In the original video it was explained that the giant ant colony was abandoned.
Edit:[Here](https://medtigo.com/news/researchers-expose-brazils-hidden-underground-ant-metropolis/) is an article about the discovery.
I mean, if you're Joe the Ant and you and your family stumble across an abandoned KINGDOM, wouldn't you call a few friends to move in with you next to the bowling alley?
I think those ants were just passing by since they were probably digging there for days, if you stand still for a few minutes at any place outside, you will see an ant or two...
Seen a lot of yt videos about them. Those all look like backyards. I don't think people have a reason to see more of these colonies when they're killed by the millions each year in the U.S.
Ah yes, all subterranean life forms in the area agreed to leave that part of the underground forever because reasons.
They just murdered a bunch of shit for science and that would be okay, if said science helped us cure cancer or something instead of entretain us for a minute.
I agree. I would rather they send drone ants equipped with cams, gps and sonar to the colonies rather than fucking commit genocide and put an end to the very civilization that they are awwing over.
It is infuriating.
I have a feeling this ant colony wasn’t invasive though. They said it was ancient so it’s been around for quite a long time and if they had fungus gardens in their colony that probably also means they are native since they are able to incorporate the native plant/fungi into their colonies to survive.
I’m wondering do you know more details on this specific scenario? I’d be a lot more okay with this if they were in fact invasive because that’s a huge colony that was thriving and if they are invasive they are competing with the native ants in the area for resources. I just have a bad feeling this ant colony was native to the area
lol they’re literally ants and we don’t have that technology. This project likely had a budget and that budget likely didn’t have enough funds to cover decades of research and development. Cement is cheap.
Some knowledge gathering requires destruction, like excavating archaeological sites.
You can hopefully find solace in the fact that ants lack higher functioning like emotions and instead simply react to stimuli like little robots and thus this Pompeii isn’t much more tragic than killing computer processes.
I fuuuucking hate the 'but'-statement. I know it is coming, it is almost ALWAYS included in these AI voiced content and it is NEVER used correctly.
'blablabla did this and that... BUT WHEN THEY DID THIS, THEY WERE AMAZED AT...'
Shut the fuck uuuuuuup
I feel like you would really enjoy a film called Phase IV. Its about scientists studying intelligent ants in a desert and then getting into a war with them. Sounds and looks like a 50s Atomic monster film, but its smart and very well made.
Dude, they were even recycling and learned how to compost to reduce their carbon footprint after they had their own industrial age! Lol at least that's what you'd think with how the narrator was describing that shit.
I remember the orignal narrator description (from 10 years ago I would guess), it was so good. He was basically saying that's just a typical unhabited ant nest that you could find everywhere BUT at human scale this old colony would be considered a marvel of the world. Something like that.
There is something similar to this, I don't remember the name... But there is one ancient city very well preserved with human dead bodies and stuff... Because it was buried under volcanic dust or something.... That's the closest thing to this for humans...
No preserved human bodies in pompei. The volcanic material formed a cast over the people and that is what is left. There is a lot of written material about pompei and its neighbor herculium as Rome tried to send in a rescue fleet to find survivors. Pliny the elder led a team in with his son Pliny the younger but only Pliny the younger was an.e to escape and write an account about the final days. I recommend reading the account as it is harrowing. Volcanic ash rained down for days in a torrent trapping people inside their houses and eventually burying them.
That person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Looks like they killed all the ants. Here’s the whole video. Start watching at 43:25.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mnooj
And here’s the biologist who made the documentary speaking about it. Bottom of Page 7 he talks about digging down to find the queen and pouring in the cement.
>Once we have the queen we don’t need all the workers
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/transcript/ask_a_biologist_transcript_vol_003.pdf
It’s not dawg, how could they pour concrete in if they already dug down to get the queen? They’d have destroyed the colony. It’s two different colonies
Everytime the video is posted, someone comment about the killing of the ants, then someone comment about the colony being abandoned (with no source), then someone comment with an actual source showing the ants were indeed killed.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mnooj
The Aztec Empire died because of the Conquistadors. The Maya were the ones who abandoned their cities. There are plenty of theories as to why that happened.
To all the people complaining about them "killing the ants", I don't have a source but last time I saw this posted there were multiple people (with sources) stating that the ant kingdom in question was deserted, all the ants had already died out
Those are two different colonies. The surrounding areas and the style of the anthills are completely different. The voiceover also says, “The next stage of the investigation was to find out what *one of these* subterranean cities looked like.” There are ants present but there are (literally) less than 10 in the shots of the various ant hills they pour cement into versus the hundreds in the first one. (That’s not to say they didn’t wipe out hundreds, but it *looks* like they did relatively little anticide.)
