"An Ant as a Bridge for Other Ants"

[glenlorn]

Yes, Felipe, ART leads us to seeing, really seeing. One gets a hint of this if he humbles himself before the Master Creator whose creations were first in Him - - say the transformation of a butterfly from a caterpillar, i.e.- we can get a hint of how and what the Creator is through his creations, and, perhaps, what He expects from us.

[hsaaam24]

I prefer animals more than people in these days we eat each other and we kill each other with out any real causes

[sapfron]

It sucks that there is an ad for Orkin for this video.

[VittorioLecce]

who knows the music on this video?

[glenlorn]

Music: "Illusions" Chick Corea Elektric Band

[VittorioLecce]

thanks.

[Imilko]

I believe that an ant colony is 1 animal/creature and the single ants are small parts of 1 big body otherwise each ant for show more concern for itself they only seem to care about their own fate as it will affect the colony as a whole a bit like the human body only not covered in flesh and bone and less to it i suppose you could say the ant nest is like there covering not exactly the same i know but it makes me think about things like if you lose blood so many cells/ants heh dead but we live on

[Mak123451]

they survive by working together thats why people av doubts of how long we will last

if we worked together well

We Will Survive!!

[PowerQuebecois]

an ant is like a body cell to us. and our cells do work together ;) they are so many that a whole colony can be considered as a one.

[L3ft2D13]

that poor 1 ant who is holding it up all that time someone else could at least help the poor fella

[comandermalander456]

u just saw fire ants at work

[zxcvbnmlp0987654321]

These are beautiful ants. Does anyone know what species they are?

[PPKLU]

Philippine red ants

[wouter1988]

*PTOING*

[xxloulou13xx]

Maybe he's just stuck :-D

In response to BenjaminBattington.. the same could be said for humans!

[Gesmehod]

It's amazing that creatures with such tiny brains can perform such complex and effective strategies. Makes you wonder how many actual unknown situations they are already pre-prepared for at any given moment.

[Michel0Peters]

The answer is that simple rules in the ants brain can cope with many a like problems. Nest building, searching for food and so on all are more effective when you have a shorter route. The shorter route is found because of the evaporation of the pheromone trail of the ants. A long trail will evaporate faster and ants will not follow it. Short path will exist longer and more ants will follow it and reinforce the chemicals. The ant only follows the chemical and sprays :)

[godsadog]

Yes.

But I doubt it is that simple.

There is much more behind their collective intellect than we know.

[gixxer450]

this is pretty amazing. I cant figure it out, its like the ants have an ability to think, or maybe they just have all these teamwork charateristics in thier intinct. It just so dam perfect the way they instinctively do all the things they do.

[Thulgore]

I could be wrong about all of this, but I swear I remember reading that ants have the largest brains of all insects, brain power of a collective colony roughly equivalent to your average home computer circa 1990. Also that supposedly if you were to add all the brain mass of a large colony it would roughly match a human. (like I said not sure on this, just swear I read it in a science magazine) Ants are absolutely amazing, I don't know why their aren't more documentaries on them. =(

[CrandyBevins]

Wow, I can not disagree more! I have ants crawling over my keyboard right now, and they are NO match against the 90 lbs of my "1990" computer. Potential energy of my computer held above 4 nanometers would CRUSH/ANNIHIHIALTE/DESTROY an ANT HIVE. so no ants no win no life ant off

[Kurushimus]

an entire ant hive?

i seriously doubt this.

they are prepared to deal with a variety of hostile environments to protect their queen.

[BenjaminBattington]

From an evolutionary point of view, those instinctive behaviours that improved colony survival even slightly would have been retained.

Over a long enough period of time, you can see how the colony dynamic would have been honed and improved until they become feats of seemingly otherwordly intelligence.

However, these behaviours are almost certainly instinctive, incredible as they may be.

[footyspoak]

my fav parts at 5:16

[drodope]

they look like they give eachother high fives... so the question is does everything have an intellegent soul?

[glenlorn]

drodope, a preacher once told me that only humans have souls since they have been made in the image of God.

