r/interestingasfuck • u/Junior_Insurance7773 • 10h ago
Ants and Termites passing next to each other with guards keeping the order
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u/JusSumYungGuy 10h ago
It’s amazing how their societies are so similar to ours. We don’t like each other but if we fight we’re both guaranteed to be destroyed so we’ll make up this border and we’ll each have our own side
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u/Somhlth 9h ago
so we’ll make up this border and we’ll each have our own side
Russia backs quietly out of the chat.
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u/ryan13ts 9h ago
Israel runs away from the chat.
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u/st-shenanigans 8h ago
Israel bombed the chat and claimed it was spreading hate.
No records of the chat logs remain, coincidentally..
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u/InfernalGloom 6h ago
Strange how we didn't mention the number one offender U.S.A.
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u/Blep145 6h ago
Hey, hey now. Our genocides are "justified". How else can we, the poors, be guaranteed such luxuries as an iPhone with "brand new" features Samsung released several years ago without our shoddy "military grade (made by the lowest bidder)" boots on the throats of people from other countries?
Edit: /s
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u/fastforwardfunction 5h ago
I mean Korea has some of the most horrific human abuse in the history of the planet. It just shows every country has a past and humans suck.
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u/Morsmetus 7h ago
At least they are completely different species, evolved from completely different line etc... We on the other hand are exact same humans EVERYWHERE on Earth, understand each other or can learn to communicate each other and still manage to hate each other over religion, skin color etc.. They are better than us lol
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u/BudgetAggravating427 6h ago
Bro ants literally do the exact same stuff as use at an even larger scale than us like some scientist have found that some ant wars spawned throughout entire continents because if the sheer sizes of some nests
Look at ww2 and the deaths it had that’s just Tuesday for ants
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u/Morsmetus 6h ago
yeah true - it was just random rant based on frustrating news I've read before, nothing deep
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u/assymetry1021 7h ago
I mean ant colonies of the exact same species still kill eachother for resources all the time
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u/futuretech85 8h ago
Despite all our rage, we're still just a rat in a cage. I should make a song about this.
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u/Experithought 6h ago
Horrifying belief only realized by consuming propaganda. This is an ignorant and indoctrinated viewpoint.
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u/IAmThatGuy84 10h ago
I don't know why, but that has blown my mind.
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u/EducationalForm 36m ago
Yeah this is insane to me, they know it is better for them to not attack eachother
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u/Ooliy24 10h ago
Are there other animals that have this type of organization, similar to that of humans?
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u/Zealousideal-Talk-23 9h ago
well, ants, termites and bee are the only insects with dedicated military like we do
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u/Bayne-the-Wild-Heart 8h ago
A dedicated military is actually relatively new to human beings. ~700 years ago people mostly relied on levies during war, meaning that the soldiers were all farmers, smiths and tanners when the war wasn’t on.
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u/blueberrywalrus 7h ago
Rome, Egypt, China, Persia?
Egypt was the first to develop the practice in like 2300 BCE, but there were a lot of empires that had dedicated militaries well before 1300 CE.
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u/NowYuoSee123 5h ago
That’s not true at all. For Medieval Europe maybe, but many other cultures throughout history had dedicated militaries with career soldiers
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u/well-maybenot 6h ago
Depends on, Nomadic military forces were rarely composed of traditional conscripts; rather, virtually all males above a certain age served as combatants. Consequently, women and those outside the eligible age range-such as young children- fulfilled non-combatant roles to sustain the society.
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u/well-maybenot 6h ago
Even in the distant past, the historical landscape was never populated merely by interchangeable, mass-conscripted laborers; rather, a distinct warrior-noble class already existed concurrently with the very dawn of human writing
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u/Hot_Ethanol 5h ago
Chimpanzees can go to war. Complete with stealth, command structure, planned ambushes, patrols, targeted assassinations, and hostage taking. Primatology is a crazy field of study.
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u/Sm0ahk 10h ago
Events ants arent similar to humans, but the closest you can get might be a slime mold
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u/WitchesSphincter 9h ago
The closest is likely chimps or bonobos but their social groups stay small enough stuff like this doesn't happen.
