Foraging(Siafu) ants hunt snail

[CookyMonzta]

Oh, yeah! I'm not surprised by the way they killed that snail. A few will sacrifice themselves so that more will come to finish it off. It took a while but in the end they carted off pieces of that snail to feed the nest. On the Science Channel, they stripped a live chicken to the bare bones in one night.

[ThatOneAussie]

I swear to god I feel something on my leg...

[sobeazt]

why must is be in german?

[blackout3133]

gross.. you can hear them crawling

[majorcinnamonbun]

they should take tips from the French, they can eat snails without getting stuck.

[LotusLeaf88]

2:24 - "Medic !"

[XTrevvion]

thats not a snail! its a giant cum blob. alrite, that explains the stickiness

[rosheems]

the ants are putting the venom in the snail

[killaguy555]

nothing a vaccum cleaner can't handle :p

[tonyt0ny]

Oh my GOOOD

[TheUndefinedTw0]

lol slime tactics.

[yes4roblox]

*imma*

[yes4roblox]

1:42 the driver ant soldier is like"HELP I need to be revived!" then another ant is like "wait imam save you!"

[mitermaster]

This narrator guy makes German language sound so awesome. Love it!!

[NIDORAX]

that's a slug

[n1nak1tty]

I feel bad for both the ants that got stuck and the snail that was killed.

[hellraiza81]

I would have thought all of them would have drowned, suffocated or whatever from being covered in all of that snail slime. lol

[VisionofOrion]

truley ingenuious. They cant penetrate the slime so the ants use dirt to absorb the slime.

[theSWclan]

forget about zombies.. we need to worry about ants.

[CorrieKilgannon]

eeeek D:

[loltrademe]

u saw that giant ant there were a few at like :50-:58

[Secregor]

:20 is a bug orgy

[warfare1945]

german????

[teedeeiss]

@warfare1945 - yep, that's German alright. Wow, these ants live & work like perfect German PRECISION clockwork. 6:25 pm Sept.19 2010

[jibblejubs]

This makes me hungry

[Tharpe09]

I saw these in Ethiopia, you wouldn't believe how hard they bite onto things, one got trodden on while I was there and it grappled its pincers to the carpet and wouldn't let go-even though someone who was scared of it was stamping on it in fear, they must have stamped on it 20 times and it was still alive and holding on. poor thing.

[psychotikpaisano]

and a random big ass ant

[becauseimhi420]

they doomed themselves when they killed it

[WDDWPolska]

wow

[extremewalk]

ants are incredible well organized animals on the planet, no doubt about it

[callumdude10]

snail is fucked man ouch

[RickRaptor105]

Those ants are really genious!

Covering the slug with dirt to absorb its protecting poisonous slime.

[NiNjAxLe3]

Yum~!!! :)

[drupleful]

I love this video but i can't understand the narrato T_T

[chrisgun123]

Aww poor ants getting stuck :(.

[solitajre222]

im itchy now...

[PikminInvader]

same =(

[F0Rccyay]

@solitajre222

thanks now im itchy

[solitajre222]

@F0Rccyay =P

[opp861]

@solitajre222 i know i got ear phones on and i feel like their in my ear........

[ColonelMarksman]

(I posted a rough English translation in another post). The Driver Ants are actually NOT an Army ant. Army ants # in 1-3 million, spread over the landscape, and have rough-permanent homes. Driver ants # 10 million, have no eyes, and move in organized columns that confuse animals into their ranks by moving in a zig-zag pattern.

[kirkenbunken]

This is a real good video but I had trouble understanding the narrator.

[ColonelMarksman]

The African Driver ants. 0:25, the snail tries to escape by dropping to the African floor, 0:46 but it falls from the frying pan... and into the fire. To defend itself, the slug excretes a mucus around itself. Within seconds, it is covered and it's impossible for them to get to the flesh. 3:00 the ants have a creative way to deal with the slime: by absorbing it with particles of dirt. With the enzymes used up, the ants cut away at the flesh. (rough memory from English version)

[AlabamaAxeman]

"Escargo anyone?"

[padude64]

Siafu are killer ants! They will kill an elephant by crawling into its trunk!

[SkylineXZ]

@padude64 They kill a Crab by cutting through soft tissue(The Arms)Then the little ants just crawl in...crab be dead in 2 minutes..no1 knows what they do O_O

[Alfordsville]

never knew a snail had a defense tactic. I did manage to pick out some of the guys sentences.

[dukeisthemaster]

yes army ants do

[Myrules92]

Tat snail just got superpwnd.

[ILOVESUBLIME222]

german

[thEsPamer106]

i remember these guys radiated, mutated, children from fallout 3! there so cute!

[AJM212006]

i wish i understood what this guy was saying

[trilobites4truth]

Siafu are cool... The only insects capable of devouring an human being... They are the real kings of the jungle. PS. It's not disgusting, but just nature at action.

[basilisk678]

army ants do this too, right?

[trilobites4truth]

What species of army ant you mean? Because siafu (or driver ants) are a species of old world army ants.

[basilisk678]

I thought there was only one type of army ant! lol my mistake. I thought that they acted like them, i should of put 2 and 2 together lol

[skienc]

this is cool.

btw i dare someone to eat something after this lol

[praetorian2150]

eating a chicken and bacon hotpocket wathing this lol

[Ninja5aif]

rofl i ate some crips

[mightycowhero]

escargot entree.

[wakeupfist]

Königin!

[TheJVCHeadphoneGirl]

Amazing creatures 8D

[JFiannaca]

wow i hate bugs

[ThePurpleClan]

I bet they killed the camraman after the snail

[mepou]

lol

[budgerigarsfriend]

these ants could eat anything, even their predators can be their prey

[Kijiro]

They cover the snail in dirt, which absorbs the mucous. Once the outer coating protecting the snail/slug is gone, they attack.

[Aromatryc]

ummm... snails have shells, that's a slug. Close though, they're both mollusks.

[kenshinshinta8978]

mmm, it seems as though they were unable to get the snalil. brillant defence

[veale728]

I for one welcome our new insect overlords

[Wullif5]

lol

[zacharymullin]

@veale728

these are the times I am grateful I live in northern canada, too cold for these badasses.