How Ant Colonies Get Things Done

[misssarahmaxine]

Deborah was quite disappointed by the fast film.

[TheMarkoanton]

ants live in socialist regime... who would've thought

[Biddymc]

Some really stupid questions were being asked??

[chicotecaivancruz]

okokok

[indianajones703]

there was an anuall mating i guess outside my house 2 years ago, a bunch of ants fell from the tree and were together. most had wings.

[haszczyc]

this is google. wtf film is moving fast!?

[sobes55]

stale

[Niactz]

Very, very interesting video! Watched all of it :D

lol you can see she's not a great orator...But I think no one care. Her work and knowledge is very respectable :)

[phuckingkunt]

@Niactz i watched ed wilson and holldobler doing a google author talk they spend more time stuttering than talking about ants. Holldobler also has videos, well he calls them videos, just slide shows like timelapse. Then the questions come and some dude nearly destroyed the universe trying to ask a question about acknowledging the evolution of ants "society" does it give us evidence for an evolution of human cultures and societies

[Niactz]

@phuckingkunt lol. Yeah, okay I found it.....

Maybe this women is a great orator after all :D

[Someone2knoe]

ants are so interesting to me, I can't believe I watched all of this haha

[gtariman03]

DAMN! 1:05:10? WTF? How did you live your life? NICE NICE

[BeNotMoved]

Bravo, thank you for freely sharing your hard-earned knowledge.

[thinkwithportal]

are there any more informational documentaries about ants?

[squathousepassout]

ants are the true vision of perfect true communism

[kingleo4ever]

Ant porn

[londonlad777]

so what you trying to tell me??

[jeffreystringer]

douchy question at 53:10

[300istilmig]

I really dont like social bugs! why do almost all social bug races males die after having sex, example "bees" total suicide bugs! if they sting something big death by ripping of their back body, sex males die by ripping of their hmmm? dont really know if bee males got tiny dicks but they rip whatever they have of and die :(

[ananiasacts]

It seems like there ought to be a way to develop an automated recognition system that could very accurately track the flow of each individual ant into an out of the nest and what they were up to. It looks like it would save a lot of "horseflesh."

[SalsaTiger83]

"some mechanism that makes the patrolers come back less often" is usually death, isn't it?

[ScrewAttackChina]

So, Googles interest in Ants is to reproduce their behavior into their employees? I often question Googles "do no evil" policy.. See Chrome

[ScrewAttackChina]

Zinger at 1:20 "Rabbit not an ant" ! haha, hilarious

[ZukoFireBook]

holy fuck 1 hour 5 min long ...byeee

[UnknownRex]

@ZukoFireBook real science is not for the feeble minded, so its no loss :)

[ZukoFireBook]

@UnknownRex yeah but too long for a small distraction for school the other day with an assignment

[ZukoFireBook]

@nmolonia nah I don't have a short attention span nor am I feeble minded like that one jerk said. I had an assignment the day after that and I was taking a break by looking at a few videos but this one was too long for my break. I was looking for something interesting that would go for like 15 minutes.

[MrJohn101c]

Proverbs 6:6-8 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.

[JamaicaDancehallTV]

Cool vid, wish I learned how to get rid of ants tho.

[dwaynes90]

Very interesting research. Excellent video. Now I have so many questions about ants. Thanks.

[TheRealBeeQue]

so what do foragers do again?

[numberman52]

4:05 DOUBLE PENETRATION

[CelticKraut]

@numberman52 l mao

[MultiUniv3rsal]

Fascinating, so much to learn about or world still.

[badboy12380]

AWSOME VIDEO!! I REALLY LIKED IT

[Karpuscul]

As an answer for the question about ants not foraging at night: my guess there will be no difference in temperature -> ants won't be able to tell the difference between foragers and inner workers.

[CosmicGrooves]

HAHAHA!! She needs to work on her beginning. The "I study ants because..." just does not work. Makes me totally not interested.

[UnknownRex]

@CosmicGrooves because she herself is important for the facts, right? Come on, are you this shallow, or just a troll?

