Animal Survival Technique - Smarter Every Day (T-5)

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Uploaded by on May 10, 2009

Ants surviving a flood.

When flood waters rise above their mound, fire ants link their bodies together forming a giant living raft. They take food and their larva with them in a desperate attempt to keep the colony alive. Flying drones stay with the colony.

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  • 1:48 ya you pimp slap those animals on the brink of death

  • What happens if you drop some soap in there? will it break the surface tension drowning the ants?

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  • Where is this it looks like somewhere close to me btw I do live in Alabama

  • I have often thought that if people were to work together with the swift un-aguing tenacity of ants, we would be light-years ahead of where we are now. Great video, Destin!

  • Blend the biomass

  • destroy it with fire! >:l

  • pyooor bah oh mahs

  • That's awesome!

  • that's the most social thing I've seen. ever.

  • Did you move it to safer ground?

  • The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

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