[drodope]

well what do you think god would tell you. thanks for your answer i guess i did ask a question

[glenlorn]

he he, i don't really know . . like d ants, God, supposedly, merely created us both, but i tend to believe my preacher friend. whoever created me, i would be under his grace and mercy and i have nothing to be proud of, i guess. d creator always has d option to destroy his creation.

[utahjai]

What a self assigned shit job, that is why human are much smarter.

Relax, I was just joking. We can learn from the ants.

[glenlorn]

ha ha . . sure we can, tnx.

[catturkey]

the music is making me hot

[vwr0527]

Really makes you contemplate the meaning and significance, and origins of altruism

[VASFSRFEFDGs]

lol world of goo.

[glenlorn]

VASFSRFEFDGs, young talent you are! Keep makin' those animations even for your own sake to bring out the creative juice in you. The key is in your hand from d great Creator who trusted you with a gift. Make use of your talent for God's glory. God bless.

[VASFSRFEFDGs]

Wow, thanks!

[RealKingBacklash]

a little over-timed for that one event, but cool nonetheless

[glenlorn]

it's deliberate . . to test d viewers' patience for d ants did it and humans have only to watch. thanks.

[CuxBeatThemAll]

"Honey how was work today?"

"Great.I was a bridge."

[nevermind179]

thanks glenlorn...

[glenlorn]

hi nevermind179, thanks too for viewing . .

[xxabulletxx]

those ants look golden coloured..what kind of ants are those?

[jspic32]

a beast of an ant holds up giant stick vertically for bridge while i play unfitting and awesome music, lol, RADICAL!

i faved

[Gigantiops]

Hallo,

seems like you forget to mention that this pulling behaviour is exactly what these ants use to rip apart colony strange conspecific ants. They are not exactly hurt by holding, on, but a lot more by being pulled apart! Is this vicious behaviour they use to kill prey every day also received directly from their creator?

[glenlorn]

hi gigantiops, the creator and the created both display what is inherent in them but only the creator can destroy his creation and not the other way around . . remember what happened to the Amorites?. . the stream cannot be higher than its source.

[DrAtHaLoS]

yah well ill still kill the ones in my house,.

[ronrick06]

Today, I have been schooled. Absolutely amazing!  Proverbs 6:6-8 (New Century Version) did say "Go watch the ants, you lazy person. Watch what they do and be wise. Ants have no commander, no leader or ruler, but they store up food in the summer and gather their supplies at harvest.

[glenlorn]

Thanks Ronrick, yes . . and it takes humility for one to learn from ants who seem to be less than the humans but who make more sense in many ways, as you and the Bible have mentioned. Will soon get to your site to view the sole video featured there about the smile of a black woman.

[blaz395]

ronrick they have a leader its theyr queen

[gvwolf]

come on you bastards i cant hold this leaf for much longer.....ugh why i do i get the shit jobs lol

[javoman13]

nice video.

[yukkachrist]

ants are cool!

[killersleep17700]

hey whats the name of the documentory?

[Chzrm3]

It's really fascinating how he knows to do that.

[Memo574]

WOW

[Noah341]

Is that the Chick Corea Elektric Band playing?

[SharelleFrancis]

mad props to that ant!

[TamarJC]

glenlorn, thx for this vid. It required amazing patience and stamina for you to film this not to mention that of the ants!!! Reading through the comments, I realized that there are two kinds of people, one which CAN emphasize with an ant, and one which CANNOT. I wonder if it is nature or nurture that is responsible for the difference in these two levels of compassion? FYI, fortunately I am among the ones who CAN feel empathy for an ant! Thanks for sharing, glenlorn.

[Yadaime]

i hate ants.

[blackeagles12345]

ah! watch the eye!

Hey man, i know we're in a hurry but you don't have to step on my face...

OUCH! i think i'm blind now. thanks.

oh, sure, use my body as your mud mat. you filthy dog you.

[nextel888]

that bridge ant wasn't act as a bridge, he is just something wrong on his detector and though that leave was an enemy thats why he bite it till the end. Im sure.

[lizardman8512]

im pretty sure there one day out there that insects will be the dominant species i mean there getter to be so smart and becoming so large in population something will happen.

