The cool thing is that if you put a second ant, it will finish the maze faster than the first and the third will finish faster. They follow chemical trails and the one that leads to the finish will have a stronger scent.
The ant does not know but the idea is that smarter ants know where they have been and if are in an unhappy state of ant mind will try hard to avoid familiar places.
This particular ant had never been in the maze before but somehow it made very few wasted moves to get to the last place it had not been. The odds of doing that randomly are pretty remote thus the name Einstein who never did anything random in his life except all of a sudden come up with the theory of relativity.
the whole time, i was so irrtated with the thing, that it couldn't find the finish line, and it kept going into the wrong directions. i was like, "follow my mouse! itll help yout othe finish line!"
Although the treat system seems entirely arbitrary, and even though the ant is feeling the transparent wall frequently (possibly confused by the light); it seemed that the ant never backtracked too much. Ants lay down scent trails and can mark where they have been, similar to chalk in a labyrinth. It is though that they can then "see" a rough estimate of how frequently they have been through an area and distinguish familiar vs new areas. The ant seems to be uncovering new territory.
If there isnt a treat at the end the ant has no motivation to go in one specific directing... this isnt an IQ test its a how many people can you get to watch this vid test...
you have to tell it at the beginning of the test, there's no point waiting to tell it at the end because logically by then it already knows the way out
@primenumerist Ants have keen senses placing a treat inside the maze will cause the smell of the treat to go throughout the maze. The ant will simply follow the path with the most "smell" and lead itself to the end. So the faster the ant gets to the "prize" the more IQ it would have.
@primenumerist Ants have keen senses placing a treat inside the maze will cause the smell of the treat to go throughout the maze. So the faster the ant gets to the "prize" the more IQ it would have.
@primenumerist smell dumb ass rats go by smell too dont make any more iq tests for the ants because you keep proving that the only thing that really needs an iq test is you
Proves nothing. I was hoping the ant would eliminate its previous steps. And the " finish " seems no different than the other 3 corners. It would arrive there anyway. Just looks like a trapped insect trying to get out. At least twice it tried to get out thru the ceiling.
It did eliminate many "unnecessary" steps. Most ants doing this maze don't do nearly as good as Einstein. He is in charge of my tax returns now and I do better at the Black Jack tables.
@primenumerist Hope to start my own colony next year. I'm from Scotland and we only get small ones over here. I'll be studying them closely. I really don't agree with those blue gel things. They need mental stimulation.
Hey, I am doing a science project that has to do with ants going through a maze, and i was going to build one, but I was wondering where you got this maze. Thanks.
Ah you assume that this ant is "remembering" where it had previously gone, however it could easily be laying down a pheromone trail, as ants usually do, and using that to show where it had gone before. Not unlike a person laying a string or a guideline as they went into a maze....
@McMaxTube This comment has been trasnlated into ant genius. I just pointing out what Russian said for people who don't know how to use Google Translate.
Put in 1 worker ant into a maze with food at the end. When she finishes, take her out, put her near 2 workers other workers(same nest), and put the pair of workers alone into the start of the maze. I wonder if they will be able to follow the scent trail of the first one...
The start and finish corners have bigger "chambers" but other than that I totally agree with you! (Maybe to tell the ant where finish is you could put little signs in there) =P
that finish corner isn't different than any other corner in the maze so that ant wouldn't know where it would "finish." I mean you unless you can tell the ant where you want it to finish and how it will know it will be finished, this isn't very accurate for ant IQ testing. -_-
but back to my orginal statement, the ant doesnt know when it's actually done seeing as the maze is extremely generic. when i look at the maze, it's just full of white walls... there's nothing else. if you look at the ant, you can see it's trying to get out, but there's no way out. It's just a corner you picked by yourself.
So are you MushDragon! You have been ensnared by my 3D allegory of life. You have mistaken the sublime for the obvious and you are now doomed to walk the maze of life with a really bad attitude. Besides you keep coming back to this same video. That should tell you something. BWA HA HA....
