Male Army Ant Dissection

Phil Ward dissects a male army ant at Ant Course.. Video by Barrent Klein and Brian Fisher

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ant
• morphology
• male
• dissection
• Phil
• Ward
• Formicidae

[DJSexLeopard]

@PBDPBD whoah. Your way off. I have done my own personal research on ants. Ants infact do run from fire. I know because I used a lighter to burn them and they all tremble and run away from danger. Also ants pick up and carry their dead to wherever. They never leave their own behind. So what this tells me, they have fear. That means they value life, which in return they must feel loss. Therefore I, on my own research, have found that ants feel pain in some way shape or form. They are fascinating

[PBDPBD]

@DJSexLeopard Impossible to tell for certain. However, ants with wounds do not behave in ways that you would expect from a wounded animal that feels pain. Raw stumps on their legs, for example, continue to get used as if the leg were unharmed. This suggests that, at the very least, ants do not feel pain after the initial wound is applied. Then again, they also don't really respond very much to things like fire getting closer. They continue on doing what they're doing until they're burnt alive.

[nothadnotbad]

this video quality sux

[DJSexLeopard]

hey do ants feel pain?

[pupating]

when I filmed this video during the Costa Rica ant course, I didn't expect to later make it into a youtubable video. the audio is better when I get closer to Phil...

[loveroux637]

it must be hard...dissecting a small animal...

[tustusyo]

NIce video, although the audio it's pretty poor, it's a shame b/c it seems very interesting! I'm an entomologist student and I also own the guide: ANTS of N.America, A guide to the genera....very nice guide!!