Awe Inspiring Giant Ant Hill Excavated

Originally posted by mileslong54
I wonder what a more advanced species will do when they come along to study us? Wipe us out and then study us. This is both amazing a quite sad, there has to be ground radar, infered or some technology where this could have been done without the killing of the entire colony.

The anthill was deserted for a long time there were no ants killed i dont know why they choose cement over ground radar maybe they didnt have that kind of equipment to do this at the time..but there was no mass murder to the ants and thanks for your reply ~~

Originally posted by Wolfenz

Originally posted by sugarcookie1

Originally posted by 11I11
You want to know who built the pyramids? Ants, ants, ants, ants and more ants!

Sure a few trillion ants got together and built the pyramids

thanks for the reply

Egyptian Ants Team work !


if they were this size and can be controlled LOL! you better start Looking for pincher marks on those Bricks!

THEM!

Seriously Ant & Human have more things in Common that any other species more than Primates!

live in a Socialistic economical Structure Team Work , They have Soldiers Scouts Explorers ,Builders,Nannys , Farmers! Harvesters ,Slaves and LIVE STOCK!! and a Chain Function Physical body structure designed for a certain Occupation

Ant have Livestock like how we humans have cattle ! I have'NT Seen a Primate that has Livestock !

Crazy Ant Farmers - Weird Nature - BBC animals

Learn more about the weird and wonderful world of ants as they farm great herds of aphids to harvest the sweet honeydew nectar. Great animal video from BBC show 'Weird Nature'.

Ant-aphid

Slavery Rife Among Lake Tahoe's Ant Colonies

Note the Video Above has Comments that are Hilarious!

Here is the Source !

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Disgusting! These ants need an Abraham Lincoln, or Wilberforce or a Moses ant! Either that or they just feed some poison leaf or something to those other big fat lazy ants!

That's all we f**king need. Ants demonstrating for and against slavery....

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Thank you Wolfenz for all the videos a couple there were very funny goes to show Ant & Human do have alot in common thanks for your post

Originally posted by believer74
if Ants can build something of this complexity and we as a 'higher' species can't.. doesn't that tell you that we're not of this planet (?)
the ant farmer noticed that his ants adapted to their enviroment.. we can't, we destroy our enviroments (strip mining.. deforestation etc).
Ants communicate using pheromones we depend on devices created by ourselves.
Ants are far 'higher' than us..
perhaps we don't belong here (?)

believer74 i dont know how to answer all that but its food for thought and i agree we do destroy alot of our enviroment the ants could teach us alot about ourselfs thank you for replying

Originally posted by lifttheveil
Thanks very much for posting this video, I watched it with my wife and daughter and we all found it fascinating.

Such a great combined intelligence at work and very artistic to look at, we've got at an ants nest under our house, and I admit, we've used all sorts of nasty stuff to try and get rid of them over the years but they ain't budging. Most ant killers seem to have the same active ingredient, Permetherineor something similar it's called, I think the ant's are immune to it though.

I've got to admit after watching this I feel a bit guilty, maybe the reason they won't budge is because they have a similar complex system under my dwelling. They don't show through the winter but there's a lot outside in the summer, we only get the odd few in the house though and only in summer.

Im happy you and your wife and daughter enjoyed the video..I gave up trying to rid my yard of ants a long time ago they dont seem to budge they just rebuilt and yes they seem to like Permetherine thats in most bug killers ..Ive got the same thing going they arent around in the winter the snow covers the hills up but in the summer there everywere they tear up my yard but after watching the video the yard is theres i feel guilty also thanks for your reply!

totally insane, im not an ant person in any aspect, ive killed many on a sidewalk. to think that they are capable of that - the magnatude - is amazing....... and the length of time it took to ecavate it, equally insane. i wonder what is to become of the cement metropolis?

Originally posted by london
totally insane, im not an ant person in any aspect, ive killed many on a sidewalk. to think that they are capable of that - the magnatude - is amazing....... and the length of time it took to ecavate it, equally insane. i wonder what is to become of the cement metropolis?

Hello london i see your new to ATS and welcome to the forums
I think many of us have killed a few ants in our day they can be a pest..Im like you i had no idea they were so smart and could do things like this to that magnatude it was huge!
I dont know what happned to this hive im sure its still standing right were its at i dont think they moved it but that would have been a great thing to put on display somewere..Im giveing you your second star on ATS and thanks for your reply

all thats needed is a half gallon of diesel and a match...tey just cant compete with Man,no matter how "smart" they ar

Originally posted by Homedawg
all thats needed is a half gallon of diesel and a match...tey just cant compete with Man,no matter how "smart" they ar

Homedawg, thats your opinion and i don't agree we live in an amazing world this ant hive is one of the wonders of nature , we need respect the things around us its people like you that destroy nature without even a thought and i find that very sad..thanks for your reply

SAVE THE ANTS!!!! Just kidding...sort of. I hate ants! I will come out and say it, I squash those suckers the second I see them enter my house. But, to see something as amazing as this destroyed for curiosity sake, does bother me. I mean $h1t the whole video they are talking about how it is, "Truly a natural wonder," while you watch them pour concrete, right down their gullet.

