r/woahthatsinteresting 2d ago

Ants making a smart maneuver

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u/Sufficient_Slice_417 2d ago

No fucking way. Right? Right???

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u/Effective-Ad7463 2d ago

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u/thebeatle022 1d ago

Bless you for doing the lords work

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u/Chicken_Grapefruit 16h ago

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUP!

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u/bigkahuna1uk 2d ago

Collective intelligence displayed here is unworldly 😯

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u/Caminsky 2d ago

Until they discovered the internet and went on to believe insecticide was good for them.

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u/spentbrass1 2d ago

Or found porn on the internet and stopped working

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u/uponplane 2d ago

Come on, they're not north Korean troops!

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u/bigkahuna1uk 1d ago

Even the Teamsters couldn’t get their collective shit together like this ants 😉

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u/Awfulufwa 2d ago

"Sugar is what the big man gives you to make you feeble and docile! We will no longer stand for this injustice! "

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u/TurnipSwap 2d ago

Eh, only seems unworldly because as people, the more of us, the dumber we become. Like one person, fairly intelligent. But a group of people?...

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u/OverDaCounterCulture 2d ago

Do not fuck with ants. There are more of them and they are smarter than us.

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u/farganbastige 12h ago

I see a stop motion video with a thing that they moved around on a table to take still shots of. Ants like the thing but did they really move it? Nah.

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u/Only-Book-1586 2d ago

Can they recall the technique?

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u/KanarYa4LYfe 2d ago

That’s terrifying to watch

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u/marcymarc887 2d ago

Why did you crop the whole video?
The VoiceOver here is BS, but that's the whole video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_nuRq8nJPA

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u/hokeyphenokey 2d ago

Hmmm. "Humans were prevented from talking, like ants."

Ants absolutely communicate.

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u/Enter_up 2d ago

This has got to be the 15th time I've seen this posted on my feed this Christmas morning.

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u/LaconicStraightMan 2d ago

Ants don't take holidays.

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u/OppositeDangerous487 2d ago

You know there was at least one Ross ant yelling “Piv ot - Pi Vot!”

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u/duckets615 2d ago

Queen is never gonna let them keep it anyway. Relegated to the man cave at best.

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u/MisterInternational1 1d ago

Why would ants want to move a letter T ?

Did they already move the A, N ?

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u/No_Essay_9379 2d ago

What’s the timeframe on this?

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u/Challenge419 2d ago

32 seconds. Scary right?

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u/No_Essay_9379 2d ago

That’s not 32 seconds

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u/Challenge419 2d ago

It was a joke. Because the video is 32 seconds lol

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u/The_Infectious_Lerp 2d ago

Pivot! PIVOT!!!

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u/bf2afers 2d ago

That is impressive.

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u/SATBrrr 2d ago

We dead

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u/turkeysandwich2727 2d ago

But how did they incentivize them to do this?

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u/Silent-Resort-3076 2d ago

One would hope IF I had the same set up in front of me I could figure out what those ants were able to figure out. BUT, having a much larger brain didn't help me to figure it out visually....Thanks OP!!😂

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u/hokeyphenokey 2d ago

They live in a nearly 2 dimensional world. This is a strange activity.

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u/imreallyfreakintired 2d ago

Cool! For their next trick, train them to disabled all the nukes

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u/No-Yak762 2d ago

They should run for president

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u/Creamy_Spunkz 2d ago

This experiment is cherry picked like a mfkr

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u/quebexer 2d ago

That's me and my wife trying to get a large couch inside our apartment door.

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u/veryuniqueredditname 2d ago

A bit unsettling and amazing. How long did it take them to finish

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u/TatteredTorn1 2d ago

My team and I couldn't even figure that out

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u/doge_lady 2d ago

Are these really ants? I was totally unaware they could work to move things together. I've never seen that. Now i suppose they are quite smart to figure this out. But have they figured out how they will get that down to their nest?

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u/Gothintrovert 2d ago

WOOOOW! Humans couldn’t even do that

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u/nando82 1d ago

I, for once, welcome our new ant overlords...

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u/Maleficent-Young-168 11h ago

why are they moving it

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u/necksix 4h ago

Is that real? Amazing. The one time wisdom of the crowds really worked.

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u/The_Crimson_Fuckr69 2d ago

Theyre ants. They communicate through hormones mostly. The motivator would be theyre hungry they think this is food. They would do this because of food. Hopefully that helps.

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u/PronoiarPerson 2d ago

So the red T is food then? They are trying to bring the food back to the nest.

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u/The_Crimson_Fuckr69 2d ago

If not directly food. It is probably baited to be read as such by the ants.