@primenumerist Has nothing to do with the video, please be more concerned about what I am talking about! It didn't get any reward and why should it go to just that corner you think is special. Maybe the ant just wants to get the hell outta there and by doing that you find it more intresting to test it and just wait until it gets out of the maze... what did you really test here? Luck?
@primenumerist@primenumerist Your comment has nothing to do with the video, please be more concerned about what I am talking about! It didn't get any reward and why should it go to just that corner you think is special. Maybe the ant just wants to get the hell outta there and by doing that you find it more intresting to test it and just wait until it gets out of the maze... what did you really test here? Luck?
@primenumerist Your comment has nothing to do with the video, please be more concerned about what I am talking about! It didn't get any reward and why should it go to just that corner you think is special. Maybe the ant just wants to get the hell outta there and by doing that you find it more intresting to test it and just wait until it gets out of the maze... what did you really test here? Luck?
I guess I can understand about the memory test, since something intelligent will try to find whatever they may find in a maze by going through all the places in it. Therefore remembering the places you've been through is a sign of intelligence. But testing luck? I mean, ain't luck all the same for everything?
ants leave odor like chrisbreizh29 said. :) thas y ant sniffing all over the place.
next time u get ant infestation folks and u see the trail... just rub ur finger real hard across and wipe out the scent!!! u'll see them ants lost and confused at that point.. lol!
Only true for mazes that do not have loops built into them.
I'm curious though, the comments make claims about the ant remembering locations and consciously solving the maze. I don't know if that is true, and it seems more likely that they are using short term recall of direction and scent markers rather than learning the maze. Would be interesting to see a test on that.
Ants are actual very smart Ants are wise there even smarter then a dog they have airconditioning sytems abricutlture soo much they use phenorines too comunitcate
You miss the main fact that ants mark their way like Hansel and Gretel.
you should imitate ant in that way, take pencil and draw weak line along all path where you go in the maze, always select random direction where where line is weakest. avoid directions where it is strongest
that will simulate your exploring ant.
if you need to go back just follow thickest line.
this is how ants optimize their path
also humans do not use random but pick always right or left one unless that human is dumb
Yeah but you have to remember, ants are blind and travel paths made by hormones. Without hormones and without sight, they are lost. Ants are intelligent, this guy just doesn't have the needs. If we didn't have roads, how easily could you navigate around town? Ants need a set path. They're born blind, so calling an ant dumb is rather pointless because they are one of the most intelligent creatures on the planet.
ants in fact CAN see dude but in order for them to know where to go they use hormones. the ants see the hormones and follow them and 3cola95 is right they have compund eyes that are in fact better than dragon fly eyes
Ants figure out how to do it because they leave a trail of their own scent so that they know where they've already been. Also their antennae tell them whether there's a dead end or not.
There should be a food reward at the end, and then when he gets it you open the start, to watch him get it, then reaturn to the rest with it., successfully going throguh the maze twice and able to succeed at something.
I did this when I was a kid. Ant vs. hamster, the ant learned its maze faster. Probably following chemical trails, yes...the second time through and the times after that it went almost straight to the exit. How did it know the right path vs the wrong one, when it had been over the whole maze? I suspect, that, because they have evolved to live in complex tunnels, it's a natural talent for them. I made the ant maze out of legos, with saran wrap and more legos to keep it in. Hamster maze from wood.
when an ant fisnd food it leaves a doted trail like this - - - - - when it fisnd food it gos back and lais a trail like this _________________ so that is probobly how it new the track
Well we don't drop scent chemicals everywhere to communicate with each other and find our way around but we still have a massive 100 billion neuron brains. The fact of the matter is Ants don't even know how they function, we do, that makes us the smart ones.
"If ants in general have any brains this ant should post lower and lower times."
Not true, their brains could just not have any memory or learning function. They don't need to learn, so they don't have it. Most insects are just like complicated robots when it comes to their nervous system.
Have fun with the experiments, anyways, though. :)
I bet ants use all their senses as input to figure out where to go most efficiently. Some senses more than others and the proportion changing from species to species.
It's not that specials most ants if not all, lets invisible markers on the ground, so they know where they come from, they can also reconize markers put down by another ant. Very usefull to find "new" places, food known spots, and find the way back home.
