Army Ants vs Big-Headed Ants in the Amazon Rainforest
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4 жыл бұрынIn this video a swarm of army ants go to battle with big-headed ants at Finca Las Piedras, the ASA's research and education center in the Peruvian Amazon.
The army ants' goal is to capture larvae to feed their hungry colony, but the big-headed ants won't let them go without a fight. Who will prevail? Watch the video to find out!
Finca Las Piedras is located in Peru's Madre de Dios region, in the country's southeastern Amazon rainforest, a global biodiversity hotspot that is home to more species of plants and animals than almost anywhere else on Earth. From ants to other insects and a dizzying variety of other lifeforms, there is always drama unfolding all around here if you only look closely.
@JTJSSG 3 жыл бұрын
This proves that ants are coordinated and majors are brave soliders
@mordekaiser328 3 жыл бұрын
props to the majors for helping the colony
@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 3 жыл бұрын
Yes. They even gave a good fight to much larger army ants and killed some of them. Impressive thing is big headed ants don't have stinger. They fight just with mouth unlike the cowardly army ants dependent on stinger and huge number.
@LostInTheFarmersMarket 3 жыл бұрын
@@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 No offense, but that last bit is a pretty dumb statement. Using sheer numbers is a incredibly normal tactic for insects, having a bite and a stinger is also very common. There is nothing cowardly about any of that.
@nagaeiku 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly, army ants use sheer numbers to overwhelm their enemies so I don't understand how is it cowardly, though there are other species of ants who do the same. Solenopsis Invicta (Red imported fire ants) and linepithema humile (Argentine ants) are great examples
@flatland_ants3153 2 жыл бұрын
@@LostInTheFarmersMarket it's fine guys have some humor
@flatland_ants3153 2 жыл бұрын
@@nagaeiku it's alright I don't think he was serious have some humor
@bloodhunter4628 3 жыл бұрын
2:11 anyone else see the badass big headed worker that managed to grab a pupa from the army’s pile?
@user-and-id 3 жыл бұрын
That deserves a medal
@polibot1 3 жыл бұрын
Really cool! I've observed Pheidole morissi in central florida evacuating their nests the same way when fire ants come and attack. It must be something common in the pheidole group of ants.
@dejeuxx 3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like it!
@TankieBoi Жыл бұрын
it's interesting that the army ants don't really seem to know how to fight back against the majors, despite being significantly larger, they just use sheer numbers
@bomboclaat1509 Жыл бұрын
I love how quick ants are. Such an intelligent animal. It's actually so fascinating to watch them do almost anything lol.
@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 3 жыл бұрын
Unfair fight. Because big head ants live in small colonies and also size is smaller neither do they have stinger and acid spray. But it was impressive to see how soldier pheidoles gave a fight to much bigger stinging army ants so that the workers can go away with eggs and queen. Brave little ants pheidoles are. They are one of the favourite ants of mine.
@lunaticranger6532 3 жыл бұрын
Big headed ants are more adaptive for this type of invasion and against army ants every fight is unfair.
@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 3 жыл бұрын
@@lunaticranger6532 I think driver ants will be fair. They live in very large number and kill anything that crosses their path. Drivers Vs army ants will be fair.
@lunaticranger6532 3 жыл бұрын
@@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 yes usually this kind of fight are draw.
@radiodemon9202 3 жыл бұрын
@@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 the driver ant is another type of army ant:/
@radiodemon9202 3 жыл бұрын
Most people call it the Africa army ant
@IsoyaYasuji 3 жыл бұрын
Bruh, this is almost as good as the national geo tv series! Keep up the good work!
@dejeuxx 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@vxrtuality 3 жыл бұрын
I’ve been waiting for this video thanks man
@sthao1733 3 жыл бұрын
confirmed. i had always wondered if army ants attacked other ant species colonies when they foraged. its interesting to see army ants attacking these big headed ants. whats even more interesting is i saw a video where an army ant colony run into a leaf cutter colony but neither colonies fought each other. i guess its much smarter and easier to attack a smaller ant species colony.
@allianceforasustainableama4749 3 жыл бұрын
Though army ants are often portrayed as devouring everything in their path, most are actually quite picky. The ones in this video prey on the larvae of other ants, and also vespid wasps, one of their favorites. Full size leaf cutter ant colonies, with hundreds of thousands of massive majors are immune to attack from just about everything...except one species of army ant, Nomamyrmex esenbeckii, which appears to specialize in raiding leaf cutter ant colonies. The workers are built like little tanks to stand up to the leafcutters slicing jaws. Most of the action in such a raid would occur underground so I don't believe this has been filmed.
@derrickhageman1969 Жыл бұрын
@@allianceforasustainableama4749hmm it seems that everything in nature has one thing to counter another thing also sometimes turtle ants get attacked by army ants but they are too heavily armored for the army ants
@felixbuenjr.1624 3 жыл бұрын
Army ants for sure will never mess up with the fire ants...
