The Horror of the Slaver Ant

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How Warhammer 40k their life is

@@cosiabuffo8527 Santguinius. Ferrus Antus. Garviel Lokant.

@@cosiabuffo8527 tookthe words right outta my mouth 😂

So true

Wait till you hear about Humans...

that is what we call, an ant literally too angry to die

I feel like the way we look at ants, is the same way advanced alien civilization would look at us humans. We really aren't all that much different than ants when you look at us as groups rather than individuals

Feels like something from out of a movie tbh

It’s actually like something out of a video game.

Doomguy ants lol
"Rip and tear until it is done," but for reals tho

Lol you just described the potential outcome of every rebellion in the history of life…

Kinda crazy to think there have been more successful ant slave revolts than such human slave revolts

@@floyd9727I think they meant since there's no queen left to continue their own group.

@@CaptainMaggott I think thats just cause you don't really learn about human slave revolts and probably only learned about slavery in america. However for example in haiti, the slaves revolted and brutally murdered their french enslavers killing everyone including french babies with such efficiency that France actually ended up declaring slavery illegal because they knew keeping slaves was a ticking time bomb.

@@xander5426 its interesting how only black and brown ants form the slave caste of ants

Someone probably thinks the same for the human race.

of ants or humans?

@@lukewilde1494 Yes

@@lukewilde1494 Actually id would be pretty cool to have 2 parallel story lines that are basicly the same, but one with Ants and one with humans

Middle Ant: Shadow of Polyergus

one could write a book with this plot

Ever since the leaf cutter ants (I think they’re called) I’ve been hooked

kurzgesANT

@@kingtreedede7303 Weaver ants.

I love ants

I think they're being mind controlled

Thats why it more than likely usually fails, especially with multi Queen Nests, you have to be STUPID lucky for it to work or you find a nest with only one queen
Think about it, youre already deep in the enemy lines, now you not only have to find and assassinate one queen, but you also have to navigate a damn labyrinth full of Soldiers trying to find the other 2-6 other queens in that nest, keep in mind that this labyrinth is brimming with enemy soldiers that can and will eat you alive if you so much as take a little too long

The fact that the slaver queens will just maul their attempted victim for like half an hour is pretty intense…absolute overkill.

You witnessed an actual simulation of "primitive" war.
The "scouts" parleyed with one another, they ofc disagreed, and full scale war actually broke out with armies standing on both sides. That's honestly quite cool.

I've always wanted to see two ant armies fight eachother

Imagine having a war while 2 giants watch over you

@@Freekywill show me what you got

@@TheHELLFIREz Lmao Rick and Morty reference

Everything does

@@Davis... Not me.

A lore that's much, much older than ours. In the world of ants, millions of civilisation and great cities rose and fell over the course of one hundred millions years.

This comment made me chuckle

This!

This is a great idea. An educational ant game from Kurzgesagt would be the coolest thing since A Slower Speed of Light.

There's a game called The Ants. But it's not very detailed and not ants-oriented as this video was.

yes something like Spore

There is a pc game called empires of the undergrowth which is very fun but, unfortunately the dev team is very small

Yes, maybe you could name it, “Universe in a Nutshell.” Maybe you could make it a size comparison with atoms, the universe, and everything in between. Oh wait

They sure are brutal, just like we are eh, total illusion of civilization

@@jwalster9412 that would be 1000 meters

@@jwalster9412 Only 1/10th of a kilometer. Quite plausible.

@@nodnarb9932 Interesting..and that would be 1000000 millimetres

@@jwalster9412 a km is not that big of a distance

It's probably a disclaimer because Karens are everywhere, even in the kurzgesagt comments section, arguably one of the most wholesome places on the internet.

Some of them might be plants though. ^^

"fish are friends, not food"

Remember, dogs are dogs, not people.

