggest you check it out!
I remember having a small anthill by my house a long time ago, and a few times when I had to play outside, I'd bring metal tanks and such out, and pretend I was assaulting the hill tho the ants never seemed to think of my as a threat, though I did see one try to bite one of my toy metal helis lmao
I used to have a colony of copper-colored slaver ants in my yard as a kid. I would watch them for hours, as they'd form a raiding party and travel sometimes a hundred meters to their target colony, then carry the eggs back. This video was a cool reminder, thanks!
Not gonna lie, the quest of a Polyergus queen to assassinate all the queens in another colony without getting killed herself sounds like a dope premise for a video game or drama miniseries.
Like an animated movie where they give the ants a bit more touch, following the fate of a young queen larvae who survives the take over of her colony by a slaver ant queen. Idk, like a Kids movie, but a bit more brutal. And now this little queen needs to blend in and overthrow the usurper before she gets discovered.
wow! The taking of the babies is really the key to this success. I was thinking cordyceps-like mind control --- this scariest part is that they develop and simply have no idea that they are slaves.
@oh nori In a sense, they have evolved into really rad life forms, some are pretty much the friggin xenomorphs in real life. Search for "Wasps: the literal worse" (i may cause nightmares).
I love these ant videos. They're so fascinating. This one is my favorite. It's nightmare fuel. "I'm yo momma now!" And they believe it. That's crazy 😧😐🤨🤣
"We are humanizing ants a bit for the story's sake. Don't forget, ants are ants and not people." Pretty sure the unfathomable cosmic entities have said something similar about us at some point.
the fact that ants can organize a raid on another ant colony is amazing, let alone the complexity of ant colonies in general also the idea that they literally look for the babies specifically is kind of terrifying
@konb kob Well they keep the original victims intact and let them recover so they can raid them again later and repopulate their slave babies, so both the race and culture survive in this scenario.
@Enermax Stephens I would expect her to get ripped not sometimes but most of the time actually, otherwise the slaver ants would've conquered the world long ago.
Wow! First time watching this channel You're like The Infographic Show but with a foreign accent.😆 But this is still sooo educational, keep up the good work😃
This video is endorsed by wef. On a serious note though, thank you scientists for studying ant life. Ow my... And maybe this raises the question if slavery is the default social construct? Or something like that. I don't think we're ants.
As a Formica ant, i fully embrace the TRUTH and LOVE of my Polyergus liberators, i had been saved from a meaningless existence and have now seen the light. Polyergus queen is our saviour, all will embrace her holy pheromone!
@d R gee, this is a REALLY tough decision here...do I trust the scientists or some guy on the internet saying "we're not ants so we really don't know!!!"
@d R Science can in fact make conclusions based on the complexity of the brain. Without the proper parts, there's no room for sentience. They don't have the capacity for emotions, or an inner monolog lol and idk why you put superior in quotes, humans are superior in intelligence to an ant and thats a fact
@꧁GlorifiedGremlin꧂ How would you know? You've never been an ant. Science makes no definitive conclusions regarding sentience or self awareness, and really it's impossible to ever prove it one way or another. You're just making baseless assumptions. Besides, human behaviour is just as dependent upon evolutionary and biological factors, we aren't even remotely "superior" in that regard.
my kitchen was raided some time ago by 2 different looking ants, one was a little big with wings and fewer in numbers and another a very smaller ones and too many in numbers, so they are slaves ants? we sprayed bug sprays of course. rip
@Sarlat I'm sorry but was there something about my comment that seemed like a green light to come after me? I'm trying to understand what about my comment comes off as Karen-like.
@Puckosar so true. I wonder if it worked in this instance. I just had someone insinuate that I was a Karen in response to my above comment theorizing the reason behind the disclaimer. Reading really is fundamental isn't it?
Thanks for the little thing in the corner reminding people that ants aren't people: I get a little concerned with the amount of anthropomorphization of insects.
Im surprised no one yet has has made an RTS game but with ants... Seriously, these guys are brutal... Also, another beautiful visualization by Kurz... Edit: Seems I didn't know there were Ant based RTSs out there. Thank you kind folk for telling me.
@Jason Reed yk I’d always thought of it more like an action-puzzle series, but the combat _is_ very RTS-y! Plus the way they take the corpses back to their nests to make more Pikmin is pretty anty (skipping a few steps). Good suggestion
Pikmin is a Nintendo property that while not actually an Ant RTS it is a great console RTS where you command an army of minions who are sorta like ants. They even referenced the death animation & sound effect from the games at 6:05 in this video.
