When did you realize Ant society is far more complex than we know

for the record, these moldings are made with molten metal or concrete

The first time I saw the movie Antz probly

who fuckin cares lol

>>19518341
They can pass the mirror test.

>>19518341
Ants are just mini commies

Read their minds, and squabbles are as big as they are and queens are incapable of making friend groups larger than 4 or 5 queens, and mostly look at each other akin to other tribal leaders, making society completely incapable of happening.

>>19518394
>society completely incapable of happening.
>ants
You are retarded

When I saw that they had agriculture and husbandry.

>>19518341
Middle school when we read a story called "Leiningen Versus the Ants" about african thumb-sized ants that destroy everything and act like a single massive organism

>>19518461
They do grow fungus and other little edibles for themselves, don't they?

When I realized that Jason Chaffetz looks like the main ant in the movie ANTZ

>>19518485
Some species do.
There's other species that keep... some kind of aphids or something as livestock.

>>19518341
Does it freak anybody else out? I mean these are intelligent creatures that could screw us over if they were a little bigger. Fuck a bear attack, what about a coordinated ant colony attack?

>>19518531
they don't even need to be bigger, army ants already do this. i had a teacher once who spent a few years in africa and had some creepy stories about them. giant columns of ants that just eat shit thats in their way while they march.

>>19518547
Even the tiny ones do some crazy shit.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2ZysgGAABw

ew they are so fucking smart its disgusting
so are spiders

>>19518551
That's incredible and horrifying.

How did Nation Geographic get those shots, though?

>>19518575
I wish I knew how they got their shots.
Ants get even weirder than that, though.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvIFO9srUw

>Ants take slaves.
>They wage war on their rivals.
>They make structures.
>They take their sick far away to die out in the open.

Gives me the creeps...

>>19518350
>molten concrete

Really gets that noggin joggin'

>>19518586
Jesus Christ. I'm more impressed with the humans who wear ant gloves twenty times in life. Tribals are hardcore.

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>>19518394
Hold on a sec. why is that a bad thing ,i mean ant's don't really have "bad ant's" soooo in theory the idea should work fine for them.

BTW I hate red's i love the God Emporer.

>>19518615
Yeah, retards are pretty tough. Strong, too.

Every sink hole in America was made by Ant saboteurs. The threat is much more real than you imagine.

>>19518341
The real question is when will they develop frontal lobes and strategize warfare. Ants lifespans are short so they evolve far quicker

>>19518524
>i got 6 types of ant in my yard that keep aphids as cattle
>they herd them on leaves and under rocks

green ants, honey ants, bull ants, odour ants, black ants and meat ants.

When I watched Phase IV as a child and was terrified of our ant overlords

>>19518586
>>19518551
fucking ants

>>19519543
Thats pretty cool. I like to go outside and feed our whatever scraps we have. little black ants.

Proof of intelligent design right here

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>>19519596
Honestly, what points in that direction? The fact that there is more for us to understand?
I personally see no cosmic patterns with this stuff. Just ants being ants.
How does this prove God or Intelligent Design any more than a dog chasing it's tail?

>>19519640
By the way you've postulated your comment, I see no benefit in even attempting a dialogue.

You seem to be just an amateur dunning kruger ridden average joe.

It would be the equivalent of trying to explain things to an illiterate medieval paesant

ants, bees and octopus are three of the most amazing and intelligent species on earth.

no one talks about this. value them....bees especially

Can you imagine an alien species of advanced ants invading our planet? We would be so fucked

>>19518556
I know this feel so much.

>>19519648
OK Mr. Ego

>>19519596
well that hive was literally designed by intelligent creatures. so yeah

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Oh man....
We are going to miss the bees.