Yeah when animal kills human it went "wild". Animals are just doing animal things, only we are giving them human labels
"A viscous crocodile killed a child"? No, crocodile is just trying to survive by eating food

If you think about it. Size doesn't really matter. You can also see this kind of complexity in the microscopic world.

@@esailmind3339 you're right. As a tech guy, I can't help but feel like size must matter... At one point we had to represent complex logic with logic circuits, which take up plenty of physical space. Then we got the transistor, and now we can hold the equivalent of millions of logic circuits in code on a tiny little memory chip, to be interpreted and executed by a tiny little processor. Even then, that requires physical space. It's hard to conceptualize and rationalize how so many complex behaviors could fit within the logic processing organs of such small creatures, but then I remember that there are literally brainless protein chains that somehow zip, unzip, and replicate DNA. The universe is host to countless self-assembling machines that work because they just work, and it blows my mind. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if the development and evolution of hivemind behaviors in species like bees and ants had some wibbly wobbly quantum nonsense behind it.

They have been created that way

@@AngryAlfonse Exactly.
Also, think about T-duality. Another mindfuck.

@@AngryAlfonse that last thought is super interesting actually. I would’ve never even considered that but now that you mention it it’s quite the interesting theory.

Ark solo raid

thats so sick lol literally 1v1 ing multiple queens

@@sgtmuffinbadger6147 I used to love ark 5000 hours lol

@@2ndintelligentWorld like bayek killing 1v1 ing all the bosses

The ants watch too much anime

Ah yes, the most brutal form of rebellion: a workers’ strike.

As a Polyergus worker, get back to feeding me you son of a b-

@@fifervonpiper6707 as a preying mantis, you guys have a very weird feeding fetish *snacks on remains of my ex*

How dare you! The Polyergus are our lords and masters! I will have you reported to the taskmasters!

As a fellow Formica 30786, I suggest we should just relax and watch FIFA World Cup, since we are such short-lived...

How? We just established you are not very good at communicating with each other.

@@kirbodin lmao

@@kirbodin through KRplus videos silly.

“As a polyergus, I confirm this is 100% true”

Imagine how many polyergi you need to type a whole sentence on a keyboard

Sure, you COULD simulate an entire universe down to every atom, quark and gluon, OR you can just put up a skybox and only simulate the interesting bits

@@Axius27 you wouldn’t have to simulate those things unless they’re observed. Kind of like how science changes when you observe something small or the double slit. While not observing something you wouldn’t have to simulate that at all.

@@karlaldridge4848 Yeah, exactly.
I swear, the disconnect between Newtonian physics and Quantum physics is just two different game engines that aren't _quite_ compatible with each other :P

dont u know its only rendered if viewed

​@//Axius27 conversion/merging would be a hard reset lol. That or, liker in TF2, there's a essential piece of code in one or both that nakes it impossible for either to run

100% These have become my favorite

@@neochris2 The space stuff is probably a bit cooler but the ants are a close second.

True, I've been interested in ants since Sim Ant. Such a great game

Yea I love ants!

@@cyan_oxy6734 Yes, I actually agree

NPC comment

That's why they have almost 20 Million Subscribers

Too bad they choose deceptive sponsors. Wren doesn't 'protect' nearly as much as it claims, and much of its land is not and was not at risk.

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shut up

Only in Western Europe/America, not so much elsewhere.
Actual Balkan war song from Serbia (patriotic) title: "My father was a war criminal."

@fandomguy8025 lol so is that supposed to be some ironic double entendre? Cuz man that works on so many levels if true for ant species.

human can easily do much more horrible things. Animals do everything for survival but human can do anything for fun...

ok

​@@happywhale1786Give us an example, because even for fun is a reason and has a good explanation.

Literally what I thought

I love A Bug's Life, but seriously, ants are the Galactic Empire of the insect kingdom. I think they even served as inspiration for fascism and communism when it comes to building a perfect society of blind followers.

