Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle

A flood hits a fire ant colony in the Amazon jungle. An amazing chance to see footage on how the species has adapted to water to protect their queen. From the BBC. LINK: Youtube

Auduino Antfarm

Ants walking through IR gates manipulate the Auduino synth program. LINK: Youtube

The Most Painful Animal Bite on Earth

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Remember how whiny you were when your parents made you get a job or mow the lawn or whatever it was you had to do to “become a man/woman?” Feel like a sissy looking back on how “hard” you had it then? If not, you will.

The Setere-Mawe people of Brazil have found something far worse (albeit less humiliating) than your first job at McDonald’s.

Meet the bullet ant. So named because those unfortunate enough to have been stung by one compare it to a gunshot wound – very unfortunate people; apparently, they have also all been shot. It reportedly has the most painful sting of any insect on Earth.

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Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle - BBC wildlife

A flood hits a fire ant colony in the Amazon jungle. An amazing chance to see footage on how the species has adapted to water to protect their queen. LINK: Youtube

Ants' Metropolis

You have to see it to believe it - what scientist uncovered when they filled ant's tunnels with cement... The structure that simply boggles the mind. (this is an episode from "Ants! Nature's Secret Power". LINK: Youtube

Excavating A Huge Ant's Nest

It is quite amazing how intelligent these creatures are. But are you really so surprised? Are we, as human beings, an ant colony to some greater civilization, being studied for science and research? LINK, Via: Youtube