The BONE SNATCHING Colony Explained | The Bone Snatcher
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- čas přidán 6. 01. 2024
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In the Nambia Desert of South Africa, I believe the continent not the country, a group of prospectors are out there looking for diamonds. As they do they run across warnings in the surrounding area about a creature known as the sand mother. It steals the bones of creatures and uses them to hunt others. As they continue to encroach upon this territory, they end up finding exactly what the warnings were trying to explain to them. But the question is, how does this work exactly? lets discuss that in todays Episode!
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I HAD TO REUPLOAD THIS BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHH. Anyhow thank you for watching, big sad I had to delete the other one. Also if you want to support the channel heres the merch link! www.roanokemerch.com
Excuse to watch again 😏
It ok
Here to watch it again for you brother, keep up the great work.
what was wrong with the old one lol
U should watch lost tribe (2010) movie and cover that!
"The Ants Go Marching" playing throughout the whole video is hilarious in a dark sort of way.
it really does have a great ability to make any scenes with the ants absolutely hilarious
the music choice didn't hit me until halfway through the video when he actually started to talk about ants
I couldn’t stop chuckling every time it played 😂
You beat me to it, I was like "is that the Ants go marching song"? HAHAHA, very nice touch IMO XD.
Especially them three ants looking like they're dancing to it @ 22:36
A skeleton being driven by ants is a neat yet freaky concept
Wonder if the ‘Vashta Nerada’ from Doctor Who was inspired by it 🤔
@@edgymoji8260 Likely. Not many unique concepts in it.
They're riding their own titans around.
Tomb Swarm from Warhammer Fantasy
I mean, your skeleton is driven by a bunch of tiny organisms working in tandem already, so is it really that much of a stretch?
"I'm the guy explaining the movie to you I should probably have listened to that"
I cannot express how much I relate to this statement on every level
Information correction: Eusocial insects aren't actually "driven/controlled by the queen" in any way. That's an old assumption we made based on human hierarchies. The queen of a eusocial colony is basically just a glorified egg sack, with no ability to control any other members; and in fact, if the workers sense that the queen is sick or has stopped laying eggs, they totally can and will kill her and raise a new queen larva.
The very cool thing about this is it means that the intelligence, problem-solving, and structure-building of the eusocial insects is an *emergent property* - it's the cumulative effect of a whole bunch of unintelligent individuals following simple rules, acting together. Each individual worker emits pheromones, and responds to the pheromones it encounters, and the colony as a whole behaves based on the proportions of pheromones among its members. It's truly fascinating stuff, and in my opinion, an even cooler and scarier premise for a horror movie!
This is so amazingly cool, I need to make note to read more about it
I thought that was only some types of ant
I thought you'd make to correction about how it's closer to 20x their weight that they can move.
where will you be when the ant uprising begins?
I came here with the intention of expressing a similar statement. It’s less “long live the queen” & more “long live the colony”
I'll just rewatch it, like I usually do!
Roanoke makes some of the most rewatchable stuff on youtube. I didn't notice the background music in the video is "the ants go marching one by one" the first time lol
Bruh same
Yes!
Same! :)
Takes the watch twice to digest it all lol
I am so lucky to live in a society where my lack of any kind of averse reaction to scuttling things doesn't immediately get me killed.
My reaction when I see a spider or centipede is more of an "aaw" than an "AAAGH!", and if I lived in Australia, that'd get me killed twelve times before lunch.
You lucky bastard! I have the exact opposite problem, where if I see anything that has too many legs, my brain reverts back to ape mode.
Shouting, pointing, throwing r9cks? @@Player_O1ne
@@Player_O1nesame bro, I just start flinging whatever is near me and beat a hasty retreat
Aussie here and im the exact same- i LOVE (most) Spiders! 😂 We get taught from a very young age at school which animals/insects are safe, venomous and poisonous though!
Spiders and most of our insects are the backbone of our ecosystem (here expecially), without them so many other animals would go hungry! and without spiders eating the bad bugs we would probably all get sick or injured 😅
@@aliiien23 still doesnt stop bricks being shat when a huntsmen drops from the roof onto you when laying on your bed. or when one decides to sprint at you under the toilet door.