Wow... that was pretty cool. I'd like to try something like that sometime.... although I don't know how to make a maze like that where the ant can't get out.
do the normal ants (like the ones in your garden) do any thing differnt to the ones you can buy?. and if so what do they do differnt? also can the ants escape? PLEASE REPLY!!!
if a human were to be put in the maze at the size porpotional to him/her. would him/her be able to get out of the maze faster or slower than the ant? that would be a good experiment lol
if you didnt clean the maze and you used it for many other ants its because the so called "smart ant" found its way faster because it scented the trail of the other ant species.<- thats if you didn't wash the maze
good job ant give me a leg five:D
SourSmileyFace231 2 months ago
Hey, I just bought a gel ant farm, does any one know how to catch a queen?
I live in Florida, so I want a harvester ant queen.
MikeDaFerret 2 months ago
The ant looks like a mutaded spider more than an ant...
Candyismylife226 2 months ago
The cool thing is that if you put a second ant, it will finish the maze faster than the first and the third will finish faster. They follow chemical trails and the one that leads to the finish will have a stronger scent.
TRYCLOPS1 3 months ago
Increible.... poco terreno se a dejado por inspeccionar.
kastey2 4 months ago
. . . I'm no genius but even I can see there is no end to that maze
IsaelSwagger 4 months ago
it went backwards
nerradmw 5 months ago
wow die amaeise spührt den luftzug und läuft dem hinterher^^
DarkFreezer007 5 months ago
How was the ant supposed to know where the end is?
MIDNAq1LINK 7 months ago
@MIDNAq1LINK
The ant does not know but the idea is that smarter ants know where they have been and if are in an unhappy state of ant mind will try hard to avoid familiar places.
This particular ant had never been in the maze before but somehow it made very few wasted moves to get to the last place it had not been. The odds of doing that randomly are pretty remote thus the name Einstein who never did anything random in his life except all of a sudden come up with the theory of relativity.
primenumerist 7 months ago 6
That ant is a trooper!!!
zinco77 7 months ago
the whole time, i was so irrtated with the thing, that it couldn't find the finish line, and it kept going into the wrong directions. i was like, "follow my mouse! itll help yout othe finish line!"
MegaEpic2 7 months ago
I felt like yelling "you're going the wrong way!" when I thought about it and realized I was yelling at an animal that barely has a brain.
AceofDlamonds 7 months ago
ants dont have a good iq.. that ant was just exploring a new world
billmonster9 7 months ago
I'd solve mazes a lot faster if I got treats for them.
DWarrior666 7 months ago
Good thing we are in a 3D world
TheMida4 8 months ago
Although the treat system seems entirely arbitrary, and even though the ant is feeling the transparent wall frequently (possibly confused by the light); it seemed that the ant never backtracked too much. Ants lay down scent trails and can mark where they have been, similar to chalk in a labyrinth. It is though that they can then "see" a rough estimate of how frequently they have been through an area and distinguish familiar vs new areas. The ant seems to be uncovering new territory.
o00o000o000o00o 8 months ago
cool video just ingore all the mean commets they are people who need to get a life ants are smart but not as smart as humans keep up the good work =)
dinosaurman1000 9 months ago
wow that was cool i wonder why ppl are being so mean
darkfire1211 11 months ago
That thing is moving with his ass forward isn't it?
Babymonkeyonapig 11 months ago
@Babymonkeyonapig Yes
JohnDurrin 10 months ago
ant fail
MrWii56789 1 year ago
/rawr
Marsl2007 1 year ago
is the ant walking backwards?
dorothy1999 1 year ago
go little ant... find your freedom!
ItsGabbYouKnow 1 year ago
If there isnt a treat at the end the ant has no motivation to go in one specific directing... this isnt an IQ test its a how many people can you get to watch this vid test...