>>19518341
Ants farming lice:
>Some species of ants farm aphids, protecting them on the plants they eat, eating the honeydew the aphids release from the terminations of their alimentary canals. This is a mutualistic relationship. These dairying ants milk the aphids by stroking them with their antennae.[Note 1][22]

>Some farming ant species gather and store the aphid eggs in their nests over the winter. In the spring, the ants carry the newly hatched aphids back to the plants. Some species of dairying ants (such as the European yellow meadow ant, Lasius flavus)[23] manage large herds of aphids that feed on roots of plants in the ant colony. Queens leaving to start a new colony take an aphid egg to found a new herd of underground aphids in the new colony. These farming ants protect the aphids by fighting off aphid predators.[22]

>>19518341
Fungus growing ants:
>Fungus-growing ants actively propagate, nurture and defend the basidiomycete cultivar.[3] In return, the fungus provides nutrients for the ants, which may accumulate in specialized hyphal-tips known as "gongylidia". In some advanced genera the queen ant may take a pellet of the fungus with her when she leaves to start a new colony.[4]

>>19519782
>>19519786

Ants are capable of agriculture and livestock hording. Fuck sakes.

>>19518862
The final redpill

>>19518524
>aphids

They 'milk' them like cows.

>>19519782
>>19519786

NOPE

>>19519782
>>19519786
It won't be long now

>>19519772
This makes me angry and sad at once

>>19518603
You know the adj. Doesn't necessarily apply after an or.

>>19518482
You just brought back a childhood memory. Better times man.

>>19519559
>Phase IV
Kek. Was trying to think of the name of this flick as I scrolled through the thread. Scared the fuck out of me too.

>>19518341
when i watched chinese rekt webms.

>>19519648
Your arguments have no base, therefore you fear the ridicule to be recieved upon presentation. If you truly had proof of God, more than faith that is, there wouldn't even be an argument. Instead, since you know you lack true perception as all humans do, you cower behind the straw man argument that others are below your alleged intellectual capacity. Aside from this, if you are as intelligent as you presume, you would be able to explain your logic and reasoning to even a true fool. You, sir, are the only creature of base intelligence I am aware of. There is no true and unbiased argument or proof in favor of god. So, fine sir, bite a shotgun barrel and step on the trigger.

>>19518482
Is that the one where they fight them with flamethrowers?

>>19521874
o shit

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>>19518394
>>19518642
>Ants are possibly the single most successful group of animals in Earth's history
>A significant percent of them don't do shit
Capitalism BTFO

>>19518873
A single ant can live for 20 years bro.

>>19521874
Exactly

>>19523452
Fucking NEETS

>>19519800
Dubs confirm!
Agriculture, domestication of livestock, and architecture! That makes ants smarter than niggers.

>>19518366
Keked and checked

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>>19523942
Screw your limited notions of nation. Argentine ants > Fire ants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_ant#Global_.22mega-colony.22
>ants from three Argentine ant supercolonies in America, Europe, and Japan, that were previously thought to be separate, were in fact most likely to be genetically related. The three colonies in question were one in Europe, stretching 6,000 km (3,700 mi) along the Mediterranean coast, the "Californian large" colony, stretching 900 km (560 mi) along the coast of California, and a third on the west coast of Japan.
>They have been extraordinarily successful, in part, because different nests of the introduced Argentine ants seldom attack or compete with each other, unlike most other species of ant. In their introduced range, their genetic makeup is so uniform that individuals from one nest can mingle in a neighboring nest without being attacked. Thus, in most of their introduced range, they form supercolonies.

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>>19524221
To simplify: except for a few "rebel" hives in places like Catalonia and San Francisco - each of those orange spots can be considered one huge ant hive. And the spots on California, Japan, and Southern Europe appear to be the same hive.

Fire ants (at least the species in the US) haven't even made it across the sea yet. Slackers.

>>19524242
kinda like that fungal colony in oregon
didnt realize ants were like this

how is this paranormal, though?

>>19524469
You're not the least bit curious about an intelligence that's ruthlessly efficient and entirely inhuman?

>>19524469
if what is arguably the simplest form of life on earth being this incredibly human isnt fucking spooky then I dont know what to tell you

>>19519653
bees and octopuses are cool.. fuck ants tho

>>19524469
ants build cities, worship deities, and practice constant war

the numbers mason

>>19521874
2reddit4me

>>19518603
yeah, for those who left school after the third grade

>>19518524
Some ants kidnap ants of other species to use as slaves too. They're completely incapable of doing most things for themselves on a genetic level, it's written into their very being to enslave other species to take care of them. Interesting stuff in terms of biology and evolution, though not really paranormal.

