The Horror of the Slaver Ant

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Everything changed when the slaver nation attacked. What used to be a thriving colony is now a captured country. Slaves do the work, serving their new masters until they die, only to be replaced by new victims harvested in brutal raids.

But let us go back to the beginning…

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[justinehercthehuman]

The fact that this is the fourth ant-centered video from Kurzgesagt makes me believe that this a cemented tradition for this channel now.

[cozymonk]

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.

[jyavant]

It’s astonishing for a singular ant to even have the chance of taking over an entire colony

[ethanwillis]

Fun fact: enslaved ants can ocasonaly rebel and either wipe out the slavers or drastically weaken them, though one way or another the rebels are killed, either from age or from the rebellion failing

[AngryAlfonse]

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.

[bzfro]

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!

[AmIAPacifist]

The more I learn about ants, the more I realize how metal their lifestyle is

[Abyz_]

bro the queen vs queen battle is crazy, it’s like the exact opposite of how humans do their war, the leaders sit back and chill while the workers (soldiers) fight till death, for these ants it’s like “fuck it i’ll do it myself”

[DARKWRXITH]

It's amazing that ants quite literally have their own lore

[_Meta.]

As a Polyergus, I found this video to be very informing and I thank you for giving me this knowledge to be able to enslave more colonies. I shall tell my queen about this. She'll be thrilled

[dinohall]

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.

[soldierstride]

Ants are so inherently social that the concept of an ant queen charging into an enemy nest *all on her own* messes with my mind!

[AJLeomusic]

Please never end the ant series. One of my favorite types of videos on your channel

[thatonegonewild]

Kurzgesagt never disappoints us when it comes to animations and information without us getting bored.

[ClassyName]

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!

[shadowfox]

Okay let's get this over with

Ants live in their own apocalypse

1: giant creatures that eat or kill them

2: other horrifying bugs that eat them in creative ways only a mentally insane person could think of

3: a mushroom virus that only infects spiders and ants literally makeing them go through the last of us but the infected commit suicide as the spores burst to spread the infection in the air

4: other ants going to war with other ants

5: ants that have strange abilitys like this one in the video

6: slavery

7: cannibalism

8: the ant death spiral

[mouldy_bowl_of_primordial_]

"Remember, ants are ants, not people." Damn, thanks for that. Those truths are why I watch this channel.

[JangoFox]

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.

[CosmicAggressor]

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

[Servingourstories]

The fact he started with Katara's speech in ant form made my day 😆 "Everything changed when the slaver nation attacked"