XxDeividdoxX 1 year ago 28
@XxDeividdoxX
How is the ant going to know about a "treat"?
primenumerist 1 year ago 3
@primenumerist
you have to tell it at the beginning of the test, there's no point waiting to tell it at the end because logically by then it already knows the way out
cthulhu11111111 1 year ago
@primenumerist Ants have keen senses placing a treat inside the maze will cause the smell of the treat to go throughout the maze. The ant will simply follow the path with the most "smell" and lead itself to the end. So the faster the ant gets to the "prize" the more IQ it would have.
XxDeividdoxX 1 year ago
@primenumerist Ants have keen senses placing a treat inside the maze will cause the smell of the treat to go throughout the maze. So the faster the ant gets to the "prize" the more IQ it would have.
XxDeividdoxX 1 year ago
@primenumerist As shown in this video....they have their ways...lol
HeeVindinho 1 year ago
@primenumerist um... smell? :P how do u think they find food?
bizzle246 9 months ago
@primenumerist Coz he was bad ? For exaple.
Walldante 8 months ago
@primenumerist Coz he was bad ? For exaple.
Walldante 8 months ago
@primenumerist smell dumb ass rats go by smell too dont make any more iq tests for the ants because you keep proving that the only thing that really needs an iq test is you
TheSovietBears 8 months ago
@primenumerist how is a rat suppose to noe about a treat at the end as well
tigerwar6 7 months ago
Proves nothing. I was hoping the ant would eliminate its previous steps. And the " finish " seems no different than the other 3 corners. It would arrive there anyway. Just looks like a trapped insect trying to get out. At least twice it tried to get out thru the ceiling.
Noodles37UK 1 year ago 3
@Noodles37UK
It did eliminate many "unnecessary" steps. Most ants doing this maze don't do nearly as good as Einstein. He is in charge of my tax returns now and I do better at the Black Jack tables.
primenumerist 1 year ago 8
@primenumerist Hope to start my own colony next year. I'm from Scotland and we only get small ones over here. I'll be studying them closely. I really don't agree with those blue gel things. They need mental stimulation.
Noodles37UK 1 year ago
Its no IQ, they constantly release a hormone which tells them that they were there before. They simply turn around and walk away from it to exit.
WarlockRothus 1 year ago
The ant was about as smart as george bush.
TehUnlimited 1 year ago
is the ant waliking backward or is its head so big?ha ha joking the answer is it has a big head
MegaRcdrifter 1 year ago
is the ant waliking backward or is its head so big?
MegaRcdrifter 1 year ago
Me: NO!!! IT'S THAT WAY!
I bet God does the same thing when it's Halloween and people are in a corn maze.
TNTIV 1 year ago
wow. that ant is cool. :)
kennysuavo 1 year ago
The ant is still smarter than the guy who posted this video.
PreppyPoser1 1 year ago 17
@PreppyPoser1
You are right, it took me around 40 hours to make the maze, it only took the ant a few minutes to solve it.
primenumerist 1 year ago 8
Now make a Minotaur lybrinth with a soldier ant and a few worker termites.
godboy114 1 year ago
Hey, I am doing a science project that has to do with ants going through a maze, and i was going to build one, but I was wondering where you got this maze. Thanks.
mpv13 1 year ago
I was selling them at one point as a hobby but moved on to other hobbies.
primenumerist 1 year ago
i think the ants pissed off at you
bigben123456789ify 1 year ago
wow and ants are blind
BigTShooter32 1 year ago
@BigTShooter32 not really. they have compound eyes
baggedyman 1 year ago
poor guy :(
clmamun 1 year ago
WOOOOOOOOOOOOW i love the ants!!
XSephonX 1 year ago
why is that ant walking backwards?
loyalbrown6 1 year ago
In soviet russia maze tests ant.
xbeast133 1 year ago
at 1:05, the ant tried to walk on the side of the maze :D
Theraiser2000 1 year ago
he sucks
RainAngel111 1 year ago
where did u get that from?
