NOVA | Lord of the Ants | The Ant Whisperer | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/nova/eowilson World-renowned naturalist Edward O. Wilson explains amazing discoveries in ant communication and behavior.

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"Lord of the Ants" was produced for NOVA/WGBH by Windfall Films & Neil Patterson Productions

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[SeanBennion]

Why can't people just enjoy learning something new about the world around them instead of bringing religion and political views into everything? It's a cool show about ants. Leave it at that. Wtf.

[GodlessHippie]

Lord Of The Ants : II : The Two Mounds

[tyandash666]

@OddOpinion us humans payed more attention to each other and worked together as one like ants then the whole world would be a better place!

[NamelessSolider]

@GodlessHippie Lord Of The Ants: III : The Return of the Queen

[OddOpinion]

@SeanBennion Politics and religion are killing the world around us. How could you act as if it was irrelevant? Yah lets just watch the cool show and let the planet die... People need to debate and learn, its healthy.

[qwyzl]

@mnagmobile1 he said in the hour long presentation that ants don't see very well. they did not follow the pencil visually. they were following the chemical trail. i knew about this stuff when i was a kid, but then i had an avid interest in nature, even as a child. i used to read all sorts of books about nature. i think more people should do the same. the natural world is just so interesting, i don't see how any one else couldn't be interested about it.

[qwyzl]

@jayshep110 the ants would attack or drive away the ant you put on their mound. they can sense whether an ant is a member of their community or not. they don't tolerate interlopers.

[MRLfromhell]

@mnagmobile1 facepalm.jpeg

He was just demonstrating how ants use pheromones. Of course that wasn't an experiment LMAO

[mnagmobile1]

I am very disappointed at this so-called "ant expert." The scientific method he showed with the paper and chemical trail doesn't really prove definitively how ants communicate. From what I saw in this clip he dragged the pencil from the first piece of food and he never stated the possibility that one ant was visually following (since he placed it so close) and then having the others follow as well...

[sam199166]

@GodlessHippie Lord of the Ants : III : The return of the lizard.

[00Gr1mm00]

Back then when i was a Kid me and my friends did this all the time.

This was like a real time strategy game.When we found two nests near each other

we let them fight.This was fun.

[IchiJewSan]

Ants are so sophisticated but yet people kill them.