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Giant Ant Hill Excavated

Mar 11, 2011 18:10

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invertebrates, ants, insects

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gwenyvere4 March 11 2011, 15:17:28 UTC

WOW.

plumtreeblossom March 11 2011, 15:22:53 UTC

I had to watch with the sound off because I'm at work. Why was it necessary for them to dig out this anthill?

celarania March 11 2011, 15:35:15 UTC

According to a comment on youtube, you see earlier in the documentary that the whole thing was abandoned. So I think digging it out was just for research.

shakatany March 11 2011, 16:33:55 UTC

It's incredible to think that tiny ants carried 40 tons of dirt to the surface to create this city. The power of their hivemind is incredible.

Shakatany

crusaderfobbit March 11 2011, 21:52:17 UTC

If you take the total number of ants working on this project and factor in the total project time-span, it becomes a lot less amazing. They do not consciously elaborate the plan and implement it. It's just a very complex system of signal-strings that have proven themselves useful over time by not leading to colony failure.

sorrelchestnut March 11 2011, 17:59:05 UTC

That is incredible.

nunas March 11 2011, 18:31:44 UTC

Wow, that is insane.