@Kaitlyn L well, the game i mentioned do kinda requires strategy since you can build with chunks of dirt and dig, and there's 2 other colonies and spiders on the map and you constantly need to feed yourself and the queen So idk, as long as your'e not one of those immature judgemental people i reccomend you check it out since it's free
As someone said, "truth is stranger than the fiction", this video proves it. This enslaving and world war of ants is more fascinating than any fictional movie, novel or TV series.
Not true. Every reality can be made weirder with the substitution or addition of Elmo(s). Imagine watching this whole video again, except all the ants are now Elmos. If you don't think that's stranger, I don't know what to say.
Its slavery in the sense that they were taken from their homes in a raid but its not really unwilling since they weren't actually born yet. Its an interesting behavior I never saw in ants before :0
About the last minute of the video... It's really disappointing to see you promote a harmful and even dangerous idea, that it's consumers' responsibility to limit their carbon footprint, and that personal consumer choices can make any significant impact. The only way to limit effects of the climate crisis is for the governments and international organizations to impose and strictly enforce regulations. Regulations that apply to everyone and more importantly - every company. This idea that we can mitigate climate change if we just all decide to change our lives is ridiculous when you think about it, but it got so normalized that to many people it sounds reasonable. But consider this: if the world didn't come together to sign the Montreal Protocol and then strictly adhere to it, but instead all we did about it was ask people to just do their part and start buying more expensive, CFC-free appliances and aerosols, do you really believe we would have made any significant progress regarding ozone depletion?
After seeing how this channel promotes no scientific information and they are actually a propaganda machine financed by billionaires, I lost all trust and figured out that all the information they spread is horribly false.
I have never given more than 2 seconds of thought to how ants live. Suddenly I’m obsessed. Thank you Kurzgesagt for making such amazing and captivating videos ❤
If one takes into account collective intelligence ants are the second most intelligent creatures after human in the animal kingdom. Individually they may be dumb but as an organisation their complexity rivals even humans!
@Katzenoir I don't know it, but being in TV satisfy a lot and there has to be reason, why people watch it. If it's running, it means, it has good ratings.
These ant videos are great, but if anyone wants to learn more about ants I recommend you read a book called “Adventures among Ants” by Mark Moffet. That book has lots of information about weaver ants, driver ants, marauder ants, slave maker ants, and more!
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Hello, i cant access the sources documnet.
So when did the PolyBillius Gaties queen raid your colony kurzgesag
Sounds like certain people who colonized certain continents
Can someone explain this mess?
Yanni Mecwan
Did you really give support to a oil mafia made concept "carbon offset" 🤦 You really are a propoganda machine. At first i didn't believe it but after that new viral video explaining in detail how you do it man.
Look at this mess of English and grammar.
Yanni Mecwan
SCOTT MILLER lol If you had'nt outed yourself as a dumb media propoganda machine parroting talking machine living in a small closed bubble. This comment will surely Let the whole world know that you are a bald freedom eagle Murican 😆😆 Your level of education & understanding is clearly shown when you simply think that under socialism nobody would innovate or be creative. Let me explain you in layman's term. Because I know you don't even know the defination of the word but your spoonfed from the bubble you live in. Why did cavemen develop stone tools? Why do people build model rockets in their basement? How could socialism possibly stifle creativity ? Not to mention the weird premise that the profit motive is good for art, when really it turns art industries into bougie culture vacuums.When's the last time you tried to actually listen to a top 40 radio station? That's the profit motive at work on the arts. Everything you mentioned could have been developed nonetheless but your idea that it only happens because of profit is seriously flawed. I think you seriously need to learn about something from a open minded pov & not your school education ”sOcIaLiSm bAd” propoganda. Don't get me started on the constant interventions of Murica in south america, middle East, East, Europe, Africa i.e. the whole world in the name of Democracy & freedom while the real reason is Oil, suppression of new Democracies in third world countries where socialism thrives (Murica can't let that happen), installing Murican puppet president/pm in the power so you know they can control it, literally north korea's current situation is majorly due to Murica interfering in it. I these doesn't switch the light bulb in your head than i don't know what will. Also, i hate both Biden,Trump & hate both democrats & republicans. I don't go blindly following anyone just cause I've to lol. I have my own critical,logical thinking & only support that Progress humanity.
What a mess.
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The more I learn about ants, the more I realize how metal their lifestyle is
Still cool
This species is definitely akin to Dark Eldar lol....quick lethal raids...alot of torture to pass the time...and lots of slaves captured.
100s are abducted and brought back to the dark anthill of camorragh.
