Best Of Ants | BBC Earth

Our Top 5 Ant Moments.

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[JoyceGem]

An ant's life is so dramatic, it could be a tv series.

[alejandromendez]

Who need Game of Thrones while you can just watch ants.

[yoboikamil]

Litteraly anything : *exists*

Ants : N U T R I E N T S

[RAY-THE-WAY]

*slug thinking he won*
*Ants with soil*
Slug: “why do I hear boss music?”

[Quazi-moto]

The ants putting dirt on the slug shows a level of problem-solving skills that I would NEVER have expected from them!!! This had to come from a single ant getting an idea to use something to soak up that slime, and either knew dirt was good for the job, or experimented until they found the right material. That, or some saw the benefit of it having happened by accident, understood what had happened well enough to want to employ that method again (which also shows planning ahead), and reproduced the conditions. Either way, that is some kind of impressive behavior for such a small-brained creature.
So wild... wow!

[rextunde]

“Ants keep slugs alive”

*ants proceed to absolutely annihilate the slug...*

[evenif]

That stuff with the dirt and the slug was wayyyy to smart 😬 we're so lucky these things are tiny 😅

[librus]

Despite them being such simple creatures at their core, Ants are some of the most amazing insects out there. They can perform agriculture, keep livestock, work in symbiosis with countless other species of insect, wage wars, establish borders... and even adapt to handle almost anything they come across. And yet I still get surprised, I had no idea that some species produce "Kings", or that some ants can revolt against unsatisfactory queens. Billions of these tiny, simple insects working together to perform such complex and almost humanlike tasks, and they're so tiny that this happens all around us without us even noticing. (Or them really noticing us!)

[slaughtered]

I feel there's one guy who's job is only to stir Lasagne to make all the 'squelching ants' sound for the entire series.

[tomnuttall]

Larvae: What’s for dinner, Mum..?

Worker Ant : yes exactly.

[rezastella]

The French: decapitate the king
Ants : Oui

[Fitchy-kewz]

'His job done, he retires from the royal chamber, and dies.'

[mikhailromanovskii]

In case you are wondering, they do not always eat the eggs they loot from the defeated nest. Some species of ants carry them home and raise them. You could say "as their own", but it's more like "as slaves".
Sometimes ants are so human it's frightening.

[MsDADDYFATSAC]

Nobody-

Ant in your backyard- "Execute Order 66"

[m.shahryarahmed]

I'd like to give a moment of silence for the camera man who had to shrink himself to record the footage

[regularm]

so when an ant queen get bored, she decide to create an army, cool trick

[HeyLittleTown]

Queen: *farts* oopsie

Male ant: *INHALES* it's go time

[elijahlungu]

The final attack felt like a scene from Game of Thrones...cold

[yashsaraswat]

So let me get this straight
A male got attracted by the queen's "smell"
Followed it
Got ambushed
Had to "John wick" his wings to shed weight to boink
And then boinks
And then... Dies.

Okay.

[tigornomics]

Then some guys pour molten aluminum into the soil and transform the entire ant emperor into a valuable work of art.