[jarrett2005x]

Was that a tooth at the end?

[naxalyte]

This is very creative behaviour for an ant. Is this intelligence or stigmergy?

[eatmyplum]

naxalyte, this just normal behaviour for ants

[glenlorn]

yup, normal for ants but extremely sacrificial if performed by humans . . just a thought

[eatmyplum]

glenlorn, most humans are facists who beleive because ana naimal or insect is differetn to them that theyare worth less then they are. I dont think Id ever meet any one who would do this, ants have more courage than humans by the looks of it.

[glenlorn]

yes, eatmyplum . . I agree. when an insect like an ant is stepped on or killed, it is really nothing to us humans but when one of our kind is murdered we make a big deal out of it.

[georgio101]

what an odd thing to say

[DaStyle1990]

it's because, we got a well evolved brain, that allows us to do things, that ants never will become able to think about...

[110Zwolle]

sukkelmier

[kuapo]

Ants don't have the burden that is ego.

That's why they get things done by teamwork.

[glenlorn]

yes kuapo, you hit the nail on the head. you represent a generation that somehow understands.

[XxsousukesasukexX]

If only humans can build a bridge out of their bodies...hmmm

[glenlorn]

We all can, but some refuse to see it the ants' way.. tnx

[mrmayo101]

but uhh we can build brdges so y would we make a human bridge?

[ToyGaurd]

I would have just dropped it and let the other ants find another another way around. He was waving his arms around in the middle. It Looked like he was either straining to hold it up, or motioning other ants to hurry up and use the bridge.

[glenlorn]

yup . .

[qcpat]

Fascinating

[drummermylo]

Is this Dave Weckl?

[glenlorn]

Sorry to disappoint you guys, it's Chick Corea's "Illusions", tnx anyway for guessing.

[drummermylo]

This sounds like Dave Weckl on drums. Is it?

[thekingofgingers]

Cool video and just gotta say, i love the music

[defdogg]

Once the ant was exhausted I'd assume they'd cart it back to the nest to be "recycled".

Think it's a bit naive to say "a bigger ant took it away for a rest"

[huzunkusuben]

thanks... :)

[XT1870]

ants, no leaders or rulers and yet they gather and build for the benefit of the whole, and humans with all our intelligence can't do this

[cookiemonster52]

That's exactly what I thought when I saw this.

[xSOADxFREAKx]

you have "despite their mimimal sterngth" but the matter of fact is that ants are one of the strongest animals in the world .. they can lift something of 100 times their body weight .. tell me can an elephant or rhino do that ??

[glenlorn]

that's good to know . . thanks for the info.

[tiribombax]

a ant cant lift 50 times their body weight not 100

[baolinh111]

it is the law of nature, (science), the bigger the object, the more nature force will fuk u up. If this ant is super size to elephant's size, its strength would greatly reduced. Btw, i think beetles are the strongest of them all (power to weight ratio), it could move something 1000 times heavier than its weight

[AttilaKattila]

well tiribombax, we may not know for sure, besides theres more than just one ant species.

And yes i agree with the law of nature thing, its true.. so basicly its; the bigger, the badder and higher at the food chain, but its still getting heavier and heavier the bigger u are and too much is too much and whats too much is whats too weak to survive in nature and what doesnt stay in the picture..,

[AttilaKattila]

Also if u look at insects.., they move and perform stuff at a very fast rate and longer than bigger animals, and when u move to bigger animals.. birds they still move their head around as fast as we move our eyes and are pretty fast moving and all, then some small mammals and other stuff eventually when we talk about bigger animals like elephants theyre definitely slower and more calm and prolly last less in stressing their body..

[AttilaKattila]

Also it depends what the bodies are made for, but yea, its the law of nature... And about the beetle thing.. I once watched some document on discovery about the strongest animals (alive?).. and there was this little beetle-like bug called rhinoceros beetle or something on the first place and it could lift up to 850 times its own body weight which is the same as if a man lift a 50-ton tank

[despeanut86]

i wonder if the bridge ant was tickled by the other ants.. :)

[glenlorn]

ha ha, from my camera, i didn't see any reaction except that i know it finally got so exhausted that it had to be brought home by a bigger ant while another ant took its place. I guess, only the bridge ant would know.