MrSamperkins 1 year ago
Ants leave a scent trail so... It can smell where it has been.
marthale7 1 year ago
'LEVEL COMPLETE'
Reminisent 1 year ago
I'll be more amazed when ants just sit there and refuse to participate in these stupid human experiments.
olmecbones 1 year ago
... why is it going backwareds? i think its fake.
mariosluigi 1 year ago
omg an ant
thomas4457 1 year ago
el this pretty much proves ants are retarted besides there strength
themaster91156 1 year ago
sweet freedom
benvezina2 1 year ago
Ant's like "When i get out of this i'll put YOU in a maze! >:/
SoraKH296 1 year ago
Ah you assume that this ant is "remembering" where it had previously gone, however it could easily be laying down a pheromone trail, as ants usually do, and using that to show where it had gone before. Not unlike a person laying a string or a guideline as they went into a maze....
BenTheMagnifice 1 year ago
муравей гений
McMaxTube 1 year ago
@McMaxTube This comment has been trasnlated into ant genius. I just pointing out what Russian said for people who don't know how to use Google Translate.
supercrazynintendo64 1 year ago
ants are still stupid, right?
JewsRule0 1 year ago
You should try this:
Put in 1 worker ant into a maze with food at the end. When she finishes, take her out, put her near 2 workers other workers(same nest), and put the pair of workers alone into the start of the maze. I wonder if they will be able to follow the scent trail of the first one...
ANTS RULE!!!
imacds 1 year ago
Please l2 climb over walls, that is all.
esseNtialMediaAU 1 year ago
yo mama
beastaboygotzmoney 1 year ago
lol its stupid
yes thats a wall, no you cant climb it, youve been here before :O
stupid ant is stupid
solved the puzzle at random, -1 IQ
ProblmSolvd 1 year ago
you should place a cookie at the finish so it would know where it would end
sonne2 1 year ago
@ComplexityVoid
The start and finish corners have bigger "chambers" but other than that I totally agree with you! (Maybe to tell the ant where finish is you could put little signs in there) =P
DemonWolfOfAkatsuki 1 year ago
That ant was like, "what the fuck! Stupid Humans!!"
possumshake 1 year ago
you couldve put a candy or food in there so in knows the finish line
altairx26 1 year ago
waka waka waka waka waka waka waka
is all i heard in my head when watching this.
biobiowar 1 year ago
HEY! no fair he was peeking over.
DarkSuccesses 1 year ago
dumbass ant
neighdur 1 year ago
this ant's using chemcials to figure out where its been right?
truestyleoutlaw 2 years ago
that ant is very smart...
ZachariasClub 2 years ago
he was thinking : LET ME OUT OF HERE BITCH!
LoneWolf31390 2 years ago
that finish corner isn't different than any other corner in the maze so that ant wouldn't know where it would "finish." I mean you unless you can tell the ant where you want it to finish and how it will know it will be finished, this isn't very accurate for ant IQ testing. -_-
ComplexityVoid 2 years ago 56
All an ant needs to solve a maze is to remember where it has been and also a bit of luck.
That is what is being tested here: memory and luck.
primenumerist 2 years ago
but back to my orginal statement, the ant doesnt know when it's actually done seeing as the maze is extremely generic. when i look at the maze, it's just full of white walls... there's nothing else. if you look at the ant, you can see it's trying to get out, but there's no way out. It's just a corner you picked by yourself.
ComplexityVoid 1 year ago
@primenumerist Very bad test then, has nothing to do with it's IQ, it is still trapped in the maze of doom :(
mushdragon 1 year ago
@mushdragon
So are you MushDragon! You have been ensnared by my 3D allegory of life. You have mistaken the sublime for the obvious and you are now doomed to walk the maze of life with a really bad attitude. Besides you keep coming back to this same video. That should tell you something. BWA HA HA....
primenumerist 1 year ago
@primenumerist Has nothing to do with the video, please be more concerned about what I am talking about! It didn't get any reward and why should it go to just that corner you think is special. Maybe the ant just wants to get the hell outta there and by doing that you find it more intresting to test it and just wait until it gets out of the maze... what did you really test here? Luck?
mushdragon 1 year ago
@primenumerist @primenumerist Your comment has nothing to do with the video, please be more concerned about what I am talking about! It didn't get any reward and why should it go to just that corner you think is special. Maybe the ant just wants to get the hell outta there and by doing that you find it more intresting to test it and just wait until it gets out of the maze... what did you really test here? Luck?