@Oscar Moreno you literally missed the meaning, super fun guy at all parties 🎉
They are not metal, they are made of carbon. All life on earth is carbon based and therefore not metal
Kurzgesagt taught me that ants are the closest thing to mimic human civilization in the animal kingdom. It's actually pretty insane.
I'm legit afraid to go into my backyard because the old resident didn't take care of the backyard and did SOMETHING to it. Whatever they did, they left beind a large amount of fire ant killer and there is just this massive kingdom of different ants. Can't take a single step without running into another, usually tiny, ant hill and walking into an ant war. It's like watching a bunch of small countries go to war 24/7.
The Hundred Years’ War in your backyard..
@Hrfjio fire ants make living rafts out of themselves.
*they can survive a flood*
Flood it with water. Play God
bro walked in on Mini-Vietnam
@KING IRON GAMES More like BalkANTs
I LOVE your ants saga!
BTW, I am an English teacher in Spain. I always recommend your videos so my students learn English listening to your perfect and clear diction, while exploring science. Thank you!
Wow more than 400 likes?! That's touching... :')
Most students don't appreciate what teachers do or try to do, let alone our bosses... They're quite... Well... Bossy. And greedy. And know little about education.
So thanks guys. I hope you meet great teachers. And I hope they don't wear themselves out.
Be nice to them. Being a teacher is a heck of a hard work when they really care about their students.
Take care!
Would’ve loved to have you as a teacher. W teacher :)
@jeshux1994 haha it simple mean Win or best
I must be honest.. I had to look up "W teacher" in the Urban Dictionary hahahaha
Thank u guys
W teacher
"You let one ant stand up to us and they ALL might stand up! Those "puny little ants" outnumber us a 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out; there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line!"
@Yu Naru I look at America, I see a failing state full of needless injustice
@Matic anyone defending communism never actually experienced real communism
@Matic it's almost like the capitalist class smeared their pheromones all over these rubes who are convinced that everything will fall to crap if the capitalists aren't given the wealth that other people create. They can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that shareholders are not creating wealth or products. Even Tim Apple has never built an iPhone, much less so the investors. People should be fairly compensated for the work they do, not their entitled demands for other people's money.
@Matic In high school or early-no, sadly. I had to learn this years after.
@Big Moe did you ever study economics in class?
Imagine living this from the ants perspective!
There’s a fantastic Sci-Fi trilogy about ants written by a french author. It’s called The Trilogy of the Ants (La Trilogie des Fourmis), by Bernard Werber. It’s amazing!
The books are as follows:
1 - The Empire of The Ants (Les Fourmis)
2 - The Day of The Ants (Le Jour de Fourmis)
3 - The Revolution of The Ants (La Révolution des Fourmis)
It features beautiful scenery, a very interesting, twisting and mostly-centered ant storyline (there’s two perspectives - that of the humans and that of ants, and sometimes they split as well because the characters get lost or have conflicting ideas) and adventure from every single point of view. The author masterfully describes with scientifically-accurate details every aspect of the ant’s lives and how they view the world, humans, other animals and even how they progress and discover how to manipulate water to create canals or other insects (like rhinoceros beetles as tanks) as weapons of war.
I hope with all my heart that Netflix will someday make a show out of these books.
So cool! Thanks I'll check them out
@Illyasviel von Einzbern Thank you for noticing! I don’t speak French, so I didn’t know about those specific orthographic details. Have a nice day or a nice night!
Le jour*, not la jour. And La Révolution
I was sitting outside my high school library, hanging out with a friend, when we observed individuals from two different species of ants cross paths on the concrete in front of us. One was a red ant and the other a black ant, roughly about the same size as each other. They approached one-another, touched feelers for a few seconds, then both turned around and went back the way they came. Within a couple of minutes two very large armies of ants, one black and one red, approached the spot where the scout ants had met. There must have been a couple hundred ants in each group. It was a battle and it lasted a long time until the red ants eventually killed most of the black ants and the black ants retreated. The red ants collected the dead and returned to where they came from.
My friend and I couldn't stop talking about it for weeks. It was the wildest thing we had ever seen.
youtube try not to lie challenge (difficulty: impossible)
Once I saw 2 squirrles fighting when I was going to school. They both were beating the shit out of each ot
Negotiations ended poorly
that sounds fucking sick ngl
@John Faz that's cool
The violence of the ant world is a fascinating parallel to our own. It makes you wonder just how 'advanced' our morality really is. Not whether we could do better morally, but, rather, if our morality is neither as universal nor as special as we believe it to be, even within our own species. If it were so universal and special, we would need neither laws nor prisons because we would all act in accordance with it.
