What's Inside An Anthill?

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When you look at a fire ant hill — or mound as it’s properly called — you’re actually seeing just the top of an enormous underground structure: the ant’s nest. Inside, a vast network of tunnels and chambers plunge up to 2 meters into the soil. Ants ferry their young up and down these tunnels to keep them at the best temperature to grow.

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What's Inside An Anthill?

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Everyone gangsta until molten metal starts pouring from the sky.

raymond

Did anybody else come here out of curiosity?

kingofwolfstreet

7 year old me : *steps on it*
*runs*

Mari

"What's inside an anthill?"

Coyote Peterson: My hands.

TheRealGuywithoutaMustache

"What's inside an anthill?"

Bear Grylls: _Food_

raz

What's inside an anthill?

Ants.

terraxgaming

A big salute to the cameraman who went down there for us

cheesem

Now I'm no big city anthill expert or anything, but I'm gonna guess that it contains ants

Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access

Their home is so big. How they remember all the tunnels 😂😂

sajjalsarma

Awesome video! Ant love forever! ❤🐜 One minor correction: Footage at 2:51 are termites, not ants. They do look antish, though!

AntsCanada

And this is why ants are some of the coolest creatures on the planet.
They’re tiny humans, kinda! Sure, weird gender roles and the exoskeletons, yeah, communicating with pheromones... but they still do a lot of things that humans do, too! And this is a demonstration of their genius. I love them so much.

GlorySnowstar

"What's inside an anthill?"

Murderous Molten Aluminum Guy: *"aRtWoRk"*

chae

Also interesting is what a anthill says about ants. It shows they are much like humans. Some ants are lazy and drop the dirt they are carrying right at the entrance to the colony. Some ants(most) are good workers and drop their load in the middle and highest part of the pile of dirt removed from the hive. Some ants are great workers and drag their loads all the way to the outer edge of the anthill. They even grab the dirt the lazier ants drop by the entrance and drag it out to the outer edge of the pile. This is why you have the ring around the colony with the highest part where the average ants drop their load.

justfun

I live in New York and there are so many ant mounds in my yard it makes me sick. I don’t want to use chemicals. I can’t even imagine what going on underground where I can’t see.

drinny