[PlaysTheDrumsToo]

HOLY CRAP THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING IVE EVER SEEN!!! HOLY JEEZ.

ima go eat some pudding now.

[Lalakins2]

nice patience:)

[Britt3333]

hey, what kind of ants are these anyways? they're pretty territorial, or i'm not sure if that's even the right word for it. unless they're opening their jaws for some other reason... any ways. yea... any kind of answer will do.

[glenlorn]

if you read the other comments, experts on ants refer to them as weaver ants. I really don't know anything about ants except that I like shooting macro video on them. I also guess that they are really blind despite the big black ellipse eyes. They can only sense.

[Britt3333]

that's cool.

[oogolixoo]

I have these as pets, they are very territorial and have good eye sight for ants, I can wave my hand side to side from about 2 feet away and they all stand straight with their jaws open, swinging side to side as they follow my hand.

[glenlorn]

got to your videos and enjoyed viewing your pet-ants. I'm sure you are learning a lot about them as well as how they interact with things around them .. what do they normally like to eat, like the weavers? i noticed your weaver videos were in the process of making their home w/ leaves, other ants do likewise?

[oogolixoo]

Generally only weaver ants use leaves to build a home but I'm sure some ants have other uses for leaves too. The weaver ants have so far eaten anything given to them :D

Waxworms, flies crickets etc...

[glenlorn]

u said it, there was a time when this ficus tree habitated by these ants lost all its leaves except the ants' habitat made of folded & seemingly glued leaves . . d tree looked like a totally different tree.

[AmyK007]

God, they are amazing creatures.

[Pickelate]

loooool

I've never seen them act like that, was there like, a bowl of sugar or a queen ant at the top or something?

[glenlorn]

just a daily routine from food source to home, i guess following the guidelines of the queen ant. This was not their normal route, just so happen there was a tiny twig that broke hardly reaching the fence rail that they needed an ant to serve as a bridge. I am not an authority on ants, just guessing. tnx 4 d comment. Am shooting 'em bigger now w/ an improvised lens from my old enlarger, anybody can do this.

[JonMW2]

The queen doesn't give any orders. She just makes more ants.

[glenlorn]

thanks JonMW2, I stand corrected. BTW, who then gives the orders?

[JonMW2]

There's no smart, or thinking ant - an ant nest is a great example for a self-organising swarm structure. Each ant just follows its own relatively simple system of rules, and somehow everything works out.

I'm trying to find a certain relevant edition of National Geographic where they talked about this, but I can't find it.

[glenlorn]

i wonder how they got to know that, intuition, experimentation, research or just a wild guess?

[glenlorn]

tnx anyway . . i'm really learning from all d comments. i only did a chance video shoot of these ants w/o knowing anything about them.

[schwene2]

i was more surprised to hear you used that song from beneath the mask. i love elektric band ^^

[wolfsrainlvr]

working together like humans need 2 do :P

[mjufpn]

its an antic structure.

[shakenwolf]

h8 de music

[Obbyto]

I love ants! Their spirit of adaptability and team working is beyond words!

[glenlorn]

i can't agree more . . tnx

[farcryh]

this is cool

[donghyunwon610]

really hard workers! now we need people like taht

[glenlorn]

yup . .

[SocietysNitemare]

i know that bridge ant was thinkin..."get ur ass out my face!!"...while those other ants were climbin over him.

[glenlorn]

ha ha . .

[sweetinnocentnothing]

so amazing. i love documentaries on insects & animals & sea creatures(:

[genx1973]

along with bees and termites.

[stromonie]

dude ants are actually pound for pound some of the strongest animals on the earth!

[ChronoVIEW]

Theres a midget that can lift 4x his own body weight, so the smaller you are blah blah blah..

[sh3l1]

it's not being smaller that allows you to lift a greater percentage of your body weight, it's your mass.

[XIPM3]

nothing a mantis couldnt handle.

