1- Inside the Ant Colony / ( SLICE )

In the Jura Mountains of Switzerland lies a huge dome which houses thousands of ants. Meet the ‘formica rufa’, also called red wood ant or southern wood ant, native to Europe. Nests of these ants are very large, usually located in the woods and their dark tunnels can hold up to 400,000 workers and one hundred queens.

Extract from the documentary: “Animal Builders”
Direction: Lucas Allain
Production: ZED, France Télévisions, Ushuaïa TV & CuriosityStream

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2 – The Largest Civilization in The World

Imagine a civilization that outnumbers humanity by six orders of magnitude. By one and a half million times.
And it’s not some bacteria.
These creatures have created a fully functional social order.
They have a clear hierarchy, professions, and career ladders.
They are long past the hunting and gathering stage and have successfully transitioned to agriculture and animal husbandry.
They teach the youth, take care of the elderly and the disabled, and bury their dead.
They can even reproduce by cloning.
They have easily outlived every single species that prevailed on their planet in the last hundred million years.
But at the same time, a simple infection can turn them into real zombies.
Does it seem like some post-apocalyptic science fiction to you?
And yet, it’s not.
It’s all about ants.

In this video, you’ll find out how many ants there are on Earth, how much they weigh, when they emerged, how they live, how they practice agriculture, why their society resembles human civilization, and much more that will surprise and even shock you!
Ants.

3 – Fire Ants – Most successful creature that has ever lived / Full Episode

Witness one of natures ancient wonders – Fire Ants!
It has been adapting, evolving for 150 million years 14 000 species they are nearly everywhere thriving.
This is the story of solenopsis Invicta for 80 years it has been on a ceaseless march across the United States racking up six billion dollars every year in crop damage equipment repair and Pest Control conquering 340 million acres in 13 states and it’s still on the Move globally now scientists are cracking their ancient secrets to success and survival we knew that we could speculate all day but to fully understand the ants we decided to bring them into the lab and obtain visual data.

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