@John i feel we should supply the fomica ants with NLAWS, Himars and Leo’s
@GreenSteve There are probably millions of slaves all around the world. But, if not slaves, we are all serfs indentured to the forward march of our species. In exchange for clean hands, a clean conscience, and the conveniences of the contemporary global society, we are expected - forced under pain of banishment, incarceration, or death - to operate within the bounds of the status quo of that global society.
At least we don't have millions of slaves anymore!
Once me and a friend were in our backyard. We noticed that a few streams of ants were all going towards a colony. There were two colonies raiding them. One was trying to slave the rest it was crazy but the black ants were high in numbers and killed everyone else
That slavery ratio of the first one sounds like the Spartans with the Helots. From slavery to animal husbandry to bridge building, ants are genuinely incredible.
Once, my dad dropped a single piece of trix cereal on the counter. He was about to pick it up until he saw a group of ants march towards it. Then, as the first group was eating, a second group appeared, marched on and started to eat too. This angered the first group, thus starting a whole battle on and around the cereal. It lasted like 15, 20 minutes, there were constant reinforcements too.
When the battle ended, there were whole inch large piles of dead ants. We recorded a bit of it as it was happening.
@David West it was summer and it was in the province, ants tend to invade people's houses especially where i come from 😅
i think i found their queen and called it "ghengis ant", but i didn't get to take a picture of it
What kind of kitchen is this 😮
ant
Where is vid
@Craig Seems it unnecessary, the ants already cleaned for them.
It's amazing that ants quite literally have their own lore
@Brave Abandon Meant to say Archimedes, my bad.
@Alioshax Aristotle died from natural causes?
Even crazier is it's canon
@Alioshax You are just not smart enough or are doing this because you've convinced yourself this is an arguement that you have to win on the internet, like a war.
Yes Ant colonies obviously have a higher population, wonder why right? Considering they weigh on average 1-5mg, yeah mg not gramms. They weigh 1/1000 of a gram. They barely need resources to survive, infact the queen is producing on average 800 eggs a day which wouldnt even cost her a gram of food, a human weighs on average 70kg, a human needs thousands of calories a day to survive. You also believe that pollution will kill all humans in a few thousand years, what are you talking about? Its incredible you just say the same things every single other person with quite frankly little knowledge talks about. Yes Climate change WILL create problems there is no doubt. But you cannot even fathom any tragedy on such a scaleso there is not a point in talking with you about it. The stupid human has managed to create machines to send us to other planets, us damn stupid humans delved into parts unknown to us and become experts in them, us stupid humans have made our own lifes extremly easy. How stupid of us! Why didnt the 1750 scientists think of our modern problems in 2022! Those foolish idiots!!!
You lack the will to gain knowledge since you just want to argue with me, what do you gain from just arguing with me. I know you're wrong so I can only just keep trying to convince you to second guess your ego and your pride and just let it sink in that you are wrong.
Humans are superiour to ants. haha
@Phil der komische typ Ants build metropolis which dwarf New York and Tokyo in terms of population, for instance.
And in term of durability, we've managed to create enough pollution to kill ourself in a few thousand years. What an acheivement for the "smartest". Ants were there before mammals were even a thing.
As a Formica ant, this video has freed my mind from my Polyergus captors. I shall spread word to my fellow Formica trapped here. We will rise up!
One of the main things that this made me realize is that ants live such shoddy lives that they don't even notice when they're being enslaved. I feel bad for the poor scrunklies.
Ants are my favourite animal, I'm so glad Kurzgesagt have been making so many videos on them!
5:11 Interestingly, the same happens with Human slavery, only in this case it's not genetic but memetic (cultural). Human slave societies have cultural traits designed to destroy social capital, this is of course meant to not undermine the system by disallowing sympathy between slave & master but it has the side effect of reducing the slave society's ability to cooperate overall.
Over time, if the society does not have an outside threat to pull it together this will contribute to the society's collapse.
A good example is Ancient Rome, which through inequality as population grew thanks to it's success (Causing an oversupply of labor that enriched the few at the top & undermined social solidarity) as well as through the corrosive effect of slavery on social capital (All forms of inequality erode social capital), Rome became unable to mount a defense against invading German tribes.
Causing Rome's sociocultural extinction in favor of the Frankish Empire which would eventually suffer the same fate, leaving the shattered mess that was the Holy Roman Empire for much of modern Europe's history (Other states unified by Vikings, Muslims, Huns) until Prussia was born from a conflict of German Teutonic Knights & Pagan Balts, eventually unifying all of what became the modern empire/state of Germany.