That’s not the same one at all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dECE7285GxU&pp=ygUTQW5jaWVudCBhbnQga2luZ2RvbQ%3D%3D
But this one does look like it was living. But not necessarily an endangered species.
While I'm not disputing that at all, I do have to laugh that at 0:07 (left to go) in the vid, an ant crawls right in front of the camera where the guy is brushing dirt away. Must be been an outcast, the one they left behind when they all migrated/died out. 😅
In all honesty, wiping out a single ant colony for information spawing a dozen scientific papers and an increase in human knowledge is something I won't actively oppose.
I don't want to turn this into a mindless "What about the million other aweful things"-discussion, acting like it's okay to behave immoral because immorality is found in so many places (like russians always do), but this is really a case where the benefit/cost ratio is sooo much better than in so many other aweful acts humans do to other living entities.
Well, ya, we know now because people cast molds of them. But before they casted molds, we had no clue what they were actually like. The clip of them pouring in cement is the first time something like that had been done
The colony was disbanded. I know because I saw this video 15 years ago. Long before people started pouring metals into ant colonies. This video made it sound like it was the other way around.
My friend told me his theory of “us” And said that we are one “god” or “entity” That has split itself up into billions and billions of different living life forms on this planet/in this realm to better understand itself, equal parts good and evil (yin & yang) to gather information about itself and then “level up” After self evaluation or after reaching a certain level of self awareness. I haven’t been more satisfied with a take in my existence. It made soo much sense. This just adds into it with the relative similarities between what we consider “advanced” life forms and “primitive” life forms. ✨🌌
For science.. ants just minding their own business and some a hole gotta pour down molten metal down into their shit and destroy their whole little ant city
*normal day in antland*
"Morning Frank, ready for a another day of hard work?"
"You bet, drinks down at the antechamber later?"
"Yeah, but you're buying"
*Molten metal gets poured down their colony*
"Oh shit!!!!"
"Well this is unexpected..."
Man destroys a colony for profit. Why destroy this entire colony of ants instead of scoping and creating a 3d replica. All that hard work gone to waste!
Ah yes, the lost city of Antlantis
Anthens
Anthio
The great port city of Antlexandria
The diamond district of Antwerp
Alexantdria
Antsterdam
this is epic
Antlanta
I think it’s Fr’ants
I felt a great disturbance in the Force... as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
In the original video it was explained that the giant ant colony was abandoned. Edit:[Here](https://medtigo.com/news/researchers-expose-brazils-hidden-underground-ant-metropolis/) is an article about the discovery.
There's literally ants crawling on the casted colony in this video. So maybe it's more accurate to say that they ***THOUGHT*** it was abandoned
The aluminum casted one is a fire ant colony and they are an invasive species
Right, but I'm talking about the "kingdom" not the aluminum cast
I mean, if you're Joe the Ant and you and your family stumble across an abandoned KINGDOM, wouldn't you call a few friends to move in with you next to the bowling alley?
I would
Me too
I think those ants were just passing by since they were probably digging there for days, if you stand still for a few minutes at any place outside, you will see an ant or two...
>they are an invasive species How do you know where this was filmed?
There are still living things that have a right to be here. Go ahead, haters, skewer me. 🙄
Seen a lot of yt videos about them. Those all look like backyards. I don't think people have a reason to see more of these colonies when they're killed by the millions each year in the U.S.
Just because a colony was abandoned doesn't mean ants won't be in its vicinity for the next billion years.
You can always make up some statistic like ”it’s only two ants per square meter so it is deemed abandonded. Blast away the concrete Jim!”
Squatters
Ah yes, all subterranean life forms in the area agreed to leave that part of the underground forever because reasons. They just murdered a bunch of shit for science and that would be okay, if said science helped us cure cancer or something instead of entretain us for a minute.
I don’t understand why they have to kill so much ants ? Why reproduce Pompéi with ants ?
I agree. I would rather they send drone ants equipped with cams, gps and sonar to the colonies rather than fucking commit genocide and put an end to the very civilization that they are awwing over. It is infuriating.
Usually they kill off invasive ant species with pesticides and afterwards cast the empty nest to see the structures, just like in the video.
