timelapse of ants eating a piece of ham.

[OVERWRONGTHOUSAND]

i have a army ant farm,and they ate an entire hamburger in 16 minuets and 24 seconds

[dancefreak1019]

There eating, but also getting tiny pieces and following the track back to the colonie :D

[THENOSAUR]

can I have more mustard?

[angelsite285O]

Dude.... Ants don't eat. They send the food to the queen ant.

[Mynameisnotooo]

@angelsite285O Ants do eat, otherwise they would die fairly quickly. It's just that they're so tiny that they only need to eat very little, and thus the majority of the food is sent to the colony to feed the queen and whatever ants tend to the colony.

[gangstervural]

bet these ants aren't jewish

[jjLadySparrowjj]

SPOILER-AT THE END HAM DIES :d

[TabulateJunk]

OMG at about 4:45 minutes into the the ants moke the pattern of HI that is awezome loloolololol.

[xXxelerate]

lol 1:25 that mantis Got raped lolloool

[jobs265]

pinchi mamada

[Takerst]

little Zergs ^^

[irishladcfc1]

its like the smaller the food gets, the more ants are there LOL

[kasesd123456789]

thats pretty lucky for a ant army!

[stickmanpwner64]

Ants: HAM!HAM!HAM!HAM!HAM!HAM!HAM!HA­M!HAM!

[iwillbd1234]

do the queens ever come out ? i want one for a ant farm...i think

[CuteLilKittyAngel]

I think there braking it and bring it it back to there hole but the others I think are eating

[TheWhatify]

ever feed a dead chicken to other chickens? its funny lol. fucking cannibals they are!

[prosperluong]

HAM FEST!

[Superfluffyfish]

OM NOM NOM

sorry just felt this video needed that :P

[JuStAnAsIaNboY]

buahaha

[OscarOnDaLoose]

feed them mcdonalds

they will probably die of ant obesity..

[OktoberStorm]

Thumb's up

[ownednerds]

4:45 thew pattern sais "hi."

[Kermit4Prezident]

The smell of the ants that ate the ham before attract them to the area long after the ham disappeared. xD

[BTreotch]

cool.. but it would have been cooler if it were 3:32 seconds

[wordock2]

I wonder what would happen if you dropped a large rock on them while eating?

[xZalex90]

they would eat it

[SmileyyGal]

XDDDDD

[SiimsCrystal]

Skuich XD

[chillz27]

what has this got 2 do with chaos theory?

[CaptainRuro]

Chaos theory says that you can find order in seemingly chaotic situations. A lot of people think of the Jurassic Park movie when they hear chaos theory. The book represents it much better. Anyway, this is order in a seemingly chaotic situation. It fits perfectly.

[chillz27]

i thought chaos theory was to do with the starting situation of a system havng a massive effect on how it develops over time

[CaptainRuro]

That's part of what chaos theory explains, it's popularly referred to as the butterfly effect. Chaos theory has a wider scope than just the butterfly effect.

[ironmadion55]

lol i know this sounds kinda disturbing but i have to say it.

imagine what would happen if you put poison on the ham. the ants would die right there and then and make a pile :D

[dom825]

GANG BANG

[jindivik321]

did you post on thottbot?

[kovalev27c]

i feel them in my hair!

[Chimpztheone]

probably need to wash your hair

[RealTrueTarget]

TEAMWORK! :D

[popopiepo]

yum ham

[macychick]

Disgusting yet fascinating at the same time!

[BFG43]

think if u were paralyzed and they did that to u.

[H41RB4LL]

haha,awesome

[imjustaguynamedfred]

lol

[eliasmoawad1]

i thought ants don't eat meat.. mmm... maybe it has changed nowadays, last time i saw normal small birds trying to eat a chicken bone

[MaxRideFan631girl]

I saw someone feed turkey to a duck before

lol

[stephenharperbest2]

i fed a beef steak to a cow before

[Jeku2323]

I LOVE YOU!

[stephenharperbest2]

the cow got some extra protein without getting sick

[Jurassicparkz08]

lmao

[neoman289151]

@stephenharperbest2 that...thats just wrong O.O

[stephenharperbest2]

i thought ants only ate sugar and plants

[BearTreeMan]

ants dont eat. only the queen does

[jeffersondong]

if only the queen eats how do the other ants obtain their nutrition?

[WhenCowsFly5]

those fatties...haha

[alternateshadow300]

hey u changed the name! awesome! i thought it was a shrimp at first.

