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[Inquisitor Saturn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQERRbU23bU

Pardon if this has been posted before(I couldn't find anything with search). The scale and complexity of this ant colony is breathtaking, and reminded me greatly of Dwarf Fortress. I thought you all might enjoy it, too.
Features underground farms, refuse stockpiles, and a ventilation system.

[Onlyhestands]

I'm not surprised. An ant colony (or termite or bees for that matter) is much more intelligent than the sum of its parts.

[BradB]

The wallspace next to my computer was probably full of as many ants as that "fortress" holds.

Today, after spraying some ants that were going into cracks outside I played a game of checkers. A few moves into the game I looked over at the computer. The wall next to it was covered in several thousand ants! The spraying on the outside wall must have stirred up the WHOLE nest inside the wall cavity, and made them all rush out through cracks in the other side of the wall (next to my computer). The ants moved extremely quickly too, the whole lot of them must have poured out in under one minute.
Many of the ants were carrying white egg larvae things too. Yuck.

Much spraying, brushing, and then vaccuming was done, as most of the ants stuck stubbornly to the wall when they died.

The ant corpses inside the vaccum's container would add up to 1/2 a cup at a rough estimate.

[Foa]

Also Inqisitor, that is a giant positive mold of a giant ant colony.
I don't think it wouldn't be common for colonies to meld.

[Inquisitor Saturn]

Also Inqisitor, that is a giant positive mold of a giant ant colony.

Well yeah. I watched the video.

[sonerohi]

Brad, thats disguisting dude.

This'd be sooo cool to play around with though. Train black ants and red ants to fight each other, and then start two small colonies of each inside a complex like that on opposite ends. Limit them to a certain area through whatever means, and watch the combat.

[Mashirafen]

Then drown them all.

[SHAD0Wdump]

PETA will rip your lungs out.

[JoshuaFH]

thats a really cool story Brad. If i had to guess, and lord knows i'm not an ant expert, i'd say that the ants were carrying their larva because they were 'abandoning ship', fleeing their home and probably planning to move elsewhere in a hurry. i sorta feel sorry for them, but i guess i'm just overly empathetic.

[Spey]

PETA will rip your lungs out.

ants arent animals, so its out of their juristicion.

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

PETA will rip your lungs out.

WE will reep PETA lung's out first!

DO THAT FOR SCIENCE! Record that and post it on youtube! Who didn't like war? Those who didn't are not man!

[Inquisitor Saturn]

He'll have hundreds of ant corpses to throw at PETA, he'll be alright.

[Pilsu]

ants arent cute, so its out of their juristicion.

Fixed


Bit of an asshole move to fill someone's city with cement, killing billions

What if ants develop in the same direction we do? They're fairly dominant in their own niche of the ecosystem and have learned to farm. It's only a matter of time before we start seeing crude statues of their queen

[cowofdoom78963]

and sacrafice one of their babys to us every first sun in exchange for not getting burned by our lenses

[Neoskel]

This'd be sooo cool to play around with though. Train black ants and red ants to fight each other, and then start two small colonies of each inside a complex like that on opposite ends. Limit them to a certain area through whatever means, and watch the combat.

No need for training, ants will totally go to war without prompting.