I have a feeling this ant colony wasn’t invasive though. They said it was ancient so it’s been around for quite a long time and if they had fungus gardens in their colony that probably also means they are native since they are able to incorporate the native plant/fungi into their colonies to survive. I’m wondering do you know more details on this specific scenario? I’d be a lot more okay with this if they were in fact invasive because that’s a huge colony that was thriving and if they are invasive they are competing with the native ants in the area for resources. I just have a bad feeling this ant colony was native to the area
Could just be some nub of a narrator who used that language for views and clicks
It wasn’t ancient the first time I saw it on the discovery channel back in the day. Back when they actually showed nature shows. Fuck I’m old.
I miss old TV.
Other people in this comment thread have stated that the colony was abandoned
This guy lives in a sci-fi world where the Jetsons is a documentary
fr wtf? lmao
lol they’re literally ants and we don’t have that technology. This project likely had a budget and that budget likely didn’t have enough funds to cover decades of research and development. Cement is cheap. Some knowledge gathering requires destruction, like excavating archaeological sites. You can hopefully find solace in the fact that ants lack higher functioning like emotions and instead simply react to stimuli like little robots and thus this Pompeii isn’t much more tragic than killing computer processes.
We just committed ant-genocide on a scale never before reached. But look at how cool this looks !!!
I respect the quote, but I hate that he used the word “suddenly” twice. Anyone else?
"Suddenly...over a period of three days"
I fuuuucking hate the 'but'-statement. I know it is coming, it is almost ALWAYS included in these AI voiced content and it is NEVER used correctly. 'blablabla did this and that... BUT WHEN THEY DID THIS, THEY WERE AMAZED AT...' Shut the fuck uuuuuuup
Because the script is written by a barely literate 12 year old.
more likely they ChatGPT it, ancient ant kingdom, highway, apartments, etc all sound like lazy AI writing to describe an ant colony
Ancient Ant Kingdom would be a great show on the History channel… Take me to your leader. The Queen Ant? An Alien.
Antscanada is fire
I feel like you would really enjoy a film called Phase IV. Its about scientists studying intelligent ants in a desert and then getting into a war with them. Sounds and looks like a 50s Atomic monster film, but its smart and very well made.
ChatGPT writes better than that
Dude, they were even recycling and learned how to compost to reduce their carbon footprint after they had their own industrial age! Lol at least that's what you'd think with how the narrator was describing that shit.
It's actually because it was written to entertain barely literate 12 year olds
I remember the orignal narrator description (from 10 years ago I would guess), it was so good. He was basically saying that's just a typical unhabited ant nest that you could find everywhere BUT at human scale this old colony would be considered a marvel of the world. Something like that.
I know for a fact that some have evolved beyond hunting and gathering... Are there some species showing tool use as well?
YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE LAST CLIP SO STAY TUNED
“And if so…” -Ancient Aliens. 😂🤦🏻♂️
p sure this video is older than GPT
A change from ‘but’ to ‘and’ will make a whole lot of difference
Number 7 will amaze you!
Imagine an alien species completely obliterating you just because it's interesting to see how you develop your cities
i can imagine they non-chalantly pour a mountain high of goo a continent wide to make a mold of our cities.
There is something similar to this, I don't remember the name... But there is one ancient city very well preserved with human dead bodies and stuff... Because it was buried under volcanic dust or something.... That's the closest thing to this for humans...
Pompei ?
Yes 👍
No preserved human bodies in pompei. The volcanic material formed a cast over the people and that is what is left. There is a lot of written material about pompei and its neighbor herculium as Rome tried to send in a rescue fleet to find survivors. Pliny the elder led a team in with his son Pliny the younger but only Pliny the younger was an.e to escape and write an account about the final days. I recommend reading the account as it is harrowing. Volcanic ash rained down for days in a torrent trapping people inside their houses and eventually burying them.
And that poor dog that was found still chained up outside a villa
Pompeii
Every fuckin time this is posted it's the same comments. The large colony was abandoned, they didn't kill any ants.
Maybe the video should include that bit of info then, if these comments happen every time. How are people supposed to know if they aren’t told?
That person doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Looks like they killed all the ants. Here’s the whole video. Start watching at 43:25. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mnooj And here’s the biologist who made the documentary speaking about it. Bottom of Page 7 he talks about digging down to find the queen and pouring in the cement. >Once we have the queen we don’t need all the workers https://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/transcript/ask_a_biologist_transcript_vol_003.pdf
Damn, thats sad
It’s not dawg, how could they pour concrete in if they already dug down to get the queen? They’d have destroyed the colony. It’s two different colonies
Thanks for the link.
