Army ants face off against the leafcutters
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Uploaded by InfiniteWorld on Apr 3, 2008
A trail of Eciton burchellii army ants in Costa Rica blocks the path of a leafcutter ant trail. The army ants hold the leafcutter ants at bay so the army ant workers can return to the nest with prey. The army ants kinda look like linebackers holding off the leafcutters. I never saw them fight although sometimes they looked like they were trying to threaten each other to psych the other ants out.
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it's like Frogger on insane level.
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@hallowedgravy Ha, they have exoskeletons!
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Some traffic lights would help here..
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nice video
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its like starcraft
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Zerglings!!!
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Did you see how the army ants have guards on both sides of the "road"?
They do nothing but waiting there and everytime a leafcutter ant wants to cross the road the guard of the army ants stop them.
The leafcutter ants too have soldiers. That are the bigger red ants. But they did not start a fight.
These two kind of ants are no rivals. So it would not be worth it.
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a mexican standoff of tiny proportions
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Who won ? lol
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Poor dude with the leaf at 2:40 doesn't know where to go.
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i wonder what would hppen if these ants has nucleur/biological weapons?
SuperCaTalon 1 week ago
@SuperCaTalon Well they can squirt poison. And some ants can blow themselves up to disable an intruder (search 'exploding ants borneo'). good stuff! :)
InfiniteWorld 1 week ago
I wonder what would have happened if you killed 10 of them on each side.. Would they attack each other?
derricaantonio 3 weeks ago
@derricaantonio They would attack you
InfiniteWorld 3 weeks ago 10
@InfiniteWorld Well, that would really do some impact on me. wouldn't it?? Man.. But I know that ants from different cultures or nations will attack each other, here somehow, they have a mutual thing going that I never saw before. So I am merely curious of how to make them charge on to each other.. If stepping on ten of each would start the war.
derricaantonio 3 weeks ago
@derricaantonio Hard to say, maybe if you could get one of them to squirt out some alarm pheromone they might fight, but they seem to try pretty hard to avoid each other. Its a "mutually assured destruction" kind of thing.
InfiniteWorld 3 weeks ago