Who need Game of Thrones while you can just watch ants.

An ant's life is so dramatic, it could be a tv series.

*slug thinking he won* *Ants with soil* Slug: “why do I hear boss music?”

I feel there's one guy who's job is only to stir Lasagne to make all the 'squelching ants' sound for the entire series.

Despite them being such simple creatures at their core, Ants are some of the most amazing insects out there. They can perform agriculture, keep livestock, work in symbiosis with countless other species of insect, wage wars, establish borders... and even adapt to handle almost anything they come across. And yet I still get surprised, I had no idea that some species produce "Kings", or that some ants can revolt against unsatisfactory queens. Billions of these tiny, simple insects working together to perform such complex and almost humanlike tasks, and they're so tiny that this happens all around us without us even noticing. (Or them really noticing us!)

“Ants keep slugs alive” *ants proceed to absolutely annihilate the slug...*

Larvae: What’s for dinner, Mum..? Worker Ant : yes exactly.

In case you are wondering, they do not always eat the eggs they loot from the defeated nest. Some species of ants carry them home and raise them. You could say "as their own", but it's more like "as slaves". Sometimes ants are so human it's frightening.

That stuff with the dirt and the slug was wayyyy to smart 😬 we're so lucky these things are tiny 😅

Litteraly anything : *exists* Ants : N U T R I E N T S

The ants putting dirt on the slug shows a level of problem-solving skills that I would NEVER have expected from them!!! This had to come from a single ant getting an idea to use something to soak up that slime, and either knew dirt was good for the job, or experimented until they found the right material. That, or some saw the benefit of it having happened by accident, understood what had happened well enough to want to employ that method again (which also shows planning ahead), and reproduced the conditions. Either way, that is some kind of impressive behavior for such a small-brained creature. So wild... wow!

Nobody- Ant in your backyard- "Execute Order 66"

I'd like to give a moment of silence for the camera man who had to shrink himself to record the footage

So let me get this straight A male got attracted by the queen's "smell" Followed it Got ambushed Had to "John wick" his wings to shed weight to boink And then boinks And then... Dies. Okay.

Queen: *farts* oopsie Male ant: *INHALES* it's go time

The final attack felt like a scene from Game of Thrones...cold

'His job done, he retires from the royal chamber, and dies.'

Ant Eggs: The Forbidden Rice

The male ant be like: ‘I like ‘em big, I like ‘em CHUNKY’

These ants smarter than my co workers

The French: decapitate the king Ants : Oui

so when an ant queen get bored ,she decide to create an army ,cool trick

Ants have always fascinated me. I knew they were smart but I never expected to see problem solving with the slug.

Well done Antman. I knew you would be a great cameraman.

Ants are fascinating man

Then some guys pour molten aluminum into the soil and transform the entire ant emperor into a valuable work of art.

He can say it in a way that gets you in at first then gets you deeper and deeper the more you watch. And he always has the perfect thing to say for every scene

Humans: so what’s it like to be an ant? Ant: ever play Warhammer 40k? Humans: yeah? Ant: yeah.

Great now I feel like ants are crawling on my body.

The slug getting eaten was crazy

Question: How do you get these amazingly well-focused shots without disturbing the ant colonies?

We really need to thank Hank Pym for making this footage possible.

Editor: How much sound effects do you want to use Director: YES....

Man this guy is good. I felt horrified when he described them being annihilated. “The once great ruler torn apart” lol.

"They take everything, including new borns." Ant: I'll be taking this, yoink!

20:00 “Leave me here go on- make the coral proud....”

That male ant in the fourth one was an absolute unit. LMAO.

Slug:aaaahhhhh!!! The cameraman:most intresting

I searched “ants” and this was the first result

Ants literally have empires and fight wars... this is so amazing

Imagine having your body parts ripped off and eaten and then dying just to get some...you know

Me: Finds this entertaining Me when ants are in my house: Do you know what are the consequences?

These clips are fascinating, and somewhat creepy in parts. But I've learned to thoroughly appreciate them over the last couple of years. There's a channel called Ants Canada and the guy whose channel it is, is a real expert in the subject. He raises colonies from a single queen. Those first eggs (in the first video) become "nanitics", and they're smaller and shorter-lived than the future generations. But they're the ones raised by the queen, who turns the muscle tissue from where her wings were attached into a sort of soup for the larvae. She won't eat anything until the nanitics can fetch food themselves. The channel's owner is so dedicated to ants that he's having a house built with a two-storey "ant room" in it! If you like ants, I thoroughly recommend you go watch him.

