Ants Battle to Protect Their Fortress | Life Story | BBC Earth

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Published 2015-09-30

A weaver ant fortress comes under attack from a neighbouring colony but is the home guard enough to defend and protect the next generation? Taken from Life Story.

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All Comments (21)

@bluenosedfish3839 5 years ago

Nursery Guard: 6 legs...6 legs...8 legs...6 le.... WAIT A MINUTE!
@Jacob6443 8 years ago

Ants: Total War.
@dritchieelectrical 3 years ago

Imagine some higher being makes documentaries on our conflicts like this
@rosalievanark4901 4 years ago

Ant looking at jumpingspider: "Meh is also ant hello friend." Ant looking at other ant of the same spieces: "ENEMY AAAAHHH."
@bradkrit 7 years ago

The footage blows my mind. I can't even take a single photo that looks this good, but they can film an entire ant battle scene, including dramatic cliff murder? Damn!
@kappa_kang60 8 years ago

Meanwhile, the spider's probably sitting on another tree, whilst eating a bucket of ant grubs.
@mangomart1342 4 years ago

3:37 Other ant: this is madness Defending ant: THIS IS SPARTA
@bheronz 4 years ago

Guard Ant : Oh hey Jim, haven't seen you for a while. Spider : Uhh yeah, I was busy making a website.
@dapperraptor6161 7 years ago

So caterpillars are ant cows.
@Rain-fw9uq 8 years ago

I had no idea which side was which in this
@raizen7187 4 years ago

"You can't just infiltrate an ant colony with an obvious disguise!' Jumping Spider: Observe
@funny-video-YouTube-channel 3 years ago

The ant history is like a perpetual war with itself.
@varunjoshi2417 6 years ago

3:17 NOPE NOPE NOPE!!
@WarriorBazooka 6 years ago

3:34 "Brother, help me!" "Long live the king!"
@rustybulletstmm 4 years ago

Me: Enjoying a nice coffee in the morning. Meanwhile the equivalence of a nuclear war is happening in a random rainforest.
@TheMoviemaker98 4 years ago

Spider walks in to ant nursery: um I'm here from the department a just a floor above Nursery ants: oh you must be the new intern, make yourself at home
@EdoDave 8 years ago

Spider: "Yup, totally an ant here. I definitely don't have 8 legs, only got 6 here... look at my marvelous eyes of mine..." <_< . . .>_>
@zacharykrawczyk3942 7 years ago

I was very disappointed that they didn't edit in a wilhelm scream
@A7xFo 4 years ago

"Humans could learn to live in peace like other creatures on the planet." Oh wait...
@scptime1188 3 years ago

Cane here from Kurzgesagt. Weaver ants are cool.