[P8R8M3D1C]

dear:glenlorn

i think that this is a alsum show for insects even for me as i studie the insect type it is really scientificish in any other way i think that it is really cool music matchs and it also shows that they are working as team and not many other people you notice as a team and it is now so hard to find out why ants attack humans and or why do ants communicate by making a bridge what express that feeling fo them to allow themselfs to do it in a mannered way

[rffan94]

They look like weaver ants.

[willd0g]

it seems as tho the ants could have just reached the ground or the twig above ?

[glenlorn]

w/o the ant biting the twig and acting as a bridge, the twig would have just wiggled to and fro because of the wind making it impossible for the other ants to cross.. two ants took turns for an hour that i videod them until they petrified.

[stonnedwarrior]

horrible is who doesnt know how to apreciate the beauty, perfection n knowlege of nature.Beautiful video

[yowzanator]

Please let me know who did the music. Artist and song, if possible! Thank you!

[jonttuliini]

i fear ants very much!! !! !! they are horrible!

[potsnacher]

did u know that if ants were the size of humans they wud b the superior beings on the planet thats y u c all those movies about ants attacking humans

[brido88]

It's an inferior arguement. Due to an ants structure, it would be impossible, physically impossible for it to survive being our size. So, what makes it a dominant species on the ground would ultimately be it's doom, should it be upscaled. Much in the same way you could never physically have a 30ft Gorilla.

[Khomboo]

I agree with this to a level.

Yeah, it -would- be impossible to have ants that big. Living at that massive weight would probbaly crush you from the inside out. Plus not to mention food sources and other considerations.

But I think the point is that if the ants -could- survive at such a big size, they truly would be superior. In the sense of superiority and intelligence, these guys take the cake, but their tiny size is what makes them so puny in reality.

[sexrex721]

the ants are one of the most formidable insects in the world, thanks for this video

[glenlorn]

tnx too for watchin'

[antdude]

Also, these are weaver species.

[antdude]

Ants rule.

[yragyrag90]

Ok, we could all learn alot from ants?? why dont they jump? hang, then drop?

who is the music by? sounds slightly like al dimeola?

[G33KSPALACEdotCOM]

Some species can jump, most ants cant jump because isn't built for that purpose. Anyway nice vid man!!!

[funnybeagle]

Ant's are so powerful!

[rubixcubes]

They look like they're made out of pure gold ^.^

Sept for the eyes :P

[whybeass24324]

Those are3 some Weaver ants By the name of "Oecophylla smaragdina" They are very cool although i dont have this species myself i have some leaf cutter ants called acromyrmex spec. my nightaktiv ants camponotus spec. and my own weaver ants polrachis dives then my messor barbarus(harvesteros) and my pheidole pallidula.

[glenlorn]

wow, u sure know much about ants . . tnx4dComment . .

[nejex461]

Yeah dont remember my comment = / but re these your Oecphylla smaragdina?

[glenlorn]

Hi Skrapper, it's good to hear from you, been bzzz, you know . . take care, keep in touch, regards to Paulnewson n' our other friends at Utube. Read my blog . . username: glenlorndave, at blogger, make comments, ok? Bye for now, my friend.

[Skrapper]

This really shows how sometimes a small animal like an ant can give some life lessons to us. Take care Glen, see you around ;)

[kreeyaytive]

amazing, thanks.

[Stella000]

Thanks for this video. They know single ant can't survive by itself, so the whole colony act like one creature. We could learn a lot from them, to share and to care more.

[glenlorn]

You are welcome, Stella. Thanks too for taking time to respond and share your insight about ants. Take care.

[G33KSPALACEdotCOM]

In fact ants hasn't always been a social insect it's believed that in the mid-cretaceous period most ants were loners only taking care of them selfs

[glenlorn]

that's good to know . . thanks

[glenlorn]

Thank you, To2Ed, you are as perceptive and selfless as the two ants and their sympathizer ants. Still looking forward to seeing your S9100 Fujimacros.

[To2Ed]

Tol'... I believe there are so much moral values we could learn from these unique and beautiful creatures: selflessness, team-antship... role-playing, they are Nature's indefatigable hard workers. Your ant-ics are really paying off, Friend :-)