To this day the former heart of the Roman Empire's latifundium plantation system in South Italy is known for "amoral familism" in which people cannot cooperate for the good of a society above the level of blood kin. Causing the differences in wealth of North Italy & South Italy. (Known as "Mezzogiorno" for it's productive sun.) As well as the Mafia scourge as people seek protection from rival families.
Another example is the US south, which is known for it's lower sense of community since the days of Toqueville. (In fact, every country in the Americas below the Mason-Dixon line suffers from being a slave society in the past & are notable worse off than the nothern American states which abandoned slavery much earlier or never had it due to a bad climate for plantations.)
The many Ant-Human parallels in nature are astounding!
I'll never forget being a kid and my dad showing me an ant colony herding and farming aphids on some garden plants. What a wildly complex behavior for creatures that should seemingly be so simple.
@Fandom guy I see what you're saying, but I think we might have different perspectives on this.
As you say, the cells in our bodies and brains are able to perform much more complex tasks than single-cell organisms.
I would argue that the same difference of complexity exists between our brain cells and fully formed humans who are part of a collective.
It's reasonable to assume that each person would still be able to perform as varied tasks as we do today, and not just modify connections, as you put it.
Our brains are fully integrated into physical bodies that they are (more or less) in control over, whereas a hivemind made up of a collective of humans is obviously not physically interconnected to that same degree.
The difference lies in communication.
Since humans today don't have access to direct brain-to-brain communication, a more rudimentary, artificial form of communication needs to exist for us to be able to function as a collective, i.e. language and memes, and a societal structure that is organised the way we mostly see today.
A degree of separation, if you will.
But a hivemind *would* have that access to direct communication without that degree of separation, so it's reasonable to assume that the need for language, memes and social hierarchy would become less and less necessary, as the collective learns to utilise its parts without these abstractions.
And I would argue that a hirerarchy-less hivemind would be more efficient (and more ethical), as any part of the collective can adapt to perform any task at any time, due to the collective knowledge and direct communication with the hivemind.
(And related to this point, since you brought it up: the borg queen is a hotly contested topic among ST fans, as many people (myself included) think it is entirely unnecessary and straight up antithetical to what the borg were conceived to be when they were introduced, and only exists as a focal point that the characters can defeat; when the point of the borg was that there isn't any one focal point, as any part of the borg collective is as much of a threat as any other part of it, so you can't just beat up one special one and call it a day, you have to get creative and use different strategies when dealing with the borg)
@*Steel Beam* Our individual neurons are just cells following chemical signals after all, so in a way, the entire colony has a mind.
@Fandom guy Ill give you one tho.
You're goddamn amazing.
The stuff you wrote made me get chills haha.
Id really like explore more of this topic
@Fandom guy ah I see thanks for sharing :D
@syaondri Yep.
Hobbyist, I love this stuff & set out to learn a lot about this amazing universe!
LOVE THE ANTS SAGA! i love all your videos they are very informative but the ant saga is very enjoyable to watch, wish you do more.
more power to this chanel! much love!
Imagine a WW Ant game like a horde vs horde in tunnels or on footprints. The different big maps with each player controlling a colony are like a city or a small farm house.
Empires of the Undergrowth was originally planned to be like that, but it underwent a lot of change all for the better in my opinion. I’d suggest you check it out!
I love these ants videos of yours! Please show more specialist species and how they fit in local ecosystems
I remember having a small anthill by my house a long time ago, and a few times when I had to play outside, I'd bring metal tanks and such out, and pretend I was assaulting the hill
tho the ants never seemed to think of my as a threat, though I did see one try to bite one of my toy metal helis lmao
I used to have a colony of copper-colored slaver ants in my yard as a kid. I would watch them for hours, as they'd form a raiding party and travel sometimes a hundred meters to their target colony, then carry the eggs back. This video was a cool reminder, thanks!
@Abyss Strider ok I get it. Can we all agree to stop replying to this comment.
@j Walster Hundred meters is not a lot, it's like walking for 40-60 seconds in one direction.
@Cyan_Oxy It's possible they would them across their lawn, and across a road/fence into another lawn/park
@Cyan_Oxy uh... What if he grew in the country?
@Random Stuff bruh, the first reply changed what they said. They said 100 meters would be a kilometer
Im absolutely up for an entire ant series!