Ant raider: RAID STEAL THE GOLD Ants:NO OUR GOLD Me:so eggs are gold so its basically a bank robbery

I just can't imagine the amount of hardwork and time is implemented in each of the videos... Speechless..........

5:39 you can say he .... ‘came and went’ 😂😂

Great video. Complete ant life cycle:- Ant worker, eggs, queen, bee, ant battle field, looting, fighting. 👍👌👏

I always wonder how they get cameras into these spaces. Truly the best filming.

After that ending, all I hear is... And now the rains, weep o'er his halls, with not a soul to hear....

Who knew ants could have wars We will call it “ *THE GREAT ANT WAR* “

After seeing how ants can be, I now have a deep respect for anteaters

Thanks for the camera-ant the helped making this masterpiece!

just imagine all the ant battles going on around the world right at this very moment.

This is insane - brilliant - kind of disturbing - better than any horror movie

Queen Ant: Im the one charge! You will listen to me! Daughter Ant: You "were" in charge! Past tense! My time for Queen is now! Matricide!

0:32 Baby Ants: "Who you calling a pinhead"

video title: "best of ants" me, an ant fenatic: *immediantly clicks*

I won't deny that as fascinating as they are, I felt a sudden impulsive desire to "Raid" that whole colony when they were barbequing that poor slug.

Stunning footage as always!

I once encountered an ant war between larger brown ants and smaller brown ants, it’s so brutal as the smaller ants fought courageously to fend off the invaders, but to no avail. They were rooted out from their nest and dismembered, with heads and limbs littering the ground around the nest. It’s sad to watch but that’s nature. Another thing is spiders waylaying underneath pebbles along the ant path; the spiders would dash out and rapidly tie the victim ant up with silk into a bundle…

Little do majority of the people watching this emphasise just how long they've had to spend when watching them lay and Grow then hatch months of photographic supervision

Who else felt sorry for that slug? Brutal!

I don't know about you man but if I just pulled off one of my wings I wouldn't really feel like sex. I be like "owww...don't feel too good, might have to make it tomorrow sweetie."

So well shot and wonderful voiceover

2:39 “male *and* pulls off own wing” 🤣🤣

Ant queen belong to the streets

I get a little itchy watching these ant videos but I can't stop either.

Oh hell yeah this is the content I've been waiting for

The sound of the slug being eaten was revolting😵😫

Ants are hard working and adorable.

ay hat's off to the ant that holds the camera for the whole video. and other ants be like thanks mate

Amazing footage! Bravo to the patient camera man for documenting these amazing images !

Team work divides the task And multiplies the success

Salute to the tiny cameraman who went in there to film this! Or maybe they are human-sized ants

god i luv this 'they empty chamber after chamber' with that heremy iron british accent is top notch

What a movie, wow the story was great, their acting was very good, the fight scenes vfx are best, wow such a great movie I watched.

Just to remember, these things were so big millions years ago

12:51Long live the queen... THIS IS GROSE MAN. *It's own larvae feeding on the corpse of its mother. What an offspring*

So beautiful

While watching this I am constantly watching around

KZfaq: hey wanna watch some ants Me: nah Im good Im about to go to slee- KZfaq: its the best of ants! Me: WHOA NOW THATS INTERESTING I NEED TO WATCH THAT NOW

That slug got absolutely annihilated holy shit

I'm really amazed how their mic got the sounds of the ants 😳

THIS IS AMAZING

how clean and tidy these animals are.. beautiful pictures BBC!

I love how the Xenomorphs are based on ants

Narrator : Ants Keep Slugs Alice Ants : *Literally Eats The Slug by Earth And Mandables*

What a lovely ant

Amazing how all the Queens dont attack each other for dominance and control

The decapitated Queen reminds me of the assassination of Julius Caesar

This is mind blowing

Entire videos are amazing

That is exactly what I needed in these awful times

Can we all give respect to the camera crew? They can literally do anything.

Love animal documentaries shows that even small living things can still conduct wars and have a hierarchy system

Thanks 😊 BBC Earth 🌎 🙏 ...

This video made me antsy👀

What do you call an ant that won't go away? PermanANT

Interesting ants' life. Good narrator gave life to ants' story.

Great work !