@@yarpen26 The book "The Once and Future King" by TH White explores a similar analogy. Very interesting stuff

@@yarpen26 or capitalism really

@@MaticTheProto not really.

bro has total war: Ants in his backyard

Antghanistan

Get an ant farm and raise your own kingdom of ants to rival those, then place that ant farm next to the enemy. Let war begin.

Sounds crazy make a vid on it 😂😳

Just kill the fire ants honestly they're invasive asf

pikmin 4

Haha this ant species is like the Dark Eldar who excelle in quick lethal raids torture and slaves.

I was thinking the exact same thing - very Tyranid of them.

Yeah, and then you have all powerful beings that could completely eradicate them in a second if they wanted to

@@anon_148 I think what they meant is that we could eradicate entire colonies really quickly if we wanted to. That much is absolutely true. If you get the chance, look into what happens if you pour liquid aluminum into an anthill, it's really neat in macabre way.
Could we wipe out all ants? Only if we want to wipe ourselves out with them, and even then it's far from a guarantee.

Here to spread the blessings of Tzeentch.

Yeah! Bees are pretty much just bigger ants that fly. The social behavior of bees and ants is strikingly similar.

They have a common ancestor and that is where the split happened between them

or wasps!

@@GeoffryGifari Sorry, Kurzgesagt doesn't do videos about demons.

@@terrancenightingale1749 yeah bees are respectful, but wasps are just a menace

bro try the game kenshi

Try touching grass maybe?

Basically Mount and Blades

@@VEVOJavier I am completely impervious to "touch grass" because i grow the grass, and touch it every day

there is an ant rts (empires of the undergrowth). idk if they have polyergus tho

They could make this into an entire one hour video and I would still watch it fully

Is it tho😂 it is interesting but I wouldn’t say more than anything humans have created

is it? You'll forget about this 5 seconds after you close the YT tab.

And as someone said back: "Of course reality is stranger than fiction! Fiction has to make sense so people can enjoy it!"

I would love a novel about insect wars. Imagine A WW2 style documentary, but for ants.

turns out they're not tiny humans but we're just really big ants

forget aliens we got intelligent life right under us
and they couldnt care less about humans despite doing a bunch of the things we do

stuff we find human is in many animals some build nests others have troops and a select few can wield weapons.

And for aliens, humans are the ants 😊

It's only because we like to anthropomorphise everything, whether it's the sun, the weather, or ant colonies.

That ant you've saved could've been a war criminal!

@@pandakekok7319 that’s why I kill all ants I see

Yeah you find your own ant colony, then destroy all other ants around your best girls.
*Don't forget to only select native ant colonies for your own.

like that guy that spared Hitler

Bro saved ant equivalent of Hitler

There's a game called "Empires of the undergrowth"
It's alright.

Nice

nice

Nice👍

very nice

But we still step on them and commit mass murder on a daily basis..It shows how top we are in the ecosystem

And then another even more gruesome layer of the world exists one order of magnitude deeper with the constant chemical warefare free for all waged by microbes against all other microbes. (We take advantage of this war to find useful chemical weapons like penicillin to use as antibiotics)

In the grim darkness of insect world, there is only war.

Polyergus being some kind of Dark Eldar...

please update the comment if you ever do write it

I suggest checking out The Wandering Inn on Audible. In that series there's a race of human sized ants. The first book only goes into a bit of detail about them, but later on you learn more.

Could someone send me Zefrank's Army Ant video link? Can't find it

entire campaigns have been written in the planescape settings using the Formians (Ant like species)

@@ovencake523 I second this! 🌹

zergling rush still OP

argentine ants 💀

I did the same thing, with the ant pits.

ok

Ants usually become noticeably larger to be able to hunt larger prey, not to be a more powerful combat unit*. Small ants are able to surround other ants and pull at their limbs, lifting them into the air and exposing them.
*There are exceptions. Leafcutter ants use their head muscles to rip away at leaves, and a special caste has grown larger to accomodate larger head muscles for attacking intruders. While many ants do have a soldier and worker caste with the soldiers being larger than the workers, the difference is usually quite small and workers may do jobs outside of the nest.