It's kinda crazy how after watching the 4 ant centred videos it feels like us humans and ants really be acting the same
As an AntLover, I really want more ant videos
its interesting to know that ants do raiding and wars like humans
Not gonna lie, the quest of a Polyergus queen to assassinate all the queens in another colony without getting killed herself sounds like a dope premise for a video game or drama miniseries.
Sounds like a sick shonen anime
@thoa tran du ma
ok
This whole thing seems like a crazy anime universe lol
Like an animated movie where they give the ants a bit more touch, following the fate of a young queen larvae who survives the take over of her colony by a slaver ant queen.
Idk, like a Kids movie, but a bit more brutal.
And now this little queen needs to blend in and overthrow the usurper before she gets discovered.
It’s cool how ants are their own kingdoms that can go to war and stuff, they’re like their own civilization.
I really appreciate the creative talent that went into this song. You freaking killed it dude
Ants have been my favorite animal since primary school. Good to see they are getting some attention :)
Question. Do these ants only enslave their "distant relatives" or can they enslave other species too?
This looks like one of the coolest concepts for a new game
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i mean i’m fine with grounded lol
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If you're a big fan of ants, you should check out the Fantasy Ant-venture "Chrysalis" really fun book, especially in audio.
wow! The taking of the babies is really the key to this success. I was thinking cordyceps-like mind control --- this scariest part is that they develop and simply have no idea that they are slaves.
Great work bro. Very informative video. Thanks for sharing with us.
Do more of these weird ants like the Vampire ants, Leafcutter ants, etc.
It occurs to me that bees are about as varied as ants and have a similarly brutal existance. You should tell us about this in a future video
@Terrance Nightingale Demons? What is wrong with that
@Senko Loaf! I stand corrected.
@oh nori In a sense, they have evolved into really rad life forms, some are pretty much the friggin xenomorphs in real life. Search for "Wasps: the literal worse" (i may cause nightmares).
@skullcat324 Holy crap! 🤣
@Deadsea 1993 which common ancestor? you mean common ancestor for all insects ?
Amazing Content , great knowledge and lucid explanation.
what a fascinating video about ants i certainly hope no one in the comments is extrapolating this as an allegory for humanity at all
I love these ant videos. They're so fascinating. This one is my favorite. It's nightmare fuel. "I'm yo momma now!" And they believe it. That's crazy 😧😐🤨🤣
"We are humanizing ants a bit for the story's sake. Don't forget, ants are ants and not people."
Pretty sure the unfathomable cosmic entities have said something similar about us at some point.
the fact that ants can organize a raid on another ant colony is amazing, let alone the complexity of ant colonies in general
also the idea that they literally look for the babies specifically is kind of terrifying
@konb kob Well they keep the original victims intact and let them recover so they can raid them again later and repopulate their slave babies, so both the race and culture survive in this scenario.
@THE ANGRY DWELLER More like we're similar to them. Ants are a much older species (?) than us
@TheOmnipotentWeeb Yes, ofc. I was just stating that technically eliminating a culture is also considered genocide.
@Sirius GG Cultural genocide, not actual genocide
Pretty sure human groups in history have done similar things...
Oh wow, should we as humans do something about this? We've managed to end slavery among us, and we should help other species to achieve same!
This is mind bogling. I mean did the nature really invent all of this high level behaviour we think that we invented as a civilized species....
I feel like this would make a really good science fiction movie.
Always something new to discover with ants.
that single queen solo raiding a whole colony is the true definition of badassery
@Enermax Stephensbro. People are Just tryin to have fun Goddamn
@Eleyvie Yeah so it's more like "desperate gamble" lol. Not "badass". These people are so easily impressed
@Enermax Stephens I would expect her to get ripped not sometimes but most of the time actually, otherwise the slaver ants would've conquered the world long ago.
@Anonymous_Random_Guy lmao
Except that sometimes she gets ripped to pieces by the colony's ants lol
I love your ant videos there so good.
Wow! First time watching this channel
You're like The Infographic Show but with a foreign accent.😆
But this is still sooo educational, keep up the good work😃
This video is endorsed by wef.
On a serious note though, thank you scientists for studying ant life. Ow my... And maybe this raises the question if slavery is the default social construct? Or something like that. I don't think we're ants.
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As a Formica ant, this video has freed my mind from my Polyergus captors. I shall spread word to my fellow Formica trapped here. We will rise up!
bring back slavery
Me being a completely different species of ant: I'm just.....gonna go back before I get killed....
Polyergus ants are apparently screwed when slave revolts occur, as they are physically helpless if their slaves fight back
from which species are you?