mushdragon 1 year ago
@primenumerist Your comment has nothing to do with the video, please be more concerned about what I am talking about! It didn't get any reward and why should it go to just that corner you think is special. Maybe the ant just wants to get the hell outta there and by doing that you find it more intresting to test it and just wait until it gets out of the maze... what did you really test here? Luck?
mushdragon 1 year ago
@primenumerist
I guess I can understand about the memory test, since something intelligent will try to find whatever they may find in a maze by going through all the places in it. Therefore remembering the places you've been through is a sign of intelligence. But testing luck? I mean, ain't luck all the same for everything?
marcccram 1 year ago
@primenumerist im sorry but luck?
Clod15 1 year ago
@Clod15
I asked the ant that, The answer is unprintable.
primenumerist 1 year ago 10
@primenumerist Lol! hhhahahahaha xD =) that made my day.
Clod15 1 year ago
@primenumerist ant lay down a chemical so no loss
coolaidkiller101 1 year ago
@ComplexityVoid Actually, yes there is a difference. There are two large corners and two small ones. But you have a point.
caHarkness 1 year ago
@ComplexityVoid
theres a hole at the "end" for the ant to climb out of the maze
sangreviento69 1 year ago
@sangreviento69 I see no hole unfortunately. If you are talking about the circles, there's one on every corner.
ComplexityVoid 1 year ago
@ComplexityVoid
The start is lower left and the ending "platform" is upper right. Those are the only corners with circles - which are hard to see at this angle.
primenumerist 1 year ago
that dumb bitch :)
BradShreds 2 years ago
Ants use scent to make trails of where they have been =|
Weremoose 2 years ago 7
I hate fire ants a lot!!! But ants like these are cute and funny! Sugar ants aren't that bad also... :P
brollyhero99 2 years ago
you think ants are cute?
ttttwolf4 2 years ago
ants are awsome i have a huge collection of different things that vary from sea monkeys to ants i love catching ants i just want a queen though.
cooperelgar2 2 years ago
i have a quen in an ant farm. its a home-made ant farm so its pretty big. its 15 inches
by 15 inches
billybot30 2 years ago
You never know if these ants are searching for hidden doors ;D
nexxtech911 2 years ago 9
ants leave odor like chrisbreizh29 said. :) thas y ant sniffing all over the place.
next time u get ant infestation folks and u see the trail... just rub ur finger real hard across and wipe out the scent!!! u'll see them ants lost and confused at that point.. lol!
ok. so maybe i should find other hobbies... O_o
but ants are amazing.. none the less..
ronchong 2 years ago 12
it also works if you spray a mix of vinegar and water on the trail
kirbylover9797 2 years ago
@ronchong hnm... they leave a scent??
i thought they leave a 'sticky trail substance'
(like a railroad) that eyes cant see.. yea and i agreed o you when you say rub their trails and they're panicing where to go
09106073576 2 years ago
Hey, if that maze was big enough for humans, we'd probably be lost too.
petso66 2 years ago 45
If you follow one of the walls, you will always find your way out.
D0g63rt 2 years ago 8
Only true for mazes that do not have loops built into them.
I'm curious though, the comments make claims about the ant remembering locations and consciously solving the maze. I don't know if that is true, and it seems more likely that they are using short term recall of direction and scent markers rather than learning the maze. Would be interesting to see a test on that.
Dracklen248 2 years ago 2
@petso66 a human would probably get lost for eternity but not in the maze but in his mind :P the riddle is in our brain ..
skifi1 1 year ago
Great video. Would love to see more:
1) attach a maze to your ant farm
2) instead of an exit at the "finish", place a supply of yummy ant food particles.
3) let ants go in one at a time to retrieve food, but allow returning ants to mingle with the ant about to enter.
After a certain time you could remove all the gate(s) leading into the maze and you'd see all ants completing successful missions without error.
However, if you clean the maze, will the ants appear to start from step one again?
bulletproofcourier 2 years ago
Amazing!