[killshot16]

wow fat asses

[mrmo3244]

makes me itchy

[mrmo3244]

stfu

[espermatazoide]

i must say that after over 7 minutes i got bores -.-

[geocool7]

Play from 1:50, and look south east from the center. Poor little ant! It looks like it was a victim on the battlefield. Fortunately, some of its old friends visit its remains from time to time, too bad some are desturbing them. And it's not the only ant dying there. At the end there are 2 remains there.

[ps3fake23]

lol the ants r going to town on that ham! :D

[Rayden440]

a bit of work but it's rewarding!!

[ne0huang]

THATS TURKEY

[heverson46]

you should take this video least 5x faster.then it will look more cool that now...

[sudynim]

Hmm, anyone else hungry?

[lalanav921]

O.O

[pugcasso]

Ants are pure socialists .. .if this was a bunch of people around an over-turned beer truck, it would be every man for himself LOL ... not with ants ...they are bringing all of this back to the colony for the benefit of the general populcae. If ants developed an intelligent technologocal society, they would kick our ass!

[simontempler1091]

Very true. That was probably the majority of a colony out there on the meat.

[MePlease2211]

really true.... and compared to what they do in a day, a large colony could kill a human in like half a minute...hmmmm 20bilx30sec...600billion seconds...60 billion minutes... pwnage...ish....

[Fenrir28064212]

10 billion minutes.

[MePlease2211]

ohh yeah my bad, forgot how time works O_o

[pugcasso]

Is it my eyes or does it appear that some ants are staying there to break things apart and other ants are carriers ... taking things back to the colonies. I wonder if there is a specialization of work duties here. Ants are very amazing!

[jim9743]

damn sorry mate, meant to put it as a plus!!

[baywatchwannabe]

it looks like some died in the process...

[Pwningn00bs117]

juuuust like on indiana jones

[AceMgy]

Notice how the ants congregate around the places where the bigger pieces of ham they broke apart were; they can still smell it.

[cautionthisissparta]

nomnomnomnomnom

[kronakk]

For the horde!

[xXsHARONrANDOMxX]

how many days did this really take?

[mnfchen]

less than 1 day

[PrinceRak33m]

at the end when its in 3 peices it looks like a spider

[stripeyninga]

should have sped it up a bit more.

[neworleansrocks]

yeah, seven minutes is a little too long, but it is nice and detailed.

[gredangeo]

reminds me of a construction site, some are working while others are just walking aroud doing dick-all.

[PrinceRak33m]

ants always do something even the ones that are just walking they r all contributing one way or another, but i do agree with u on the construction thing tho

[ericwhyareyousocool]

my dumbass girlfriend said "oh my god those ants are killing that poor stingray"

bloody fool

[ilkkaaa]

disgusting!

[liltd87]

damn, they tore that ham up. And just think how much food we in the USA waste:/ I love nature!

[MonsterMashKiller]

why the hell does everyone say the USA wastes food, teaches our kids about sex, litters, affects the enviroment badly, etc. i can name 20 countries that are worse in all of those areas

[canuck131]

i'd like to see this

[MonsterMashKiller]

see what?

[darkouk]

Relax, I think he was just pointing out that in the USA you waste more food than ants, not that every country other than the USA doesn't waste food.

[MonsterMashKiller]

fine... *walks away pouting*

[zathusura78910]

fatass

[gryphmage]

Right on.

[MonsterMashKiller]

yep ;)

[jazzmessenger8]

If only we could get along as well as they do

[jlambertstl]

The reason for the patterns in their movement isn't entirely mathematical. They are following the scent trails left by other ants.

[turtledogg]

I did this same exact thing, except it was a dead bee instead of a ham.

[zeldaguy15]

:o

there dieing

its poisned

why u kill nature fool?

[legomationvids]

watch the right side at 1:18 and keep watching

[MonsterMashKiller]

what was that?

[KiahNicholee]

It was probably a torn off piece of ham. See how the sides are darker?

[domenic999]

it says in the bloody title!!

[MonsterMashKiller]

i see ants. i no see "waste food"

you have no point

me no dumb, you dumb.

[Rammstein133]

haaaaaaaaaaa

[mcjeb]

isnt nature efficient?

[cherrieez]

Ew, that's disgusting.

That happened to me once. I dropped a poptart in the driveway and then when I came back 30 minutes later it was COVERED with ants. But, I think I figured out a way to solve your ant problem. Just out out a piece of ham and poison it or spray them all. Maybe they'll stop coming.

LOL

[dexantiprejudist]

The pig that died for this video did a very honourable thing.

[laurenurq]

dude. get a life.

[jumpingmert]

they are working very hard!

[Evilfisher]

they chopp it into pieces and take it bake to the colony

[tatsulion]

aww...but they worked soo hard...

[trademark22]

You poisoned the ham, right?