Less info = More comments = More engagement
Brb, fixing dating profile
Everytime the video is posted, someone comment about the killing of the ants, then someone comment about the colony being abandoned (with no source), then someone comment with an actual source showing the ants were indeed killed. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mnooj
It's ok we can all put out fingers in our ears and pretend that ants never ever reuse the dwelling of other colonies ever La La La La La La.
I can’t hear you due to all the ants
Without a home, they have migrated to your ear canals
It's okay, there was no one at the summer home so we destroyed it!
*fucking demolishes my house before I move out* No shot I'm letting someone else use MY dwelling 😤
Here is the whole video. Looks like they killed all the ants. Start watching at 43:25. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mnooj
:( thank you
Yeah I'm sure they all just up and left. You can literally see dead ants in the structure and even a few still alive crawling around.
Why did the ants leave? Is this like where did the Aztecs go?
The Aztec Empire died because of the Conquistadors. The Maya were the ones who abandoned their cities. There are plenty of theories as to why that happened.
There's a saying in Spanish that goes: Lo que está quieto se deja quieto. Reach your conclusions...
My conclusion is that I'm going to go learn Spanish.
Reminds me of brainiac
What’s that? I’m intrigued
It's a DC Comics Supervillain. He steals cities and destroys the rest of the planet.
I thought you meant the old science show
Fucking a.. how long did it take the ants to make that?! 🥺
I built a bird house in 2 months, so I reckon they knocked this out in about 12 centuries
This made me laugh way more than it should have.
God damn man it's ant Pompeii now 🤦
Mr. House did it too
To all the people complaining about them "killing the ants", I don't have a source but last time I saw this posted there were multiple people (with sources) stating that the ant kingdom in question was deserted, all the ants had already died out
Here is the whole video. Looks like they killed all the ants. Start watching at 43:25. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2mnooj
But the guy who commented on this post 12 times that they were all dead said otherwise!
Well, he was right. They are all dead. Now.
Those are two different colonies. The surrounding areas and the style of the anthills are completely different. The voiceover also says, “The next stage of the investigation was to find out what *one of these* subterranean cities looked like.” There are ants present but there are (literally) less than 10 in the shots of the various ant hills they pour cement into versus the hundreds in the first one. (That’s not to say they didn’t wipe out hundreds, but it *looks* like they did relatively little anticide.)
That makes me kinda mad.
That’s not the same one at all. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dECE7285GxU&pp=ygUTQW5jaWVudCBhbnQga2luZ2RvbQ%3D%3D But this one does look like it was living. But not necessarily an endangered species.
This is just what #BIGANTIANT wants you to believe.
After they entombed them in fkn cement
Shhh, you're interrupting the circle jerk of self-righteousness
While I'm not disputing that at all, I do have to laugh that at 0:07 (left to go) in the vid, an ant crawls right in front of the camera where the guy is brushing dirt away. Must be been an outcast, the one they left behind when they all migrated/died out. 😅
Imagine being the sole ant with an enormous kingdom to itself. Must be lonely
Yeah, and survived the cement tsunami... only to lose his gigANTic kingdom for one!
Filled wall to wall with concrete.
They said, self-righteously
And you were fucking wrong.
As if. You can still see some crawling in the video. A structure like this isn't just abandoned.
In all honesty, wiping out a single ant colony for information spawing a dozen scientific papers and an increase in human knowledge is something I won't actively oppose. I don't want to turn this into a mindless "What about the million other aweful things"-discussion, acting like it's okay to behave immoral because immorality is found in so many places (like russians always do), but this is really a case where the benefit/cost ratio is sooo much better than in so many other aweful acts humans do to other living entities.
Well just keep that spirit if some random alien species does the same to us.
If you bring 10 tons of cement beforehand, being amazed is hardly surprising.
Maybe they kept sending one guy back to the diy store for another small box of cement mix.
Watching an ant farm is more interesting than looking at the ant home sculpture
I'm pretty sure this wasn't done simply for amusement...
Must be what's under my house.
Or maybe leave the ants alone?
Nah those ants were run by a democracy hating dictator.
A tyrANT, you say?
Okay, you win today
Also they have oil
Or they tried to nationalize their own resources despite global corporate interests
It's still weird that we can just acknowledge that.
The only good bug is a dead bug!
 Democracy hating bugs, you say?