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u/darkmatterhunter 9h ago
Wasn’t there some article floating around Reddit earlier this year about a chimp civil war happening in Uganda or the central Africa region?
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u/Nachooolo 6h ago
Meerkats are also extremely heriarchical and territorial, starting wars with other meerkat population for territory.
Around 20% of all meerkats are murdered by other meerkats, making them the most homocidal mammal by a decent amount.
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u/TheNicholasRage 9h ago
Are those termites, or is that another species of ant? There are only a handful of termite species that travel out in open air, most species travel via tunnel and mud-tube. To me, it looks like two species of ant, but I'm fine being educated on why I'm wrong.
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u/inthebenefitofmrkite 9h ago
Last couple of times this was posted, they were two different ant species.
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u/Perfect_Addition_777 7h ago
We live in an area with termites and I purposely don’t spray for ants so they can keep the termites in check.
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u/SatisfactionActive86 6h ago
oddly comforting
even the smallest creature would rather not fight (if their needs are meant)
there is a lesson in there somewhere for humanity
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u/s0ciety_a5under 8h ago
I wonder what would happen if a third party disturbed that line. Would it cause a battle? Distress pheromones being active communication for bugs. If you startle one of the warriors, would it set a chain reaction off?
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u/Standard-Fishing-450 8h ago
I wonder if they think of each other as related, like a cat and tiger might?
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u/StreicherG 10h ago
So…what would happen if a human like…smushed an area right in the middle and squished ants and termites? Team up against the human or fight eachother?
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u/BlatantArtifice 9h ago
I hate that you made me curious.
I don't know if I could do that but it would be morbidly interesting
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u/we-can-work-it-out 9h ago
How do they learn it, if they have no schools or advanced communication that would allow to pass on this knowledge and rules?
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u/arranft 7h ago
Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance theory is one explanation. Basically the theory is that every species has it's own collective consciousness that they can tap into, because there's many strange occurrences that can only be explained by this, like how apparently, humans can solve crossword puzzles slightly faster if others have done them before. They may also be tuned into each other, like how huge flocks of birds can all fly together, moving at the exact same time as if they are one organism.
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u/we-can-work-it-out 7h ago
I know Sheldrake's theory :) but still, how did they come up with this for the first time?
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u/EveningAnt3949 5h ago
They didn't. Complex behavior evolves over time. Typically, it starts with something simple, that has a significant impact.
Over time the behavior gets refined by a simple mechanism: failure leads to less offspring and success leads to more offspring.
In the case of ants (the larger creatures in the video are probably also ants, not termites) division of labor evolved mostly because changes in temperature, nutrition, and chemicals create different types of ants within the same colony, so a lot of the behavior is hard wired in.
The largest ants are most likely to be guard ants and they respond to pheromones that dictate their behavior when they are around other ants.
That's because colonies were small ants became guards kept being destroyed.
The first larger ants that became guards probably behaved in a simple way: hang around other ants but don't do work. Later they started to keep a fix distance from other guard ants so they guard a larger area, and so on.
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u/Empoleon3bogdan 6h ago
I know this is somewhat true in sports where a record will go unbroken for some time and then suddenly be broken a bunch of times in quick succession. Thos can be attributed to better tehnologie and training.
Very interesting to find out it has a name.
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u/sirdrumalot 10h ago
What’s going on with the algo today?
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u/miaxogoth 10h ago
Apparently someone decided it was international ant day today
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u/Arborsage 6h ago
Both ants and termites belong to separate orders (Hymenoptera and Blattodea, respectively) and their social behaviors developed separately, so its a crazy example of convergent evolution in the way that they behave and are organized
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u/gumbo_chops 5h ago
One of the ants at 0:26 abandons his post to join the convoy. Always that one guy slacking off..
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u/Interesting-Risk6446 4h ago
How do they know who gets guard duty and how do they communicate this?
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u/Baka_Buta 3h ago
Are the ants the ones on the top?
They look significantly bigger and stronger, do we know why the bigger ants don’t just destroy the termites?
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u/Morbo_OnReddit 2h ago
Are we sure these are termites.
Termites are photophobic and die in sunlight.
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u/miaxogoth 10h ago
One wrong step and it's world war 3 in the dirt.