[ScrewAttackChina]

@CosmicGrooves Agreed. She should open with a joke. "A Priest walks into a bar..."

[Origin305]

I think that many times theres more than one queen in the nest. I have captured several queen ants and put them all in the ant farm and they started a new colony together. Thers was actually 7 queens total in the same enclosed chamber.

[xexorz]

Really excellent video - thank you for sharing this.

[gunnerpig]

so if i don't have a queen ant in my ant farm they'll not live very long? or will one of them turn into a queen?

[santodonacimento]

please explain how queens reproduce and spread out

[emptyangel]

For a short period each year, colonies produce both winged male and winged females.

They then spread out to mate and found a new colony.

[UnknownRex]

@santodonacimento she did... drones (males) and virgin queens fly out, meet others, start new colony.

[naturalCK]

remarkable evolution such that simple instinctual behaviours are so-well optimized given genetic resources avaible; consequently, they can be great examples extrapolated to larger systems

[naturalCK]

Firstly, Civs4, it would be incredibly difficult to truly determine the experiential recognition of one ant by another. Also, it has been demonstrated many times that size/age of worker determines their work or caste (actually read some Hymenopteran journals/articles???). Her evidence of differing pheromone concentrations on worker type does actually imply differential classification.

The fact that they may not have any capacity for forethought (that actually would need more study) shows

[Bryannaclub]

whoah girl don't let your mouth drop off!

[CivysCare4Soldiers2]

Scientists play an important role in analysing the natural world but sometimes declare theories that are later disproven by themselves or other scientists.

So this video shows a scientist forming scientific theories based on observations, these theories can change later based on new observations.

Sometimes human activities can influence scientific observations.

So this scientist is providing a valid observation of insect phenomena in order to form theories based on peer review evaluation.

[CivysCare4Soldiers2]

These small insect species have to be protected so they can build nests using materials in natural woodlands. Larger brained species are dependant on the smaller species for survival in the food chain. But we never really take notice of these delicate food chains, we just look at the indivual animals and not the relations between species so much.

[CivysCare4Soldiers2]

This is nonsense, just looks like they patched together some pictures of ants sweeping etc.

From what ive seen ants behaviour is necessary they have no contingent words like garbage or patroling. She is projecting onto them concepts that have nothing to do with ants.

She provides no evidence that one ant is classified by other ants as a patroler or food collector.

There is no forward planned task of an ant, it has to move & act depending on neccesity to act depending on its tiny situation.

[antdude]

Ants FTW!! :)

[xxabulletxx]

bout time they figure how they communicate..

[Malicorian]

this ladies off; when army ants go into the peremeter of carpenter ants, they often have a ceasefire and im sure its managed by the queen. there is a video on this

[SmallVids]

I am fairly certain she knows more about it than you.

[Malicorian]

your nothing, and your certainty holds about as much weight as the opinion of one of these ants

[farteater4]

Easy there expert, this lady has devoted her entire life to the study of ants. To put it simply, YOUR certainty holds as much weight as that of an ant; compared to hers.

[WarVideo]

dont insult the ants.

[hymnofashes]

Wow.

Your anti-intellectualism makes you kind of cool and badass. I bet if you kept hitting your skull against the hood of a Hummer you would win.

[dollaresque]

5☆5☆5☆5☆5☆tars

[superninja0124]

Damn,How Long Did It Take To Upload This

[spidfire]

it are google servers so it could be a second of 2

[superninja0124]

Realy,it takes me 25 min. to upload a 10 min.

videos

[dollaresque]

Well they own YouTube so there is a chance they get stuff uploaded quicker :)

[Nielsio]

One thing she mentioned is how she was a bit surprised that ants never do something with complete 'determinancy'. But this might well be an advantage instead of a downside (similar, although on a completely different scale, to how variance is built into reproduction/evolution).

The big part of 'buffer' ants was really surprising to me, and what she mentioned at the very end about functioning against run-away effects sparked my interest.

[yufeizhou]

this reminds me a book i once read... i forgot the name of it, but it's connected with the idea of nano particles and AI