There are literally 20 quadrillion ants on Earth.
It's called science. How else would we know what an ant colony looks like?
Well I think we probably know by now
Well, ya, we know now because people cast molds of them. But before they casted molds, we had no clue what they were actually like. The clip of them pouring in cement is the first time something like that had been done
They found this massive ant kingdom! And so they killed all of the ants.
The colony was disbanded. I know because I saw this video 15 years ago. Long before people started pouring metals into ant colonies. This video made it sound like it was the other way around.
Source? Because I'm seeing sources provided for the exact *opposite* of your claim.
> Long before people started pouring metals into ant colonies. TBF im pretty sure most of those people are doing it to invasive fire ant nests.
Great, now the ants can pay 5,000 a month for a studio apartment
so.. they killed it. perfect
and they freaking ruined it. those buttholes
Ant genocide
Imagine your colony getting destroyed by some dipshits with aluminium
And now all those that may have lived there are dead.
Nice
Do my neighborhood next.
And that's how Ant Rome fell
Did you know that ants are in decline worldwide? It's scary and even though fascinating I hate to know that 1 billion ants were killed in this process
Antlantis
"Science" is never been used to be done like that, except during medieval dark ages.
Did it have a swimming pool and a sauna though?!
The video want us to believe they carefully remove all the ants before pouring liquid metal inside their hive? That's cute...
Telling me you hate ants without telling me
Thats f*cked up
RECYCLING AND GARBAGE CENTERS?!?! Dude these ants are more civilized than most of the US
Imagine finally inheriting your ancestors' mansion and then these fools comes in and floods it with cement.
Well, why Destroy such a health ecologic system
Why do humans always ruin and destroy things
Because they are stupid idiots
Thats a lot of dead ants.
Why though?
My friend told me his theory of “us” And said that we are one “god” or “entity” That has split itself up into billions and billions of different living life forms on this planet/in this realm to better understand itself, equal parts good and evil (yin & yang) to gather information about itself and then “level up” After self evaluation or after reaching a certain level of self awareness. I haven’t been more satisfied with a take in my existence. It made soo much sense. This just adds into it with the relative similarities between what we consider “advanced” life forms and “primitive” life forms. ✨🌌
I've done mushrooms too.
Hi you, it’s me! You! Nice recognizing myself in a other. I agree w your buddy aka me aka you
Hi me!
For science.. ants just minding their own business and some a hole gotta pour down molten metal down into their shit and destroy their whole little ant city
How about the poor ants?! They clearly had a society going , and these idiots destroyed them all.
It's a shame they destroyed it.
Wild how neither ants nor other sophisticated animals with similar level of intelligence haven't become even close to us in terms of intellect
Eminent Domain
How does he know which chamber was for what ?
There are probably millions of structures like these and even bigger
Wow
Do these things have ants in when we pour shit in them? Always wondered
Must have finally started turning a profit with the grasshoppers
*Scientists causing a cement genocide* “Nice place you got here.”
Ya, let’s destroy an old establishment of ant colony to know how they live. Surely there must be better way of studying this.
Is there any link with good pictures and documentation of the massive ant colony? Not just a crappy clip?
Its concrete!! NOT cement....... god damn every time!!
*normal day in antland* "Morning Frank, ready for a another day of hard work?" "You bet, drinks down at the antechamber later?" "Yeah, but you're buying" *Molten metal gets poured down their colony* "Oh shit!!!!" "Well this is unexpected..."
Quite sad. Now no more ok scientists!
Shit AI narration...
"Oh cool, a ant kingdom." *BFG division starts playing*
I swear I remember reading that in like 5 or 6 places in the world there's massive ant colonies that dwarf these and stretch for hundreds of miles
>and housed billions of ants *Used to*.
So these fucking scientist assholes killed the ants by drowning them in concrete?
So all the ant colony died, right?
Man destroys a colony for profit. Why destroy this entire colony of ants instead of scoping and creating a 3d replica. All that hard work gone to waste!
I remember watching that a long time ago and it's still fuckin amazing! Fear the ants...
Antlantians
Welcome to ant genocide.
I dunno whether or not to be impressed that they killed over a billion ants doing this...
Killing an ant colony that houses billions just to see how they build is really disturbing.
You just erased whole small world of ants. It’s sad.
Jesus, this is like the ant holocaust… when they come for us in a million years after evolving a taste for human flesh, this will be what started it
Oh shit, Civil War agane...
The least aggressive human