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Natural World: Ant Attack
In a quiet patch of forest, life is about to be turned upside down for its animal residents - the ants are coming. Spiders, scorpions and even forest crabs don't stand a chance. As food runs out, the ants, driven on by the ever-hungry grubs in the nest, have no choice but to attack the not so easily defeated termites. Armed with chemical weapons and fearsome jaws that could crush an ant to pulp, they're the ants' toughest adversaries. From the raw terror of battle to the inner-workings of an ant colony, this is television as you've never seen it before.

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[OreoVII]

1:18 "But the slug has a trick up it's sleeve..."
Slug: **pulls out a handgun**

[Lussra]

"The slug has a trick up its sleeve."

Unfortunately, the slug does not have a sleeve; it dies.

[Protect_all_ljfforms]

The fact the ants found a solution is far scarier than the normal insect horror show

[chimpyboi]

"Humans are so horrible! Why can't we be more like nature???"

Nature:

[computernoise]

Slug: "I'm not trapped in here with you. You're trapped... in me!"
Ants: _dirt_
Slug: "Dangit."

[kimjongun]

slug : has 50, 000 ants around it
me : oh it will die
narrator: but it has a coating
me: so will it survive
narrator: but ants have big brain

[sapphire]

NEVER IN MY LIFE, did I ever think I would feel sorry for a slug. But I certainly do for this little guy!

[RJALEXANDER]

It honestly makes me uncomfortable that ants are capable of defeating the slug's defences. 99% of the world's predators wouldn't ever come up with a solution. But ants with brains the size of a grain of sand can. There's something unsettling but very fascinating about that.

[kukualoo]

Sad music plays only when ants gets stuck.
Now we know whose side the sound editor is on

[MrAnonymous]

There's not a single insect documentaries out there that doesn't look like a complete horror film

[SixDigitOsu]

Wow the ants are so smart for using soil as a sponge, if i were an ant it would take very long for me to think of that

[kmentality]

The ants helping the other ants get out of the slugs goo is insane 🤯 they really are smart

[SteveGamesFTW]

Ants: That slug had us in the first half not gonna lie.

[drowninginplants]

I’m not comfortable with the fact that the ants figured out how to use the dirt to avoid the sticky-icky slug skin so I will be writing a formal complaint to God about ants

[shrirangtambe]

Death by thousand cuts...

It's remarkable how much small and neglegible individual ant is... Their team work and adaptation skills to challenges faced, resulted in remarkable achievement.

[GhostRavenFIN]

The intelligence and resourcefulness of ants never ceases to amaze me.

[lucasmatsuoca]

"But the slug has a trick up it's sleeve..."
Slug: eat me if ur gay
Ants: damn it

[FranzFerdinand]

"The slug tries to sit out the attack."

As opposed to their usual strategy of making a run for it.

[vjthehandsome]

It must be awful being a slug. They're the most cool and chill creatures I've ever seen.

[dy]

"I don't eat animals because I respect nature."
Nature: