Here's the link to the podcast! watchnebula.com/modulus/working-under-pressure

@saksham01

3 жыл бұрын

i'm sorry.. did you say HOT GLUE GUN?? bruh

@grandunification6226

3 жыл бұрын

I find that super organism thing as a one similar to an multicellular body, where many cells(like ants here) work together for the brain to function without doing any other tasks of their own.

@wik7or214

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like you should do a follow up with the unusual biologo of Ants talking about the type of ants when a queen dies there is contenders that fight for the queen spot or vampire ants which feed on their larvae blood, and the type of ants which can form life-boats, where even thoiusands of ants form a boat on water and it floats flawlessly and perhaps a few more insanely unusual ant types there is

@onlyeyeno

3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm... Maybe I'm a bit "dull" but how can ant's who are part of the same colony be "unrelated" ?? (as proposed @13:49) Are they not all offspring from the same Queen ??? I would really appreciate an explanation, as I'm not saying that there is "nothing to the claim" BUT I fail to understand how there could be !! Best regards

@grandunification6226

3 жыл бұрын

@@onlyeyeno as much as I know, in few species of ants there can be more than one queen in a colony.

"They're found on every continent except *Ant*arctica." _ironic_

@FriedFreya

3 жыл бұрын

Antarctica was named for being the southmost region of the world. "The opposite of the north" haha :')

@terrafirma5327

3 жыл бұрын

Not irony but a funny pun or non-sequitur.

@juliankandlhofer7553

3 жыл бұрын

​@@sentientteapot6499 "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result." i expect there to be ants in antarctica.

@tevenbokanoski9554

3 жыл бұрын

That's funny!

@JoLes98

3 жыл бұрын

I went straight to the comment section after hearing that phrase in the video, and found this comment lol

Imagine being a baby and your aunt decides to use you for arts and crafts.

@cneer17

3 жыл бұрын

Imagine being born & your head is literally the door

@usaball9190

3 жыл бұрын

@@cneer17 imagine being born and being a refrigerator for the rest of your life.

@cneer17

3 жыл бұрын

@@usaball9190 ? I’m unfamiliar

@usaball9190

3 жыл бұрын

@@cneer17 kzread.info/dash/bejne/n5Vrmrhxm7rAkdY.html

@cneer17

3 жыл бұрын

@@usaball9190 😯

"Using their babies like a hot glue gun" is not a sentence I would ever imagine of hearing

@dathanchevli7514

Жыл бұрын

😮

Wow, you unblocked a memory! When i was like 6-7 years old and i was playing somewhere outside i saw one group of ants that were standing still, without moving, and even if i threatened or touched them they would still not move. I didn't think much of it since i was just a little child, but the memory of this odd event sticked to my mind apparently. Today i've watched this documentary, and as soon as i saw those dying ants all still at 12:06 this childhood memory immediately popped up! Now, after about 30 years, i understand what happened. Those guys had lost their queen and they were letting themselves go. Thank you!!

@Shogal28

Жыл бұрын

Let me bet u probably killed their queen without knowing it back then 😂

@gamesforgames1727

2 ай бұрын

Wow that's actually a really rare event since some queens can live too 30 years!!!

Aren't they awesome?! True rulers of the Earth! Ant love forever! ❤🐜🐜🐜 PS - Hate to be that guy but the creatures at 0:38 are actually termites. Not your fault; whoever catalogued that footage thought they were ants. I've seen the exact stock footage used in tv shows and videos about ants.

@vietlee4290

3 жыл бұрын

I was expecting you arrival here several days ago

@lunezion7329

2 жыл бұрын

Hello ants canada

@darrelldevo2820

2 жыл бұрын

I love Ants Canada ! It's all Ant Love!

@shrektheeverchosen6457

2 жыл бұрын

Ant love forever!

@black_hydra1618

2 жыл бұрын

They cannot withstand the art of, the thumb... I've dedicated at least a minute practicing and I am already a grand master to this I say come at me ant's for you are no match against my opposable digit.

"Maybe you Immediately thought of the blue whale." Nah mate, thought of ants. It's the title of the video

@Haiphong778

3 жыл бұрын

do often think of whale though.

@samsonwilkinson8090

2 жыл бұрын

The clue's in the title my dear Watson.

@satyanarayanaaitha7213

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha.... U are right buddy

@richardlecomte6839

2 жыл бұрын

Ah..you are extraordinary perceptive.

@henryviiifake8244

2 жыл бұрын

How could the Blue Whale be "dominant" when it feeds on shrimp and can get bodied by hairless apes with opposable thumbs. 🥱😴

Scientists cutting open ants and spreading their juices on the ground to see if the other ants react... Imagine how terrifying it would be if aliens did that while trying to study us. :[

"And been the subject of every kids backyard curiosity" That reminds me of when my youngest sister was a toddler. We went to visit one of my mom's college friends, and my sister was totally engrossed in watching an anthill out front. My mom's friend's husband thought she was the coolest little kid for being so fascinated by the ants. It was super cute.

Dude where did this amazing channel come from Absolutely flawless sound design, script and editing

@dahasolomon7314

Жыл бұрын

Definitely and the narrators voice is also amazing.

@darkxinfinity8674

3 ай бұрын

The algorithm gives the algorithm takes

first thing that came to mind when talking about the most dominant creature was funghi and lichen... we need to know more about funghi and lichen *_*

@realscience

3 жыл бұрын

great suggestion!

@m_artist9657

3 жыл бұрын

Thats right

@abhayprasad9580

3 жыл бұрын

Very good topic pls cover

@Dragrath1

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget their essential role in the evolution of plants without them green algae would never have been able to colonize the land in away fungi are literally natures fertilizer as they trade nutrients obtained from organic matter, the soil and or rocks themselves. Lichens likewise are more of ecosystems in their own right. Around half a billion years ago plants basically were just another variation on lichens with a green algae replacing the cyanobacteria but just look at how far things have come!

@sharpshooter4529

3 жыл бұрын

The question was which was the most dominant animal.And fungi and lichens are not in that kingdom.In terms of sheer biomass it goes like this. Microrganisms (bacteria),Plants,Fungi,Insects (about 20-25% of that are ants).So as a single group or type of animal or in this case the familiy formicidae (ants) ants are by far the most numerous and prevalent.

When I was a kid, I used to observe ants in my neighborhood. Occasionally I would see two ants touching their antennae together, but I thought that maybe I was imagining it. But this video shows that ants really do that as a form of communication. So I was right after all.

Very informative video! But I wish you would have mentioned, the underlying mechanism for eusociality among some insects (ants, bees etc.) probably is the sex determination via "haplodiploidy" a.k.a "arrhenotoky", where male drones hatching from unfertilized eggs have half the chromosome set of her queen mom, while the queen and the infertile female workers have the full (diploid) set. Ultimately this makes the workers more related to each other (75%) than to her mother or their male siblings (50%). This favor eusociality: helping the queen laying more eggs spreads the workers' genes more effectively than they could do on their own.

@samcashkad4934

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. This is not in opposition with gene-centered natural selection.

@Anne44444

6 ай бұрын

Exactly, I was waiting for them to mention this!

that method for using larvae as biological hot glue gun is some next level child labor stuff lol

@00FireFlyer00

Жыл бұрын

if little ants can do such crazy stuff imagine what a species can do thats millions of years ahead of us in evolution and technical advantsments its mind boggling

@Zantjez

Жыл бұрын

you have never heard of the vampire ant, their larvae are the food, they feed the larvae and the adult's drink the blood of the larvae.

Ants are truly insane! Did you know that wood ants even sacrifice their own lives to save their colony? The territorial battles that break out between neighboring anthills each spring are warfare of the highest order, involving thousands of casualties and chemical weapons. Our film team was thrilled when they watched two colonies how they conduct scouting expeditions and subdue their enemies.

@thunderedsun203

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@ASLUHLUHCE

3 жыл бұрын

I mean humans do that too

@epRivera

3 жыл бұрын

Your team is horrible for being thrilled at seeing war (Joke)

@erwinnijs1

2 жыл бұрын

@@ASLUHLUHCE It is strange that people still do that. We don't live in tribes anymore. We evolved to live in family units. We don't need territories to forage in anymore ever since we started farming and trading. Yet we, or more accurate, some of us hold on to old collectivist instincts.

@ASLUHLUHCE

2 жыл бұрын

@@erwinnijs1 It isn't at all strange

As I found out too late with the cucumbers that I was growing this year, some ants will even farm aphids for the juice that the aphids produce. Ants are pretty amazing... though I'm still upset at them for causing my cucumbers demise.

I've watched countless videos on ants, and I can confirm this is the best so far, covering all the basics while giving some great details on this beings. Congratulations on this work. The editing and music were spot on too

Wow ants have more plans and ideas for their lives than i do lol

@rashoietolan3047

3 жыл бұрын

Self depreciation is a disease

@davekerryvane3015

2 жыл бұрын

I am not surprised at all

@bigone1857

2 жыл бұрын

Qsakat rasta

@dmeemd7787

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 nicely done lolol

@gabrielvanlalruata2528

2 жыл бұрын

@@rashoietolan3047 live a little

Using their babies as a hot glue gun 😂

@ImieNazwiskoOK

3 жыл бұрын

"YEET the CHILD"

@terrafirma5327

3 жыл бұрын

They gotta pull their weight around here.

@sazminsulaiman2466

3 жыл бұрын

no free rent in this house

@tonycollazorappo

3 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@aperson3413

3 жыл бұрын

@@sazminsulaiman2466xd

Very interesting, absolutely love this channel, always leaves me wanting to learn more. Educational channels are the best part of KZread. Definitely gonna check out the podcast. Keep it up 👏👏

Thank you for this, it was very interesting & informative. Please keep up the great work.

Was that your hand at 0:46 Steph? Definitely seems like something you would do......

@wik7or214

3 жыл бұрын

Ive done that once, unwillingly as a 5 byear old, wasnt fun being bitten everywhere, and idk what ants it was, but it bloody burned for hours

@jackthedestroyer2891

3 жыл бұрын

@@wik7or214 fire ant

@assumjongkey1383

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackthedestroyer2891 every body super sonic races!

@Think_Inc

3 жыл бұрын

@Real Engineering XD

@immanuelhall4577

3 жыл бұрын

why does your comment sound like an insult?

the dying of a colony after a queen dies depends on the ant species. Yellow crazy ants for one are known to merge nests with other Yellow crazy ants and housing multiple queens.

@dylankersten3383

3 жыл бұрын

Nice fact

@Someone-ry1nh

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget the super colonies

@Hammer_Of_Olympia

3 жыл бұрын

I cannot, for the life of me believe they’re called Yellow Crazy Ants ahaha, that’s brilliant. Thanks for the info!

@Hammer_Of_Olympia

2 жыл бұрын

@CL Melonshark holy fuck really? Goddamn insects are cool as fuck. Don’t really know many cool facts. I’ll just say this one through that I always find cool, the Immortal Jellyfish are essentially called that due to being able to revert themselves back to a polyp stage, the polyp is genetically identical to medusa jellyfish and thus is essentially immortal, hence the name. I think that’s right, but knowing me it’s probably not

@owl.fondlerrosenberg2441

2 жыл бұрын

right Sir🐢👽🐾💗

I knew about weaver ants, but I didn't know the extent of their colony building process. That's actually amazing. Everytime I watch something on ants, I understand why scientists say if they were bigger they'd take over humans lol

At the end of these um always so excited by your business endeavors and your creations of great connections and content, thank you!

Fun fact, this video is about the most common type of ants, there is ants were there is no queens... And worker fight whith eachother to become the next queen

@Trentrick_Lamar

3 жыл бұрын

I made a bunch of clarifications with my own comment lol

@wakar7031

3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, no one is talking about Ants Fight Club.

@rolandcucicea6006

3 жыл бұрын

@@wakar7031 first rule of the hyve: we don't talk about the hyve

@abhayprasad9580

3 жыл бұрын

@@Trentrick_Lamar name of that spices?

@santo9872

3 жыл бұрын

@@abhayprasad9580 diacamma rugosum, the name of the worker reproductive is “gamergate”

It's very impressive how much stock footage they were able to find on ants.

@meowza

2 жыл бұрын

I mean you could point a camera to the ground anywhere and you’ll probably get some ant footage

@Mark-Wilson

2 жыл бұрын

ants are everywhere lol

@AliHSyed

2 жыл бұрын

Ants🤡are🤡 everywhere🤡

@Mark-Wilson

2 жыл бұрын

@@AliHSyed uhh ok...

@AliHSyed

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mark-Wilson sorry lol, I hear you but getting stock footage is so much more than pointing your phone at the ground

I hope this channel grows really big. Amazing well put videos.

That these videos don’t have 100 million views is kinda sad. This is many lifetimes of gathered information and put into a consumable form and format. Keep it up.

Human toddler: eats glue* Ant toddler: makes glue*

@liberationwasalie2982

2 жыл бұрын

Human adult: *sniffs glue*

@lasercraft32

Ай бұрын

The circle of life~

I like ants because whenever they come inside my house in a line I know it's going to be rainy season

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647

3 жыл бұрын

Or cold

@ronwesilen4536

3 жыл бұрын

Or because you left food there..

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronwesilen4536 not always the case but possible

@ronwesilen4536

3 жыл бұрын

@@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 i live in a place with mild seasons and humid weather so it is the only case in my house

@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronwesilen4536 Do you live in the South? I do for now ants are a year-round thing

I really like your voice. The animations are solid The topics go quite in depth without being too complex. I learned a lot from this Great job

I'm not an evolutionary biologist but I enjoy learning about evolution. That said, my understanding is that group selection is not incompatible with the idea that selection takes place at the level of the gene. The way you presented this information was a little confusing because it made it sound that way. The way I think of it is that superorganisms like ants are just another layer/abstraction above multicellular organisms in the same way that individuals are a layer above the genes themselves. If you peel back the layers it looks something like: genes -> cells -> animals (multicellular life forms) -> super organisms.

Imagine not being found on a continent THAT LITERALLY HAS YOUR NAME IN IT. You had one job, ants😑

@floo1465

3 жыл бұрын

@@helo6824 it’s a joke.

@hornerfarah2282

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@stevengayler8447

2 жыл бұрын

Antarctica means where there are no bears contrasted by the Arctic which means where there are bears.

@martinmarkov9707

2 жыл бұрын

That's probably the decimated continent they came from before it iced over, having been traveling across the seas and oceans, hunting cril 0-0, looking for a land to call warzone.. home, yeah..

@IndigoPath

2 жыл бұрын

Wait until they find the giant fossilized ant hills under the icecaps ;)

Fantastic presentation. I have been obsessed with Ants my whole life. Even King Solomon mentioned them. Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.

@timothyball7502

2 жыл бұрын

You Study Scriptures, good for you. Evolution is Evil. And this video is Evil, uses evolution. 11-14-2021

@hemana3859

2 жыл бұрын

But the queen is tantamount

@jannetteberends8730

2 жыл бұрын

Never understood why specifically the sluggard should go the ants, because the rest of the verse is not about hard working. But about organizing, and not needing a king to do that. And how does observing ants make you wise.

@JustTayo

2 жыл бұрын

Hallelujah

@falondonahue8457

2 жыл бұрын

@@timothyball7502 If you don't like the video then don't watch it and if you're not going to say anything nice about the video then don't say anything at all! Also I'm a Christian and I do NOT see anything evil about the video because it's just a video about ants.

This is one of the best science channels on KZread. Love this so much.

One of my favorite videos. Keep coming every now and then.

Imagine a leafy ball full with millions of ants dropping from the tree top instead of an apple while a young scientist is reading a book and thinking about the world...

@ulmannia

3 жыл бұрын

@@helo6824 we would not have gravity today if it had happened

@emmanuelogunlana877

2 жыл бұрын

I still think there would be the Newton Law of gravity , except he was distracted by the thousands of 🐜 crawling all over him and not asking why they fell to the ground.

@mjk6618

2 жыл бұрын

Then Gravity AND Newton wouldn't Exist! Haha! (Gravity STILL doesn't really!) No such thing as Gravity : ONLY "Buoyancy & Density". 👉 Unless Gravity is a Word that groups in BOTH aspecting factors.... But then again, that's simply ridiculous!

@BodyMusicification

2 жыл бұрын

Gravity exists, but it's not a force

@aquababy5

2 жыл бұрын

@@BodyMusicification it enacts a force on you, because you have mass

Ants : Individuality is overrated. FOR THE SWARM!

@juliangonzales3490

3 жыл бұрын

For The Colony!

@adJEKKTiv

3 жыл бұрын

For the horde!

@chengkuoklee5734

3 жыл бұрын

WE are the SWARM....

@patrickboucher2907

2 жыл бұрын

SWARMS RULE! Hail the Swarm and all its swarminess!

@henryviiifake8244

2 жыл бұрын

Hive Mind Grindset 💪🐜🐜🐜🐜

You are a master at introducing your topics. Your intros literally PEAK interest

Excellent educational content; well photographed, researched, and narrated.

Not just ants, but trees are also more of a group connected by their roots than individuals. Humans as well. It's like the Earth is a living superorganism with "species" acting like systems when zoomed in.

@TheDragonBloom

2 жыл бұрын

Loving that someone else sees the larger picture! The Earth, not the individual creatures living on it, is alive.

@ShihammeDarc

Жыл бұрын

Humans aren't eusocial

@myspleenisbursting4825

2 ай бұрын

​@@ShihammeDarc Nobody said they were

An ant's loyalty is the ultimate Chinese's government dream

@XDarkGreyX

3 жыл бұрын

We'll see where that leads humanity.... Edit: to be clear, while many things about Chinese society make me uncomfortable, I don't think of their ways as wrong. Neither do I believe that countries on the other end are on the "right" end. I mostly know what I prefer and what I dislike. Time will tell what ultimately works and what does not... For all the worshippers below: why not move to China if you think THAT highly of their ways.

@cosmicwakes6443

3 жыл бұрын

@@XDarkGreyX Prosperity and peace.

@dustman96

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, better to be at odds with each other and fight everyone else like we do here. I'm sure that'll work out good.

@dustman96

3 жыл бұрын

It's really sad to see how stupid people are that they just regurgitate Trumps rhetoric without any critical thinking.

@cosmicwakes6443

3 жыл бұрын

@@dustman96 This is the stupid human nature argument which states that humans are essentially greedy and self centered and society plays no role in the development of certain traits. Humans living in medieval feudal society were different to humans in capitalist society today and those are different to humans living in hunter gatherer society.

if the colony is born from 1 queen, they are all siblings, so I think the Dawkin's kinship theory still stands for ants...

I feel that calling them "queen" ants and imagining them to be rulers over the colony is us projecting ourselves onto the ants. That's why I like the idea of "the superorganism." She's not a queen, she's merely the reproductive organ.

@thefluffyaj4119

2 жыл бұрын

yea, the queen doesn't really give any orders. the workers keep her alive only because the superorganism will due without her. they take care of her so she can make more babies, because that it literally all she does

This shows why we shouldn’t underestimate how advanced all the other forms of life is. What they lack in sophisticated technology and intelligence, they make up for with “brilli-ant” and mind blowing evolutionary and survival strategies. The amount of knowledge we can gain by studying them, and the rest of nature is truly extraordinary!

Thank you for making such amazing videos! I've been searching for a great educational biology channel forever.

Very interesting, absolutely love this channel, always leaves me wanting to learn more. Educational channels are the best part of KZread. Definitely gonna check out the podcast. Keep it up

Damn, this world is so amazing. And we just take it for granted. We are surrounded by magic. Btw this must be the best channel on KZread

It’s weird once you get the pattern of your intonation of words, when you read. I can hear the upspeak at the end of almost every word

@grandunification6226

3 жыл бұрын

True. That has made me get engaged to it.

@whiteblack6865

3 жыл бұрын

I don't get it? Are you talking about the video's narrator?

@shadbakht

3 жыл бұрын

@@whiteblack6865 yes

@existencemystery

Жыл бұрын

Green nature Juice, ocean Power, Seeable IDs, doctors having power, more music(please, please molested kids)like beats without annoying tick, and Spider-Man metal (Shelter, miracle) Either regular brown 50/ between white and black, or possibly 4 main colors

Dawkins explains insect altruism perfectly in The Selfish Gene using bees.

@juanausensi499

3 жыл бұрын

True. Ants and bees have a weird haplodiploid sex-determination system (males only have a copy of the chromosomes) that makes workers more closely related to each other than to her mother (the queen). Because of this, a worker ant can better spread her own genes by aiding the queen make more sisters than she having her own children.

@nahuel92

2 жыл бұрын

More people should read this comment.

@rasmusforchhammer9557

2 жыл бұрын

Yes a brilliant book altogether

@varunachar87

2 жыл бұрын

This video's handling of the natural selection topic was abysmal: (1) it kept repeating sensational and provocative rhetorical questions like "could scientists be mistaken about the definition of an individual?" without actually going into any meaningful detail. (2) to the extent that it described Dawkins' ideas, it misrepresented them as "selection on the level of an individual" and failed to mention his compelling genetic arguments. (3) again, its discussion of group selection theory was all sensation and no detail. Overall, the channel comes off as Nat Geo--like in its approach to nature documentaries. I hope for its sake and for the sake of its subscribers that I'm wrong.

@juanausensi499

2 жыл бұрын

@@varunachar87 You're not wrong.

Absolutely mind blowing! I love this channel!

This video left me in awe. Amazing content

The quality of videos have improved tremendously! I remember your first video has some decent narration, but this one is just amazing! ( Maybe even better than Real Engineering xD)

I don't really get how ants would be a rebuttal to the idea of a selfish gene hypothesis, given that they are all birthed from the same queen, she would therefore be a close relative to them genetically speaking despite the queen herself surviving through hundreds of generations. If anything, it sounds like quite the opposite?

The music is making me emotional. So beautiful 🥺

Amazing! Regaring the superorganism status of ants, it seems that modern science might take inspiration from classical philosophy, especially Aristotle's definition of an organism/living thing/soul as something that nutrifies, grows, and reproduces. Combine this with modern cellular biology and evo-devo, we may have a paradigm shift on what we would consider as life.

@m_artist9657

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@stickiedmin6508

3 жыл бұрын

Watching the video, it struck me that an ant colony is kinda like a human body, if each individual cell of that body could separate and wander off on its own.

@existencemystery

Жыл бұрын

Green nature Juice, ocean Power, Seeable IDs, doctors having power, more music(please, please molested kids)like beats without annoying tick, and Spider-Man metal (Shelter, miracle) Either regular brown 50/ between white and black, or possibly 4 main colors

This channel should get more subscribers. Such a well researched content.

Yo i cannot grasp how amazing this channel is. You guys rock

I'm glad I found this channel, it's really interesting, plus your voice is perfect for narration! It reminds me of a female version of the guy that voices narration for Melodysheep (youtube channel). You both have the best narration voice I've probably ever heard.

You should cover the Cuttle Fish. And keep up the amazing work!

I just love the concept❤️

You are a gem. Thanks for doing what you do!

The fact the ants know to use Larve and could use the silk to stitch things together was genius on their part, look how good of a job and sturdy they stitched everything together.

Excellent video, ecologically well put together. The community interactions surely are based on individuals but the analogy of Ants behaving like a Superorganism can make significant changes in how we understand ecology😃

I've always been fascinated by nature. Nothing in this world fills me with as much awe. I grew to really appreciate these brilliant little girls from Ants Canada's videos.

Soy muy viejo, pero esto me hace ver este mundo pasajero aún más complicado pero también esperanzador. Gracias , es tan hermoso.

ive studied ants as a hobby since childhood and there was so much fresh info in this video its great. one question tho- regarding the theory that the more closely related genetically organisms are the more likely they are to help eachother, the narrator says ants do this even when not immediate family to fellow workers... but EVERY ant comes from the same queen, theyre literally all close kin... just seemed like an inconsistency.

You will get to million soon.

@Think_Inc

3 жыл бұрын

Hope so!

Thanks,thanks and thanks to Real science for this unique video

i usually hate background music in videos like this but this music really works and helps me enjoy the video

Realy gread video, Thank you so much for making this quality content

We want more videos on "The insane biology of" series

Great video, but for ant biology you should mention haplodiploidy and the ant's place within hymenoptera (their close relationship to wasps and bees)

@benmcanoy

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, because haplodiploidy underpins the idea of the superorganism.

@joseph8416

2 жыл бұрын

I had to scroll down a bit to find this, disappointed they didn't mention it the video. The annoying thing is Dawkins provides an explanation for ant 'superaltruism' via haplodiploidy too. They show his book but fail to mention the passage. Good video nonetheless.

@gogolometro235

3 ай бұрын

​@@benmcanoycould you elaborate on that?

omg , i love this channel AWESOME content , congratulations

Wow, this video is absolutely mind-blowing! The intricate biology and behaviors of ants are nothing short of incredible. It’s truly astonishing to see how these tiny creatures work together in such a highly organized manner. Watching this, I can’t help but marvel at the level of complexity in their instincts and behaviors. It’s almost as if there’s a master designer behind it all, carefully crafting the blueprint for these incredible creatures. This video certainly points to the existence of intelligent design by a creator.

1:36 Hate to break it to you, those ones look like termites to me...

There's this Webnovel "Chrysalis" and I couldn't stop thinking about it while watching this. For the Colony, Anthony!

Your videos are so well done

Really well written. Nice job. 👍

Great video!, a few things though, 0:37 and 1:35 are termites, also 3:09(maybe), 4:40 They seem to be based on nutrition in some cases but "insects and seeds" is a weird specification, most ant species don't even eat seeds and some don't eat insects.

@ant_keeper_richard3425

3 жыл бұрын

You sure theyre termites and not army ants?

@CMZneu

3 жыл бұрын

@@ant_keeper_richard3425 110% Sure, i know my ants.

Queen ants are just workers who have been given a more specialized diet which allows for the development of ovaries because of the fact that, during the course of evolution, the ancestral pre-ant began restricting its children's' diets in order to prevent them from developing said ovaries fully and to make them stay home and care for her and her growing family. She would then selectively allow other children to develop ovaries in order to spread her genes. It is not so much a "special kind of egg". This process is called parental manipulation. Extreme polymorphism such as in the case of leafcutter ants is exceedingly rare due to the amount of work it takes to make allometric growth work properly which allows for more nonviable than viable forms to occur throughout time so most ant castes are formed based out of age. The younger they are, the less expendable they are, and so they stay closer to the queen and take care of the nest. As they age they become more expendable and move outward until the point that they become foragers. Many species of ants come together in groups of 3-7 to form colonies and many will continue this polygynous lifestyle after the colony founding stage; it's a common misconception that there is a single queen in every colony. However, polygyny is not found in more primitive species. The ants are not loyal to the queen and their altruism is done for a selfish means. Because they are forced into a lifestyle of infertility they have no means of spreading their genes directly but are capable of doing so indirectly by raising reproductive sisters whom they share 75% of their genes with as opposed to the 50% they share with their mother. In fact, the queen is subject to being pushed around by the colony's workers because of the fact that they do not serve her and because there is competition among both individuals and castes for decision-making. The reason ant colonies die following the death of the queen is the fact that no one is left to replenish the dying worker population and the production of queens takes a prolonged period of time which is longer than the colony has before it dies off. Queens are produced naturally only after an inflection point in population level is reached wherein return on investment in resources reaches a peak then stops peaking. Will edit as I keep watching.

incredible footage!

Could someone explain why she says that ant altruism does not line up with the selfish gene theory? If all the ants in the colony came from the same queen, then they all have the same genes right? So it makes sense that they are completely altruistic towards all the ants in the same colony, and hostile towards ants of other colonies. It seems to line up perfectly with the selfish gene theory.

@stambo1983

2 жыл бұрын

I thought the same.

@yuxizheng8781

9 ай бұрын

The video already mentions that this lines up with the selfish gene theory at the level of super-organism but not at the individual mobile ant level.

Really pretty music in this video. EDIT: Just read video description, sound credit goes to Graham Haerther.

This is so amazing and meaningful....Thank you guys!

This channel is actually so good.

Those folding leaves ants surprised me, guess you'll never stop learning :D

Imagine the level of detail in work humans could achieve if we used chemical systems to take control of ants.

There is so much inteligence in this world, it just operates on different time scales and with different goals.

every time I watch a video u make I literally thank myself for subbing to your channel

Beautiful video about nature's OG communists ;) I admire how you're able to do these in-depth dive essays about such a broad range of subjects! Though, in the case of ants, I wish you would have discussed their intelligence a little more... Me and a friend of mine have been debating that for years at this point.

Dawkins explains ant Altruism in the book The Selfish Gene, just so everyone knows.

love science!!!! ty for content

Stunning, thank you

I'm just as excited to watch the new real science as I am real engineering. Keep it up!

I think I love ants now

The music is making me emotional. So beautiful

what a beautiful video thanks for sharing, I really appreciate it

It's an interesting sensation. Feeling so uncomfortable and so awestruck at the same time.