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[Draco18s]

...wasn't this posted before?

[numerobis]

It's sufficiently awesome to get posted repeatedly.

[Jude]

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?

Then we're screwed in a couple billion years, on the off chance we still exist

[BradB]

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.

Yes, I think they were jumping ship. They got out of that wall bloody fast.

[Pilsu]

Then we're screwed in a couple billion years, on the off chance we still exist

Ants are helpless against the almighty boot

Seems they're attracted to the smell of their dead. Bastards always try to climb up my feet when I'm sitting outside and when I curb stomp the assholes, more show up to fuck the corpses. Damn I hate the bastards, can't go outside without shoes because of them or lie down in the grass. At least they don't come inside, I'd salt every nest within miles if they did

[cowofdoom78963]

Then we're screwed in a couple billion years, on the off chance we still exist

when I curb stomp the assholes, more show up to fuck the corpses. Damn I hate the bastards

Oh my gosh their already as smart as dwarves!

[Arkose]

Ants actually recover their dead and bring them to "ant graveyards". They make little mounds of their dead away from their nests and food scavanging areas, presumably for sanitation reasons.

In summary, ants:
-haul their dead to designated graveyard sites
-do not like miasma in their homes and worksites
-dig greedily, and deep

[cowofdoom78963]

I thought ants ate their dead...
Their far more civilized then I thought.

Hmm

[sonerohi]

They've ascended from the rank of Elves to Goblins. Let us pray they do not surpass Human and reach Dwarfhood.

[Skanky]

...wasn't this posted before?

If that was a serious inquiry, then yes.

If not:

Pardon if this has been posted before(I couldn't find anything with search).

[Dae]

It's a shame IMO. What these ants had done was truly magnificient.  It probably took years to get to this level.
And some scientists destroy all of this just to see how good it was. What kind of scientist destroys his study subject ? Couldn't they just use the sort of scanner they use to study ancient temples instead of destroying a city this huge ?
And I must say I'm not happy with the way most people react when they see these images. They seem to find it's normal to destroy such a wonder just so as to get 4:53 minutes to broadcast. WTF ?

I'm not an ant protection activist or anything this sort, but I respect efforts made by other living beings. Destroying that colony, even not considering the fact billions of its citizens were killed, isn't respectful towards all who spent their life building it.

By the way, ants can move, act on their own, eat and reproduce, so they are animals. But they're quite amazing. They communicate, build graveyards, nurseries, practice agriculture, breeding, childcare, flood control and heal their wounded.
There are some books written by Bernard Werber, like "Empire of the ants". Read them and you'll discover how complex ant societies are.

[Tormy]

...wasn't this posted before?

It was. 

[Styrre]

As long as they don't build elaborate lava death traps, they're not intelligent in my book.

[i are not good with compu]

stuff

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

Which is why you see a massive torrent of confused and angry ants, right? Heh. The ant colony was apparently abandoned beforehand. 

Now, that ventilation system thing is awesome - it would be nice if fungal gardens in DF worked like ant ones.

[inaluct]

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.

GENOCIDE!!