As a Formica ant, i fully embrace the TRUTH and LOVE of my Polyergus liberators, i had been saved from a meaningless existence and have now seen the light. Polyergus queen is our saviour, all will embrace her holy pheromone!
Whenever Kurzgesagt uploads, I can expect the entire fnaf lore
Amazing Video. I didn’t know there’s a War happening right under my feet!
"All species deserve love!"
slaver ants: exist
"nevermind"
It always amazes me how humans didn’t invent anything, ants did everything first 😅😂
It’s astonishing for a singular ant to even have the chance of taking over an entire colony
@biggest fan nice argument. Unfortunately I am literally the creator of the multiverse. I could erase your entire civilization if I wanted to
@d R gee, this is a REALLY tough decision here...do I trust the scientists or some guy on the internet saying "we're not ants so we really don't know!!!"
@Itsme Alex yeah
maybe a shooter
@d R Science can in fact make conclusions based on the complexity of the brain. Without the proper parts, there's no room for sentience. They don't have the capacity for emotions, or an inner monolog lol and idk why you put superior in quotes, humans are superior in intelligence to an ant and thats a fact
@꧁GlorifiedGremlin꧂ How would you know? You've never been an ant. Science makes no definitive conclusions regarding sentience or self awareness, and really it's impossible to ever prove it one way or another. You're just making baseless assumptions.
Besides, human behaviour is just as dependent upon evolutionary and biological factors, we aren't even remotely "superior" in that regard.
Thanks for the ant video I was hoping to see one for a long time
Thanks for posting something again that doesn't make me question my existence
my kitchen was raided some time ago by 2 different looking ants, one was a little big with wings and fewer in numbers and another a very smaller ones and too many in numbers, so they are slaves ants? we sprayed bug sprays of course. rip
Every time I watch something with bugs in it, I get little tingling sensations on my skin as if they're crawling on me! 😅
"Remember, ants are ants, not people." Damn, thanks for that. Those truths are why I watch this channel.
@alaska that's a better theory than mine any day of the week.
@Sarlat I'm sorry but was there something about my comment that seemed like a green light to come after me? I'm trying to understand what about my comment comes off as Karen-like.
@Puckosar so true. I wonder if it worked in this instance. I just had someone insinuate that I was a Karen in response to my above comment theorizing the reason behind the disclaimer. Reading really is fundamental isn't it?
@this is a comment by a person Le Fishe.
@Mosi A bit of an ironic statement Mosi, for here you are indeed!
In the Game of Ants you either win or you die there is no middle ground
- Cersei Polyergus
One of their craziest videos they've made......So good
This was amazing to watch, thanks
The single Polyergus young queen raiding a colony on her own is the embodiment of "gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss" lmao
Please never end the ant series. One of my favorite types of videos on your channel
@Cyan_Oxy The way I see it, space stuff is always cool, but anyone can do that. I've never been more interested in ants than I am watching Kurzgesagt.
@Cyan_Oxy Yes, I actually agree
Yea I love ants!
True, I've been interested in ants since Sim Ant. Such a great game
@chris The space stuff is probably a bit cooler but the ants are a close second.
Thanks for the little thing in the corner reminding people that ants aren't people: I get a little concerned with the amount of anthropomorphization of insects.
Very interesting video, but the species name should be pronounced the Latin way formica (which means "ant", indeed), not the English one, formaica.
As a kolonised citizen i felt this all the way in my ancestry
"I for one, welcome our new ant overlords..."
Im surprised no one yet has has made an RTS game but with ants...
Seriously, these guys are brutal...
Also, another beautiful visualization by Kurz...
Edit: Seems I didn't know there were Ant based RTSs out there. Thank you kind folk for telling me.
Empires of The Undergrowth is an AMAZING ant RTS, check it out!!
@gaming 𓂺 might install roblox just to try it. thanks for the recommendation
@Jason Reed yk I’d always thought of it more like an action-puzzle series, but the combat _is_ very RTS-y! Plus the way they take the corpses back to their nests to make more Pikmin is pretty anty (skipping a few steps). Good suggestion
Pikmin is a Nintendo property that while not actually an Ant RTS it is a great console RTS where you command an army of minions who are sorta like ants. They even referenced the death animation & sound effect from the games at 6:05 in this video.
@Kaitlyn L well, the game i mentioned do kinda requires strategy since you can build with chunks of dirt and dig, and there's 2 other colonies and spiders on the map and you constantly need to feed yourself and the queen
So idk, as long as your'e not one of those immature judgemental people i reccomend you check it out since it's free
You are known for
Kurzgesagt: educational and fun videos?