Se7o0 2 years ago
i like ants because they are loyal.
potatofaries 2 years ago 7
i wonder how small their brain is
101specialforce 2 years ago
Ants are actual very smart Ants are wise there even smarter then a dog they have airconditioning sytems abricutlture soo much they use phenorines too comunitcate
crappieya 2 years ago
That ant has no idea of the implications it was involved in.
noxvet 2 years ago 4
Tthe ant leavs a trail of sent marks to show whare it has been becuse ants cannot see.
(Thay can but its not very good)
This is how ants find thar way back to a colony or some food.
anyways regardlest of what you are proveing this video is a good example of this
Sulaco117 2 years ago
the tension bulids while we wait for them to finish!
ilovewormy56 2 years ago 2
You miss the main fact that ants mark their way like Hansel and Gretel.
you should imitate ant in that way, take pencil and draw weak line along all path where you go in the maze, always select random direction where where line is weakest. avoid directions where it is strongest
that will simulate your exploring ant.
if you need to go back just follow thickest line.
this is how ants optimize their path
also humans do not use random but pick always right or left one unless that human is dumb
deltaxcd 2 years ago
ants can see they have eyes. in-fact they have compound eyes like dragon flies so that mens that they can see even better than most other things.
3cola95 2 years ago
Yeah but you have to remember, ants are blind and travel paths made by hormones. Without hormones and without sight, they are lost. Ants are intelligent, this guy just doesn't have the needs. If we didn't have roads, how easily could you navigate around town? Ants need a set path. They're born blind, so calling an ant dumb is rather pointless because they are one of the most intelligent creatures on the planet.
jonah232 2 years ago 4
ants in fact CAN see dude but in order for them to know where to go they use hormones. the ants see the hormones and follow them and 3cola95 is right they have compund eyes that are in fact better than dragon fly eyes
gruntie101 2 years ago
increible la hormiga sabe donde esta parada, por ende no le da importancia al laberinto
Pepitopereztripi 2 years ago
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chdskcs 2 years ago
you know if you do this with people it'll take longer...
THEn00b557 2 years ago 2
Ants figure out how to do it because they leave a trail of their own scent so that they know where they've already been. Also their antennae tell them whether there's a dead end or not.
RiikoxCatx3 2 years ago 2
very intelligent
PokemonMario999 2 years ago
he made it to all 4 corners
nrp97 2 years ago
There should be a food reward at the end, and then when he gets it you open the start, to watch him get it, then reaturn to the rest with it., successfully going throguh the maze twice and able to succeed at something.
RatongaBruiser 2 years ago
They'll eat you one day, they always do
inricheetos 2 years ago 11
thats one ugly ant
RoIIand 3 years ago
see you can be entertained by and animal without killing it.
jordanno1231 3 years ago 3
cant the ant just climb over?
403988 3 years ago
There is a clear plastic lid on top of the maze.
primenumerist 3 years ago
I did this when I was a kid. Ant vs. hamster, the ant learned its maze faster. Probably following chemical trails, yes...the second time through and the times after that it went almost straight to the exit. How did it know the right path vs the wrong one, when it had been over the whole maze? I suspect, that, because they have evolved to live in complex tunnels, it's a natural talent for them. I made the ant maze out of legos, with saran wrap and more legos to keep it in. Hamster maze from wood.
Ichijojichan 3 years ago 2
when an ant fisnd food it leaves a doted trail like this - - - - - when it fisnd food it gos back and lais a trail like this _________________ so that is probobly how it new the track
manta965 3 years ago
If I remember correctly, you can get out of any maze if you hold onto one wall with your hand and never let go.
Besides, the ant knows where he has been with its chemical trail, it's no more complicated than it would be for a human with a string.
zompreacher 3 years ago
u can get out of any maze [developed on one floor] if u hold your hand onto one wall starting [from the beginning] and never let go
puffolotti 3 years ago 4
That ant is probably smarter than like.....90% of the kids at my school.LOL!
imlaughing2death 3 years ago 8
o_____O i went to a huge maze at my school at a fair and wooow o-o 1 hr later i'm out
bluextiger 3 years ago
hahhahhahahahahahahah thats so funny
JessaTehMessa34 3 years ago
wow il never look at them the same way agen. Wait a minute were dumber than ants
spore846 3 years ago
Well we don't drop scent chemicals everywhere to communicate with each other and find our way around but we still have a massive 100 billion neuron brains. The fact of the matter is Ants don't even know how they function, we do, that makes us the smart ones.
xXAkridXx 3 years ago
Some of us know how we function, or think we know. Theres a lot of clueless people around with no education or desire to learn.