>>19519648
>It would be the equivalent of trying to explain things to an illiterate medieval paesant

So exactly like trying to explain anything to a delusional, religious weirdo that yells "INTELLIGENT DESIGN!!!" With absolutely no basis to their claim?

Get a grip, you lunatic.

>>19518586
I took part in a couple of amazonian herbal tea ceremonies this summer and received Kambo three times (poison taken from the back of a frog and applied to the skin through moxibustion) and that shit was intense.
Can't even imagine what these ant-gloves must feel like, but I think I will one day find out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g8h6dpfyXA
thread theme

>>19518482
that was a fucking good story man

>>19524221
Yep, most of chilean posts are just the super colony, including this one, we have deviced ways to trick the mods and the NSA.

FOR THE QUEEN DEATH TO THE UPRIGHT MONKEYS¡¡¡

>>19524881
anyone who completed 3rd grade would understand the implication of writing it that way and would reformat their work to say concrete or molten metal

>>19521874
this is you when you take 4chins seriously

>>19524519
this

>>19518873
>HAIL ANTS
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

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Just a reminder
Ants can carry 100x of their own weight

>>19528871
This is because they're basically living muscles in a modular superorganism known as the colony.

>>19523452
>ants have "artists" too

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I have a weird fetish, i regularly masturbate to ant pics. Sometimes i go outside and cum on them while looking at pics like this

>>19528910
Im american btw

Phase IV

finished watching this movie.

The end is very symbolic...

Has anyone seen it?

is this the Ant pill guys? this thread has exposed me to a lot and I think I need to spend the weekend rethinking stuff?

Ants are cool and all, but I think octopuses are the true threat

>>19527756
>ants can't play cricket
Have we ever tested them?

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FIRE ANTS STRONK,WE DOMINATE NATURE, SACRAFICE YOURSELF FOR MOTHER COLONY

>>19524532
they're all cool you buthole

>>19528950
Cuttlefish.

Is it possible there are even more fucked up animals in the ocean that we haven't discovered?

what if ants are developing biological weapons

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>>19528992

>>19528992
>Animals
>Biological weapons
>Biological...
No they are using artificial mechanical weapons

>>19523952
I'm currently praying for your death, racist scum.

>>19528974
Everything you didn't see or knew about is "fucked up"

>>19523952
Imagine that ants wearing wigs and do dindu stuff while yelling world star and say shit like wewuz antkingz n shit

>>19518873
Meh, until they develop writing, they're pretty limited in what they can learn and how much they can strategize.

>>19528926
well that explains it

>>19518485
Yes they also use the fungus in medical practices. Which is something most people think only humans do

>>19528992
Ants are problem-solvers:

https://www.nasw.org/users/mslong/2009/2009_04/AntForaging.htm
>If typical navigational cues are unavailable, and the ants are unable to return home by the same route from which they came, can they still find their way home, without disrupting the success of foraging? Pedro Ribeiro (University of São Paulo, Brazil) and coworkers have shown that they can, demonstrating basic problem-solving behavior.

Humanity might be the most advanced species on this planet, but ants are the most successful and capable of adapting to survive. If aliens visit Earth one day, they might completely ignore us and try to abduct the ants to take the little fellas on an intergalactic adventure. That'd fuck over humanity's perception of itself good and proper.

>>19529159
But they're not far from full-on hivemind...

As a hivemind population grows, why would writing be necessary? I mean so long as the population is renewed regularly and information is kept redundantly and passed to a young member by the oldest to hold a given bit.

>>19529163
such low effort trolling. you should be ashamed

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>>19521874

Am I the only one that read this comment in an anime voice?

>>19518394

They sound more like mini NatSocs

>>19528961
your sucking up to them isn't going to save you when they take over the world

>>19529615
>aliens will think ants are the dominant species
what movie was this again?

>>19529615
It would fuck over humanity's perception of aliens after we find out how retarded they are for thinking bugs are smart.

>>19518603
Topkek

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>>19521874
>>19519648
>see this in a thread about ants

>implying you can't get rid of backyard ants with a shovel and a fire extinguisher with one to two men

They aren't and never will be a threat untill they develop science. They'd need a whole colony to take one of us down what a joke.