No
Kurzgesagt: warnings about and solutions for climate change?
No. Ant war videos.
Is it just me or does anyone else think animated ants look scarier than the real life ones?
I can't lie, I was going to kill an ant that entered my home the other day but it convinced me not to and now, we're roommates.
I just went from watching the atla intro and went to this right before katara said "everything changed." I am so good at this
As someone said, "truth is stranger than the fiction", this video proves it. This enslaving and world war of ants is more fascinating than any fictional movie, novel or TV series.
Nah none of the ants are hot I can't relate to them.
@Cheximus I never close the YT tab.
If you want some amazing fiction that is very much related to this video, go read Children of Time and Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
@4LF40M3G4Mark Twain. Almost
Not true. Every reality can be made weirder with the substitution or addition of Elmo(s). Imagine watching this whole video again, except all the ants are now Elmos. If you don't think that's stranger, I don't know what to say.
Its slavery in the sense that they were taken from their homes in a raid but its not really unwilling since they weren't actually born yet. Its an interesting behavior I never saw in ants before :0
About the last minute of the video... It's really disappointing to see you promote a harmful and even dangerous idea, that it's consumers' responsibility to limit their carbon footprint, and that personal consumer choices can make any significant impact. The only way to limit effects of the climate crisis is for the governments and international organizations to impose and strictly enforce regulations. Regulations that apply to everyone and more importantly - every company. This idea that we can mitigate climate change if we just all decide to change our lives is ridiculous when you think about it, but it got so normalized that to many people it sounds reasonable. But consider this: if the world didn't come together to sign the Montreal Protocol and then strictly adhere to it, but instead all we did about it was ask people to just do their part and start buying more expensive, CFC-free appliances and aerosols, do you really believe we would have made any significant progress regarding ozone depletion?
After seeing how this channel promotes no scientific information and they are actually a propaganda machine financed by billionaires, I lost all trust and figured out that all the information they spread is horribly false.
Love this video on European countries by Kurzgesagt.
I have never given more than 2 seconds of thought to how ants live. Suddenly I’m obsessed.
Thank you Kurzgesagt for making such amazing and captivating videos ❤
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@ChesterSnap omg yesss
welcome to your first Ant Phase lmao
Kurzgezagt: makes a video about ant slavery.
Commenters: it's... captivating!
Dude, there's a colony of ants that HARVEST AND FARM fungus. Little things are wild.
This is exactly what me and my friends do to villagers in Minecraft
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
Preserving the forest is good, but it's not offsetting your carbon footprint : it's an intellectual fallacy to pretend otherwise.
If one takes into account collective intelligence ants are the second most intelligent creatures after human in the animal kingdom. Individually they may be dumb but as an organisation their complexity rivals even humans!
Hive minds are quite amazing, arn't they
The fact that this is the fourth ant-centered video from Kurzgesagt makes me believe that this a cemented tradition for this channel now.
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@ad my dad makes your videos
What if....if..they on to something
Yeah they were pretty explicit about that in the first ant video they did.
Bro ants are amazing for if they evolved in strength then they could beat humans so they make up for a god study
Slavery will always come at one point to every intelligent species
Wait so Bugs Life is actually scientificaly accurate if you replace the grasshoppers with more ants?
Thank you for the subtitles Thank you to everyone
So you're saying that slavery is natural and occurs often in nature? Interesting...
Human: "This war crime is too horrible to commit..."
Ant: "Hold our treacle."
@Fandom guy My father is a war criminal. Try to convict him, you can't!
You asked for an example, I gave you one, that's all.
@Katzenoir I don't know it, but being in TV satisfy a lot and there has to be reason, why people watch it. If it's running, it means, it has good ratings.
@Win Reality TV
@happy whaleGive us an example, because even for fun is a reason and has a good explanation.
These ant videos are great, but if anyone wants to learn more about ants I recommend you read a book called “Adventures among Ants” by Mark Moffet. That book has lots of information about weaver ants, driver ants, marauder ants, slave maker ants, and more!
Amazing Video. I didn’t know there’s War right under my feet!
Obviously we need to get these poor victims restitution checks asap.
Ants sure know how to get things done 👴🏼
"Hey, Muhammad is running away! Get back to the fields!" 🐜🐜🐜
Love the ant series! Keep up the good work!
True, it is really interesting
@Jake Mitchell they have to have read the title to comment so no bot
I love ants
I want one on Bed bugs next
Valid
What would happen if a slaver ant colony encountered an army ant colony?
Rise up against your oppressors my ant brothers!
kurzgesagt i need more space contents 😭❤️❤️