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Sunday Night Movie: Swimming Ants
Posted by Alex Wild on April 25, 2010 From “Life in the Undergrowth“, perhaps the finest insect documentary ever made, a scene featuring Australia’s intertidal ants: A few years back I traveled through northern Queensland with myrmecologists Phil Ward and Gary Alpert. Having heard about the aquatic abilities of these ants, we searched for them in a mangrove forest just outside the Cairns…
Sunday Night Movie: Driver Ants Mating
Posted by Alex Wild on February 28, 2010 A short clip from the BBC program “Ant Attack” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHoRiFq3ekw] Driver ant males are astoundingly strange creatures. They are larger, more muscular, more exaggerated than most other male ants. The reason is likely linked to the behavior shown in the above video: males must first be accepted by a gauntlet of choosy workers. A classic…
Sunday Night Movie: Army Ant Roll Call
Posted by Alex Wild on September 20, 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7b09YZoMYk] (From BBC’s “Walk on the Wild Side“)
Sunday Night Movie: Fierce Ant-On-Ant Action
Posted by Alex Wild on April 12, 2009 From the BBC’s excellent, if overly dramatic, wildlife unit: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL3sHuK3iGE]