>>19529629
no you do it

>>19519653
What's more interesting in how their intellect is non centralized. Octopodes hold the majority of their intelligent and motor functioning in their tentacles, so one separated from the mantel can function semi intelligently when removed until it is starved of blood. If the severed tentacle is presented food, it will continue to try to feed the main body and will follow other involuntary and voluntary motor functions. Same way a group of bees and ants will, when separated from the hive, continue to follow their base functions to no end without the central intelligence of the queen.
It makes me wonder: what if we are the peak of biologically based intellect on a unit level? What if the next evolution of human intelligence will have us move towards hive mind behavior?

>>19530476
I've unironically thought this before, but imagine the backlash against trying to create and be part of such a mega-being

>>19518642
>Believing a promise from a politician

Is x suddenly going to be studying abts as a past timre now, posting videos of perceived higher intelligence?

>>19519675
would earth ants help us or their alien cousins?

>>19522803
i think that is "them"

>>19529065
nigger

>>19530476
Becoming the Borg is the next step.

>>19519648
>reddit spacing
Every single fucking time

>>19529065
>Asking god for the death of someone for having an opinion different from his.

We'll let you figure out who's worse, buddy...

>>19529615
Yeah, think about it.
We're the only ones that need tools to survive. Our bodies are completely unadapted to the environment we evolved from?? Even the tribes, who are the people who should be more at Harmony with the planet need tools like sandals, knives or spears.
Humanity claims to be the most intelligent, and successful species on the planet but the evidence proves the opposite.

Denial won't change the truth.

>>19519782
>Other ant behaviors are observed are still not understood. Among various species of dairying ants, the workers will tip over the aphids while sleeping and run away.

>>19530648
It wouldn't be the stupidest thing we've ever done. Hell, this isn't even the stupidest thread in the catalog right now

>>19518341
>>19518341
Ants are good people

>>19533706
you know this all this "every opinion is valid/equal" is liberalism and fucking poision right? the other guy did nothing wrong

>>19533739
no don't think about it. our intelligence makes us adapted to pretty much any enviorment imaginable and is probably gonna be recogniced by aliens as superior to an anthill.

>>19535429
You say that now but in the back of your mind you're just as concerned as the rest of us that when aliens arrive they'll ignore us completely in favour of poking ants and they'll leave us alone on our rock without so much as a cursory glance in our direction.

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>>19530207
>It would fuck over humanity's perception of aliens after we find out how retarded they are for thinking bugs are smart.
Atleast they don't chop off their own genitalia, and start fucking themselves over with hormones all whilst screaming "I'MAWOMANSUPERGENDERBOYCOCKLOVINGOTHERKINDONGERFRIENDPUSSYCUMGUZZLINGRETARDEDSHEMALE". That *immediately* makes them better than humans, simply on principle.

>>19518366
Facts.

>>19529118
>we wuz kweenz an shiiet

>>19533739
Tool ARE our skill set. Its our ability to create objects to help us interact with our environment, not change our bodies that make us successful (among some other abilities like our complex language and culture) Think of it this way, the average human bodies isn't the best for any single climate but with tools like Fire, clothing and the ability to take nutrients with us we, live almost everywhere. As for success, well its an objective term. Humans are definitely skilled in the tool making department, so much we (ignorantly) assume tool making the best criteria for assessing a species intelligence.

>>19518366
>not Bugs's life
Pleb

>>19528897
KEK

>>19519782
>European ants are agricultural masterminds
>African ants are violent killers
You can't make this shit up

>>19530476
That's what the Internet is the beginning of, same with the Grid. They are a means to share energy and information with other humans very quickly and efficiently

>>19536595
Antz was a better movie than A Bug's Life. Better plot, more original, better humor, better actors. The only reason to think A Bug's Life is anywhere near the level of Antz is because they came out when you were a child and you were attracted to the bright children's cartoon instead of an actual Woody Allen comedy that happened to be animated.

>>19518393
Bullshit.

Sauce on that or gtfo.

>>19519564
How do they work?

>>19537337
http://www.journalofscience.net/File_Folder/521-532(jos).pdf

I like when is this easy.