Ants Build Underground City
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man, what you talking about...???
it's clear to me that ants that work THAT damn hard are catholic mexican ants.
c'mon, bruh... you should know shit like this already.
do not use the m-word.
nor speak of them favorably
Damn good post fam...that's some incredible shit.
Yes in theory
And I'm about to take the thread off track again with this upcoming comment (sorry Tha Illest) but it's said that the Greys all have a Hive mind. It's creepy as hell, one of the many benefits is that knowledge is readily available because what everyone else knows, you know. But you can't act or think on your own. Major draw back.
the drawbacks outweigh the positives in my humble opinion.
Maybe Greys are evolved ants?
Who knows what they're exactly, but they do look insectoid. Beats me.
evolution is a hell of a thing.
Who knows what they're exactly, but they do look insectoid. Beats me.
evolution is a hell of a thing.
Maybe they're genetically engineered FROM ants.
Ants have been studied thoroughly for creating networking switches. The chemical trail concept of creating the shortest path to an object has also been used in navigational systems...
great responses here...
damn... they tuff azz hell.. 1 of the 8th wonders of the world...
Ants are actually smarter than roaches. In fact, when a large King ant with wings from another colony enters the Queen's colony, the colony quickly attacks the King ant to find out if it is food. The wings are clipped and all creveces are searched for soft penetration. Ants will eat from inside the prey's body to outside. As the King ant moves through the colony, if the ant doesn't make it to the Queen, the King will become food. Nothing gets wasted. After mating, the King ant will leave the colony and die shortly. Those Kings look like large termites but are smaller than the Queen. If you were to put a bunch of roaches in any ant colony, the colony of ants would quickly attack to seek food and protect the queen. The roaches would not work as an army; the roaches would flee by scattering. Even waterbugs and palmetto bugs have no chance. The ant picks apart soft tissue in all areas. Then rips with tiny claws or large ones in the case of the African driver ants.
Why do I know so much? I watched a show on the discovery channel back in Jan of this yr. And yes, ants have been around as long as roaches, if not longer. Research if you don't believe me.
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Ants. The world's greatest engineers
Another show to look out for is called, Ants: Nature's Secret Power. Don't sleep on these shows that are featured on the Discovery Channel. Check your T.V. listing.
Psyche! Fire Ants Play Dead
Dave Mosher
Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
Mon Apr 14, 12:41 AM ET
Opossums do it, some snakes do it and even big bison do it. Now a new study now shows fire ants do it, too.
When threatened by danger, the young insects will play dead to fake out an attacker.
"No one has ever reported this before, and it was a big shock to me," said Deby Cassill, an evolutionary biologist at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. "Ants from an attacking colony will come up to inspect them, and they'll be curled up just like a dead ant. Then moments later they uncurl and walk away."
Cassill and her students also noticed that as the ants age - some live six months to a year - they grow out of the curious behavior. Middle-aged ants tend to flee, while the eldest are aggressive and attack furiously.
"All worker ants are sterile females, so it's the cranky old ladies who are the ones fighting to the death," Cassill said.
She thinks several evolutionary reasons are behind the pesky ants' smart behavior.
"The exoskeletons of young ants are actually quite soft, so they're more vulnerable to attack than older ants with thicker, tougher body parts," Cassill explained. "They also don't have a lot of attacking power because of the softness of their exoskeleton."
Cassill said the behavior is likely inherited, through genes and other factors, but said the capabilities of ants never cease to amaze her.
"By studying individual ants, you find that they're hugely different from one to another," she said. "Some work harder than others, some are more submissive, and they just seem to have this semblance of personality. They're really quite complex little creatures."
Cassill and several of her undergraduate students noticed the behavior by studying close-up videos of ants, and detail their findings in the April 5 issue of the journal Naturwissenschaften.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/psychefireantsplaydead
Dave Mosher
Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
Mon Apr 14, 12:41 AM ET
Opossums do it, some snakes do it and even big bison do it. Now a new study now shows fire ants do it, too.
When threatened by danger, the young insects will play dead to fake out an attacker.
"No one has ever reported this before, and it was a big shock to me," said Deby Cassill, an evolutionary biologist at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. "Ants from an attacking colony will come up to inspect them, and they'll be curled up just like a dead ant. Then moments later they uncurl and walk away."
Cassill and her students also noticed that as the ants age - some live six months to a year - they grow out of the curious behavior. Middle-aged ants tend to flee, while the eldest are aggressive and attack furiously.
"All worker ants are sterile females, so it's the cranky old ladies who are the ones fighting to the death," Cassill said.
She thinks several evolutionary reasons are behind the pesky ants' smart behavior.