Sslivers1 3 years ago 2
Ant species that were less capable of remembering where they had been over and over again are replaced by more competitive ant species.
Ants are very social and probably avoid staring at maze walls for any length of time. There is no such thing as an autistic ant.
primenumerist 3 years ago
"If ants in general have any brains this ant should post lower and lower times."
Not true, their brains could just not have any memory or learning function. They don't need to learn, so they don't have it. Most insects are just like complicated robots when it comes to their nervous system.
Have fun with the experiments, anyways, though. :)
AceMgy 3 years ago
Ants can follow other ants scent trails.
:)
N2KC 3 years ago 2
maybe u could put a drop of maple syrup at the end and the ant would have better navigation
crunchyshampoo 3 years ago
wow!! i have pet ants 2 there just as smart!
coolsaff 3 years ago
i like ants too, i pick them up when im walking around and tell them how cool i think they are
zathusura78910 3 years ago 4
"i pick them up when im walking around and tell them how cool i think they are"
LOL your so cool =P
Evilibyss 3 years ago
does the ant know where not to go by scent or some other sense? My next best guess would be memory. Primenumerist what is your take on it?
barbage18 3 years ago 2
I bet ants use all their senses as input to figure out where to go most efficiently. Some senses more than others and the proportion changing from species to species.
primenumerist 3 years ago
what are the measurements of the maze?
maliceignorance 3 years ago 2
around 3 x 4 inches
primenumerist 3 years ago
i say there not stupid because were looking it at bids view and the ant is looking at walls looking a way out =P
timothyzzzx 3 years ago 3
The special thing about this ant is that whenever he retraces his steps, he doesn't go back very far.
CollectiveFury 3 years ago 2
It's not that specials most ants if not all, lets invisible markers on the ground, so they know where they come from, they can also reconize markers put down by another ant. Very usefull to find "new" places, food known spots, and find the way back home.
Roswent7 3 years ago
Wow... that was pretty cool. I'd like to try something like that sometime.... although I don't know how to make a maze like that where the ant can't get out.
unclefestus 3 years ago
do the normal ants (like the ones in your garden) do any thing differnt to the ones you can buy?. and if so what do they do differnt? also can the ants escape? PLEASE REPLY!!!
rockyboy201 4 years ago
is the ant a worker or soldier?worker and soldier ants are blind, they only use their anttenae to guide themselves.btw u mhst give ur ant an exit.
-Janrea
theamari98 4 years ago
the ant is looking for food!!
jamolinx 4 years ago
if it was so smart it would sit their knowing that their is no exit
WaterCow12 4 years ago
The one and only way to get outta labyrinth or maze, is to stick to either the left wall or the right wall.. at any cost
123TauruZ321 4 years ago
If it was a human vs an ant the human wouldn't walk back to where it first started... the ant went back the way it came at a part in the video.
DunemaulFTW 4 years ago
Humans walk around in circles when confused, just like ants - all the time. A maze is just a bunch of jagged circles.
I bet humans in corn mazes often end up back at "start here".
primenumerist 4 years ago
if a human were to be put in the maze at the size porpotional to him/her. would him/her be able to get out of the maze faster or slower than the ant? that would be a good experiment lol
debit256 4 years ago
Who would win? Paris Hilton or your average carpenter work ant?
primenumerist 4 years ago
the ant!
killingbomb0 4 years ago
the ant
triggerhppy 4 years ago
LOL! of course the ant would win.
atzi08 3 years ago
if you didnt clean the maze and you used it for many other ants its because the so called "smart ant" found its way faster because it scented the trail of the other ant species.<- thats if you didn't wash the maze
DrPysonic 4 years ago