They didn't see that one comeing.

[ryuarashi]

Theyre hard working

[celticrocker250]

ther like little ham chainsaws

[iliketowatchmovies11]

EWW!!! thats looks so nasty thousands of ant all moving EWW!!!

lol

[Skoolhata357]

i bet the ants were thinking..... YUMMY!

[aHistoryOfViolins]

i would beat them in slow-motion!

[Kzook]

look at them go!

[jaffro1987]

could have made it a bit faster..... 7 mins?

[The0Burger0King]

Them ants want to eat your pork.

[DuffyBox]

Uh oh.. here I come with a kettle!

[freddy659]

mmmmmmmmmmm ham

[emeraldxm]

What did they have for pudding?

[Jeronnex]

...do none of you know what happens to the ham?? "they eaten it all lol"...

they take it back to their ant-hill, for the queen...

(ofc they do also get some themselves, but most of it goes to the queen)

[Oremir]

Actually most of it goes to the larva ...

[Takanuva3000]

o_O near the end some patterns amade by the moving ants looked like stick fugures and spiders

[AJ78910]

lol ham

[teencherilyn]

i am never leaving food in my garden ever again!! :( :(

good video :D

[RSMissLovr]

Spray some ant repellant on the ham, watch em die, although it sounds mean, you can deal with ants teh easy way.

[Braves300]

Its funny some of those ants have different personalities.

[zoeymegmeg]

that wuz AWESOME!! do one w/, like, a spider!! ^__^

[mcmagicjr]

hahaha this was funny and weird

[groovyUtube]

I need a time lapse of your time lapse

[Becca238]

well that was...gross...  :

[aznkawaiii]

it looks lyk theyre playing tag

[KamakazieIdiot]

lolz its a great way to kill an infestation. lay ham down let them gather and bring out an impliment of your choice like a blowtorch or a sledgehammer

[djabie]

that was the most exciting 7 minutes of my life!

[djmarku]

lifes grand question: Chaos Theory (or an eaqually important theory) finally, a timelapse video worth watching! it really captures the essence of life. the great debate is finally over, what is our role in the universe..? watching ants eat ham!

[RonnielikesRealrock]

eew i hate ants

[eqrqt]

i could eat that piece of ham in a second, but i don't put it on youtube

[theempresshenry]

Dang! After 6:57 there starts being some mad scavengers coming back for 3rds, all greedy like they ain't had enough ham. Sss..

[GammelMannn]

they;re scavaging to make sure they finished it lol

[avery137]

rofl

[niki6th]

near the end why are the ants flying?

[cpj456]

They arent flying, just running around.

[thebizle]

this takes ages

[thebizle]

this takes ages

[Ephemerance]

If we were to look at this as a metaphor for the universe, perhaps the ants would be like physical matter, and the ham like dark matter. think about it.

[avery137]

not really. -.-

But I do know what dark matter is, like 98% of the universe is missing... etc

[Ephemerance]

avery137 you're an idiot

[gnosis4700]

wow really awesome. if you notice some of the ants had to fight for the food. some ants lay dead around the ham. cool.

[zoeymegmeg]

i think they got full and keeled over cuz they ate 2 much! ^_^ XDD

[The1stPoster]

OMG ham, i liek ham.

Ham.

[neon9999]

Nice. You could make another video but skipping more frames so that it lasts 30 seconds or so, would be more impressive.

[GhostOfLagg]

"Ham?" "no ham" "ham?" x infinity

[mooturtles]

its interesting how at around 1:45 they try to carry a huge peice away but then they just decide to eat it right there[:

[sansjuhh]

I feel a very strong urge to squash those ants under my foot. But it's quite cool to watch.

[bretzky994]

gA.

[ShaolinSKunk]

"woah dude, is this ham? It is ham! Hey guys we got ham over here!" "Ham? no way!" "ham?" "Ham! dudes! Ham dudes!" "Aw sweet ham!" "Ham?" "ham" "HAM!!" "has anyone seen my dog? guys? no?... I'll keep looking" "ham, i loves me some ham""gimme some of that ham" "Hey I saw your dog" "really? where'd he go?" "I don't know but he ate like 50 of us." "man.." "hey guys is there any more ham left? aw it's gone..."

[bricelee2]

should have used a smaller peice of ham, this vid takes too long

[nortonn050]

sick

[urdaddyj]

lol im trying to just follow one ant but i gave up after losing him in 2 secs

[selachophile]

makes me think of "Blue Velvet".

[jofacehasbeentaken2]

that's so cool.

wwooww :)

[cooliodmg]

Imagine if that was your finger. O.o

XD

[christianS91]

NO!!!!!