"The exoskeletons of young ants are actually quite soft, so they're more vulnerable to attack than older ants with thicker, tougher body parts," Cassill explained. "They also don't have a lot of attacking power because of the softness of their exoskeleton."
Cassill said the behavior is likely inherited, through genes and other factors, but said the capabilities of ants never cease to amaze her.
"By studying individual ants, you find that they're hugely different from one to another," she said. "Some work harder than others, some are more submissive, and they just seem to have this semblance of personality. They're really quite complex little creatures."
Cassill and several of her undergraduate students noticed the behavior by studying close-up videos of ants, and detail their findings in the April 5 issue of the journal Naturwissenschaften.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/psychefireantsplaydead
Yo this shit is crazy
[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/xQERRbU23bU&eurl[/FLASH]
i have seen it before. but its still amazing
World you are my brotha for real...we always seein' eye to eye.
For those that CAN'T or WON'T think of any of the other ways they could have researched the ant labyrinth just think about this:
1. Imagining technology. the shit is used everyday. From MRI scans to thermal signature identification equipment in the military and in civilian life, since it was carbon dioxide and fresh oxygen that they were ventilating in and out of their colony.
2. From the data they gathered they could have created a 3D virtual simulation and been able to either explore the colony that way, or recreate one themselves in the form of a real life model if they wanted to from the dimensions they found.
3. They were just being lazy as hell. Oh, and when I mean lazy I mean intellectually lazy, because they did dig a lot of shit up, which took a lot of physical labor. Scientist, especially biologist, should know better and have a certain respect for the organisms they are doing research on.
Like someone else mentioned, there may be other colonies like that, but what if that colony was the equivalent of one of the greatest human civilizations ever structured? Well then, we just fucked that up I guess...
ants digging tunnels 900x life speed
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[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/GtRNBHM3DR0&hl[/FLASH]
Incredible Ritual With Hundreds of Poisonous Bullet Ants
[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/9WQ6rFKhyn0&hl[/FLASH]
Bullet Ants Fungus
[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/CCOQ0VU24xw&hl[/FLASH]
[FLASH]http://www.youtube.com/v/CCOQ0VU24xw&hl[/FLASH]
Watching "Ant Wars" right now...
Read an article on that sometime back, turns out that they actually count their steps and do some sort of instinctive trig calculations in their head. The researchers ended up cutting the ant's legs in half after they had left the nest and seeing how the ants performed then to come to their conclusions.
I think if humans fuck up then it may well be an insect species that has next. World War IV, intelligent ants vs. intelligent roaches.
World you are my brotha for real...we always seein' eye to eye.
For those that CAN'T or WON'T think of any of the other ways they could have researched the ant labyrinth just think about this:
1. Imagining technology. the shit is used everyday. From MRI scans to thermal signature identification equipment in the military and in civilian life, since it was carbon dioxide and fresh oxygen that they were ventilating in and out of their colony.
2. From the data they gathered they could have created a 3D virtual simulation and been able to either explore the colony that way, or recreate one themselves in the form of a real life model if they wanted to from the dimensions they found.
3. They were just being lazy as hell. Oh, and when I mean lazy I mean intellectually lazy, because they did dig a lot of shit up, which took a lot of physical labor. Scientist, especially biologist, should know better and have a certain respect for the organisms they are doing research on.
Like someone else mentioned, there may be other colonies like that, but what if that colony was the equivalent of one of the greatest human civilizations ever structured? Well then, we just fucked that up I guess...
Your heart is in the right place but stop over-empathizing, they're only ants.
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They're ANTS! Man has been killing them since the beginning. They will go on. Did you notice all the ANTS while they were excavating the colony? You can kill them by the billions and they'll keep on coming. What we learn by pouring cement down one colony could lead to all kinds of discoveries: eco-friendly building and HVAC, insights into 'hive mentality', etc. You are INSANE. I hope you carry around a little broom and sweep a path every time you take a step in your Birkenstocks, ant murderers!
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They're ANTS! Man has been killing them since the beginning. They will go on. Did you notice all the ANTS while they were excavating the colony? You can kill them by the billions and they'll keep on coming. What we learn by pouring cement down one colony could lead to all kinds of discoveries: eco-friendly building and HVAC, insights into 'hive mentality', etc. You are INSANE. I hope you carry around a little broom and sweep a path every time you take a step in your Birkenstocks, ant murderers!
exactly what the fuck i was thinking
This could officially be the 8th Natural Wonder of the world. I was about to buy a foreclosed home, but I may need to contract these guys for my next pad.
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I do. I thought of this as I was watching.
She is and it is f*cked up how they do.
Funny I was thinking of something along those lines.On the real though, without loss in one area there cannot be gain in another. I do think whites go overboard with having to prove things but hey, I love nature due to the fact they f*cked up sh!t and are always trying to fix it.
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