At the end of the day though....they are ants. And what do we do to ants??? Squash them!!!!

#!!! I need to stop watching tv

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no, but give them half an hour and a dictionary and they could probably remember to put an 'h' and an 'e' in the right place......

Originally posted by TheRealTruth84
SAVE THE ANTS!!!!

Just kidding...sort of. I hate ants! I will come out and say it, I squash those suckers the second I see them enter my house. But, to see something as amazing as this destroyed for curiosity sake, does bother me. I mean $h1t the whole video they are talking about how it is, "Truly a natural wonder," while you watch them pour concrete, right down their gullet.

At the end of the day though....they are ants. And what do we do to ants??? Squash them!!!!

#!!! I need to stop watching tv

Hi TheRealTruth84 im not in love with ants either and we have all squashed some of them from time to time i dont like them in my house either But i do have respect for ants that i never had before since watching this video but your right lol SAVE THE ANTS!!!! thanks for your reply

Originally posted by believer74
if Ants can build something of this complexity and we as a 'higher' species can't.. doesn't that tell you that we're not of this planet (?)
the ant farmer noticed that his ants adapted to their enviroment.. we can't, we destroy our enviroments (strip mining.. deforestation etc).
Ants communicate using pheromones we depend on devices created by ourselves.
Ants are far 'higher' than us..
perhaps we don't belong here (?)

believer74 i dont know how to answer all that but its food for thought

and i agree we do destroy alot of our enviroment the ants could teach us alot about ourselfs thank you for replying

I'd have to disagree with this commentor. Some humans (though a great many of us) destroy our environments, much like parasites do. However, there are many humans who have throughout history fallen comfortably into their surroundings and not destroyed them. Sadly modern humans are more destructive than they are at peace with their surroundings --but that doesn't mean we've always been this way. There are still countless tribes who still live comfortably within their land adding to it and not taking away from it. It's a matter of what portion of our species you look at.

This was a wonderfully interesting post, by the way. I was concerned at first that they'd killed off the colony to research it. To destroy something that complex just for the sake of curiosity really would make one wonder what other civilizations might want to do to us if they happened upon us. I'm an ant person, and use my fascination with them to terrorize my mate all the time (he is very anti-ant). This was great

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why do you think they would ever compete with us? i cannot stop wondering why some of us act like in a war zone on this planet! im sure they had an unhappy childhood or sth but get over it!..if you are not able to love and respect this planet(ants included) you shouldnt be allowed to live here..try Mars! ....

so it was ant people that built the Dulce base, cool!

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If its such a wonder of the world why the hell did we cement the thing?! .......

What a miracle, wish we had a city like that.

Originally posted by EttaDiem

Originally posted by believer74
if Ants can build something of this complexity and we as a 'higher' species can't.. doesn't that tell you that we're not of this planet (?)
the ant farmer noticed that his ants adapted to their enviroment.. we can't, we destroy our enviroments (strip mining.. deforestation etc).
Ants communicate using pheromones we depend on devices created by ourselves.
Ants are far 'higher' than us..
perhaps we don't belong here (?)

believer74 i dont know how to answer all that but its food for thought

and i agree we do destroy alot of our enviroment the ants could teach us alot about ourselfs thank you for replying

I'd have to disagree with this commentor. Some humans (though a great many of us) destroy our environments, much like parasites do. However, there are many humans who have throughout history fallen comfortably into their surroundings and not destroyed them. Sadly modern humans are more destructive than they are at peace with their surroundings --but that doesn't mean we've always been this way. There are still countless tribes who still live comfortably within their land adding to it and not taking away from it. It's a matter of what portion of our species you look at.

This was a wonderfully interesting post, by the way. I was concerned at first that they'd killed off the colony to research it. To destroy something that complex just for the sake of curiosity really would make one wonder what other civilizations might want to do to us if they happened upon us. I'm an ant person, and use my fascination with them to terrorize my mate all the time (he is very anti-ant). This was great

Very good post EttaDiem
There is many tribes out there that dont destroy there their surroundings thanks for reminding me of that they live on the land and onley take what they need so yes it hasnt always been that way ..I was also concerned that we came in and destroyed this hive but that wasnt the case i was happy for that Thats funny what you do with your mate i bet they get mad haha..thanks for your reply~~

Originally posted by amongyou
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why do you think they would ever compete with us? i cannot stop wondering why some of us act like in a war zone on this planet! im sure they had an unhappy childhood or sth but get over it!..if you are not able to love and respect this planet(ants included

) you shouldnt be allowed to live here..try Mars! ..

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edit on 26-4-2011 by amongyou because: sorry..the response was to homedawg ..

I see your response was to homedawg and thanks for your post

Originally posted by Biigs
so it was ant people that built the Dulce base, cool!

lol that was funny and Dulce base is a strange place! thanks for your reply

Originally posted by Nobama
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If its such a wonder of the world why the hell did we cement the thing?! .......

They put cement in the hive to study it to see how the ants lived there were no ants harmed the hive was empty~~thanks for posting