@wildlifeisthewealthofnatur5457 3 жыл бұрын
Do you realize that army ants are in millions while fire ants are in thousands to lakhs. And the soldiers of army ants are ferocious who can even kill soldiers of fire ants. Fire ants are not that invincible as you people think. Many ants have easily warded off their raids and even the smaller stingless much less numerous aenictus army ants of Asia have successfully raided fire ants. While pheidole megacephala(who have neither stinger nor acid spray) and black tapinoma ants have displaced them from some parts.
@dinoT_T 3 жыл бұрын
Army ants can reach 500-700 thousand in population while fire ants can only reach 200 thousand - 500 thousand
@bigmoose7 3 жыл бұрын
@@dinoT_TTropical fire ants can reach from 7 million to 40 million individuals but a few million is more average, army ants it depends on the species.
@tinirafi 3 жыл бұрын
Size doesn't matter what matters is your size of your army
@dejeuxx 3 жыл бұрын
True!
@-_-urworstnightmare-_-8063 4 жыл бұрын
Awesome vid.
@allianceforasustainableama4749 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
@dudley0826 2 жыл бұрын
Eciton hamatum, specialized in preying on other ants. Great video. Have you ever seen E. Rapax?
@terrencejackson914 3 жыл бұрын
Nice video could have been longer, and showed more ants and action.
@dejeuxx 3 жыл бұрын
We're working on it, stay tuned for more videos!
@NKVD_Enjoyer 11 ай бұрын
Thats crazy, the big headed ants fought brave. I recently saw a big head ant major vs a giant termite fight and the termite won what made me sad but seeems like the big heads work faar beter in groups.
@ZenoSamaOmniKing Ай бұрын
which species of pheiodle
@jesper112183 Жыл бұрын
As you can see from the footage, even minor workers will fight to their death to protect the colony
@cannonf_odder3041 3 жыл бұрын
It was unclear whether the queen of the big headed ants made it out alive then again Big headed ants(pheidole species) are usually polygenous so they should have more than 1 queen
@allianceforasustainableama4749 3 жыл бұрын
I think that the queens would have been fine. I imagine additional majors underground would fall back(sacrificing a few rooms of larvae in some instances) to prevent the whole colony from being overrun. In any case the army ants raid the area fairly frequently so it might be in their best interest not to kill the colonies they feed on.
@ANTASIA_07 Жыл бұрын
This is exactly like if weaver ants attack Carebara diversa but Majors of Carebara are slow in attacking and defending unlike phediole
@Goofybug 3 жыл бұрын
1:18 a winged ant came out
@radiodemon9202 3 жыл бұрын
A drone it’s a male ant sadly not a queen a late but they are both very useful
@ghostoperationswithcheukgu9844 3 жыл бұрын
These army ants are new world army ants in the old world we have asked that can literally strip a horse to the Bone and can eat a baby alive
@reiadhoti3297 3 жыл бұрын
Army ants are my favourite ants
@lunaticranger6532 3 жыл бұрын
Nice video a rare sight.
@frankfrastein2244 2 жыл бұрын
That's one nice battle. Have you ever seen army ants trying to raid fire ants or leafcutter ants?
@user-qv7yf7de8y 19 күн бұрын
no son hormigas cortadoras de ojas son hormigas pheidole pallidula
@chrisrusso4512 2 жыл бұрын
Really? Did the queen make it out?
@skyong3958 4 күн бұрын
And pls say the right name
@amberjac213 3 жыл бұрын
who would win th ough
@JQEm1 3 жыл бұрын
wow cool video
@tomaszzajaczkowski6839 3 жыл бұрын
Amazing video !!!
@allianceforasustainableama4749 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@dejeuxx 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@proviser_d1295 3 жыл бұрын
So u know the bald guy that share with us the ants wooooooowowoowowow
@ghostx141xgaming5 3 жыл бұрын
where is the full war zone
@skyong3958 4 күн бұрын
They are not army ant
@bhartidevi1791 3 жыл бұрын
My friend : no one can beat a colony of army ants Me : give me a flamethrower than...😈
@bhartidevi1791 3 жыл бұрын
True bro But flamethrower has it's own rank
@ffugooglesuxdk9792 Жыл бұрын
HOLD THE LINE!! HHHHOOOOOOOLLLDDDDD THHHHHHEE LIIIIIINNEEEEEEE!
@armanfn2891 3 жыл бұрын
Wer hat jetzt gewonnen
@tetrionactionantadventure5628 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing Evacuation. My Leaf cutter Ants are vegan :)
@EvilNecroid 3 жыл бұрын
hopefully the queen got out
@pedropablomendezdeleon9103 Жыл бұрын
army vs. Big. edead
@bastianriveros1432 3 жыл бұрын
@antscanada look at this brave pheidole ants
@SocialStudiess 3 жыл бұрын
I don't know what was worse. How nasty looking this stuff is, or how big of a dork the narrator is😂😂
@fionanguyen7525 3 жыл бұрын
i saw a male ant helping the majors in the fight
@arelsia-ed1411 3 жыл бұрын
Sriosly man this is ants canada
@hrishikeshs4186 2 жыл бұрын
U copyed antscanada
@ffugooglesuxdk9792 Жыл бұрын
men, women, zes. we fight this day, in the name of honor and GLORRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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