Wow. That looks like one BIG ant colony. Ants are actually VERY facinating to study. Thanks for the post!

~D

Amazing but they destroyed the colony

The "lines" you see are where they poured concrete down the ant colony, so that they could find out what the internal structure was like. They waited for the concrete to harden, and then excavated it.

The narrator said something like "It looks like it was designed by an architect." You have to wonder how "evolution" produces something like that.

Ya I have been studing termites/ants and whatever cause I have recently got a few toads...

Anyway..

Its amazing on how these guys work, all of them work the same with no pay no nothing but keep everything going...

Termites can have dwellings up to a 3000 ft long in some places...

But ya it is interesting. I give them credit.

On an ironic note.. Ant and termite are almost the same, but yet they hate each other.

What are we capable of?

Well we can go into space, to the bottoms of the oceans, destroy a planet if we so wished, bring back people from the brink of death, build skyscrapers and put cheese into a spray can.

Bloody impressive ants though, nature never ceases to amaze.

Originally posted by Zanzibar
Well we can go into space, to the bottoms of the oceans, destroy a planet if we so wished, bring back people from the brink of death, build skyscrapers and put cheese into a spray can.

But we do this bitching and screaming and fighting the whole way.
As for the ants they do this with no problems at all.

Absolutely extraordinary little creatures. Great video, thanks for sharing

Top Notch mate. That was was an awesome video! Im gunna show all my mates. Itleft me pretty much speachless. And to think we pretend these things arn't smart and burn them for fun with a magnifying glass...

Thanks again.

[edit on 21-7-2008 by ka0s69]