You can watch antscanada videos here on KRplus.

@@philrokx850 I was also going to recommend AntsCanada. It's bizarrely entertaining

Empire of the Ants 2020 BBC Documentary HD BY David Attenborough 59 minutes long and he covers an Ant empire where there are multiple massive colonys working together. something i found interesting is the notion that this empire basicly enslaves there queens, as he was able to catch it on video o 1 queen trying to run away right after hibernation wake up. and was dragged back in by force

the grandfather of ant research (and highly influential to the interface of Biology & Sociology) is E.O. Wilson. check him out, if your curiosity is tickled.
a 2h docu "Lord of the Ants / The Ant Whisperer" by PBS Nova is available on YT (user: john neto)

Well, there's already about 3 or 4 more ant videos where this one came from.

Bruh your youtube channel is Dope..I just watched few of your videos..Keep uploading and you ll soon blow up

Then you haven't discovered Ants Canada yet. Check him out.

@@Flippokid I just did..Now I am scared of ants..Well done!

Have you ever left a piece of dried fruit near a nest and watch them make it disappear? You'll watch that like a kid and completely lose track of time. Ants are always interesting!

an* 11 minute video

Get back here slave! The next generation of my kin just hatched and I have NO idea what I'm doing!

You can do it

Don’t forget to look behind you every 5 human steps. I heard the Queen has a hidden special forces

Don't fall for the overwhelming feeling of wanting to be apart of the best colony in the world... They are ones that brainwashed you!!

Brother, there is a safe colony of carpenter ants who’ll accept refugees devastated by the Polyergus ants. Just head west until you cross the log over the river and turn right.

You know it’s good when you watch their videos in class

@@BBB-999 You know their videos are great when you skip classes to watch their videos

Yess 19.7 million like .3 more to go :)

"can we just appreciate the effort they put into their videos". Bot.

@@alaskaone this guy probs isn’t a bot but definitely seeking for likes

And compared to the majority of creatures humanity is just the resident eldritch empire of literally unimaginably powerful giant monsters.

In all seriousness, movies like Antz made me think the exact same way.

ants is pretty much an animal version of warhammer 40k

Look up empires of the undergrowth. It’s a great ant based rts. Currently sports 10 ant species. The story mode is centered on the fictional gene-thief ant species which can unlock black ants, wood ants, leaf cutters, and fire ants. But other species show up like army ants, slave maker ants, big headed ants, little black ants, and trap jaw ants.

@@lukeh990 Where can I get it and how much does it cost?

@@Cosmic_Explorerrr Dude, literally the first thing that comes up when you google the name of the game is a Steam Store link. This isn't even laziness anymore...

@@NaoyaYamiLol, My bad I entered the wrong spelling..Thats why I was confused

@@NaoyaYami youtube users just click funny thumbnails and type a comment occasionaly, you can't put them up to such standards.

I doubt it, their nukes would be waaay too small

Actually, I just did some simple maths, and even if they made tiny nukes we'd be screwed.

@@luipaardprint Really? You did some simple maths on ants making tiny nukes? Get real. You can't scale down nuclear weapons beyond a certain point, due to critical mass needed for fusion.

The ants were bad, but I really remember the one when Cassie morphed into a termite. That was a bad, bad, bad idea.

@@Blaquer17 Ooh, I don't think I remember that one. I've gotta finish reading the series, though. I dropped off right around the time Eliminist Chronicles released, so maybe 2/3 of the way through.

you could have seen the video before comenting? right?

Same tbh, their animations are top quality

Ok bot

@@arericarnau4773 Dude this is a series about ants they’ve been doing for years

One of their best

I feel like those southern ants know a thing or two about this!

@@stevencooper4422 -👴🏻

@@stevencooper4422 evolution

Just what I was thinking about. They are a lot like the Spartans

I laughed my ass off at the beginning. I was like, oh. these are the spartan ants. Lol

i think i know who it is...

bro saw a kurzgesact video an immidiatly made a new channel for it 💀

@@supershoe6627 It says joined 3 years ago

@@supershoe6627 youtube logic

cringe

Ants are amazing, it's not only this video. Ant documentaries are really fun!

If ants are insignificant, so is Earth

As far as I know, ants are the only other critters that commit total war.

I bet you're significant...

@@DailyDoseOfTopComment depends on who u ask

The hidden bullet ant about to string you into the eye after it had fallen into the tree:

Lol

Nice

I really hope they do videos on other eusocial insects like termites and (some) aphids too. Fun fact, the current record holder for fastest recorded animal movement belong to a species of soil-eating termite! Their soldiers' jaws strike at 1/3rd the speed of sound

Yeah. I didn't know a lot about slaver ants lol.

It's just you. Literally no-one else loves this series about ants.

@@lapatjani3171 Bullshit. I love it

I also like this series.

Imagine if they showed real images in such closeup without the animations..I would have been uncomfortable ..These animations make them cute and fun to watch

Who/ what is pikimin

​@@Ibloop It's a Nintendo game. Search it on KRplus

Here is something to wonder about: many ants species have a working caste that cant reproduce, and in some cases they even lack a digestive system they merely work to death. These workers dont eat nor drink or fuck, they only sleep because of cold, never stop working or fighting, they cant feel pain nor fear, they exist to endlessly work. In all sense they are not truly ants but bio-droids built by a central cadre of actual true ants to do their every biding.
Yes, the ants actually perfected droid armies mllions of years ago, they surpassed mankind in complexity and technology even before we existed.

@@grillodofus now that you say it that way 🤔

@@grillodofus interesting

@@grillodofus only they are tiny, and have not gone to space like Chad humans

@@shlecko XD humans have yet to go into space we just peeked out the window and it was all black XD. Some day maybe if we last that long.

"These damn walking Hershey's bars" - 👴🏻🐜

@@OhioButtShakerGyattMachine9500
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Strength in Numbers, comrade. United we stand, divided we fall. LASIUS-NIGER SUPREMACY!!!

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I must be honest.. I had to look up "W teacher" in the Urban Dictionary hahahaha
Thank u guys

@@jeshux1994 haha it simple mean Win or best

D1 meat rider

thanks to bill gates money

I have no idea why we haven't seen a proper Ant or other insect game yet. There's so many species and varied ways they survive it would provide very diverse gameplay.

​@@Justmonika6969 I think the game loop is tricky. If you simulate ant behaviour (which is what makes them so cool), you effectively end up with no control for the player. If you instead have the player control the ants like in a traditional strategy game... well then you just have a normal RTS but with only melee units.
That and also their movement is "very 3D" as they can easily go up and down trees and leafs. That is almost impossible to translate well into a game. So you also have to limit it probably to some 2D perspective, removing much of their interaction.

@@Justmonika6969 There *was* SimAnt back in the day, it was pretty cool but it would be cool to see something with current generation technology.

I am so happy to be the first in this thread to mention an OUTSTANDING ant-based strategy game called Empires of the Undergrowth!! Developed by Slug Disco, currently in Early Access on Steam and nearing its full launch. It's not a 100% true-to-life ant simulator, but it comes really close and is also just a ton of fun, I've been a huge fan for years and I absolutely love the game.
You can play as a bunch of different ant species with different mechanics, starting each game with a queen and a handful of workers. You dig out a nest, collect resources, grow your colony, encounter tons of different critters and other ant colonies when you venture outside the nest, and try to dominate the map. The game has a really fun single-player campaign, a ton of extra one-off levels with different rules and goals, and a freeplay mode that you can customize. Definitely check them out and consider supporting the game!

Empires of the Undergrowth.

The animations are insane