Everyone thinks ants are cool until you find them in your house. Then we all get possessed by that primal instinct of "hate anything that isn't human."
Keep up the banger content, Roanoke!
I turn into Stalin when I get ants in my house. They die
@@keigofae1081 So you starve them, send secret police ants after them if they speak out against you in ant, put them in ant gulag, and kill those that are against you?
I go by the simple philosophy of "stay in your place insect" I'm actually fine with spiders, as long as they stay in their web in the corner eating flies. The flies, while a pest, also can't help but spawn in trash, they literally can't help it because they are nature's cleaners. Ants however can survive just fine outside, so it's on sight if they try to come inside. Mosquitoes too, can go get fucking bent
I like when a single ant is on my hand
Currently dealing with ants in my bathroom. They just keep coming
If you watched the 2018 series "Nightflyers"; in an outtake of the production they were going to be getting the actors used to the robots on set. There was a robot whose purpose was to travel through airducts to flush out escaped lab animals or perform minor repairs. This thing was built on the lines of a spider, because of course it was. It was a puppet mostly but the actors got quite the scare when told this is what you are going to have to be afraid of and the damn thing scuttled forward much faster than anyone had expected it was capable of.
The ants go marching theme made me genuinely laugh in addition to like 5 other moments. You're swiftly becoming my favorite CZcamsr.
Istg lol
U need to watch more youtubers 😂
@@mattstyles2498Sod off. RG is great.
You need to stop criticizing people.@@mattstyles2498
I can't say I saw that coming
9:06 I graduated from a college in a super rural part of Colorado and one of my biology teachers would take us out on the range sometimes during the summer to find dead cows to rattle to show us how the decomposition worked in a semi arid desert.
Not even close to the strangest part of that school but I loved it.
I remember watching this on the syfy channel way back when. It looked as cheap as most of the movies on that channel, but that scene where the swarm is crawling around wearing that woman's face was genuinely well executed and unsettling. It's the lasting image I have from this movie
“Where the swarm is crawling around wearing that woman’s face” That was a surprising thing to read before watching the video
Oh god I almost forgot this channel existed, such nostalgia ...
Yeah thats how their movies are now super cheap cgi used to be better back when it was SciFi had more practical effects than solely going for cheap cgi lol
The sleeping bag scene is something i cant forget it
A lava rock quit his job at the volcano today. He said they took him for granite.
always enjoying the content, hope y'all have a damn good 2024!
Bah dum tss
Thank you for that. I really needed a lift lol
Got any gneiss jokes?
I'm calling the police
Lol
Ants don't actually follow orders from the queen. They all produce different pheromones based on what they experience at the moment: danger, hunger, cold, nearby food, etc., which mixes into a more complex communication network.
Ants just react to all the pheromones in the area, either following the strongest one, or they do something based on a more compicated weighted average of sorts.
The queen is just as much a slave to this as any other ant. Her programming is just slightly different. Instead of *explore when hungry*, hers is *stay at home and lay eggs."
And if she doesn't perform her function the colony will kill and if possible replace her
So then would it be possible to trick ants by using strong pheromones?
@@AaronSoul725 Oh, definitely. Search for *ant death spiral* if you want to see what a "glitch" looks like in the ant world. This happens, when too many ants are trying to get home, but hit a loop. As the inbound pheromone trail becomes stronger than the real one, they can't escape anymore and run around for hours.
@@AaronSoul725 Yes. People’ve done that in certain experimentations, and many bug traps rely on this, actually - say, an ant gets stuck in the trap, releases ‘danger’ pheromones, triggering more ants to come to try and fight off the danger, causing more ants to get stuck and more pheromones to be released. Eventually though, the trap will stop working as the ants learn not to attack, but to avoid whatever that thing is.
Also ants will kill their queens if she slacks up on laying and her pheromones aren't potent enough anymore due to either illness or age.
I loved the ant colony mechanism, it hits the uncanny valley, horror, and natural behaviors. Beautiful. Also ants vs anglerfish?
Anglerfish are scarier by appearance, ants are scarier by functionality.
I’d rather be bitten by an anglerfish than have my eyes targeted by a swarm.
“All measurements are bald eagles?”
Roanoke Gaming “Always has been”
I volunteer at an animal shelter, and everytime I see someone stick their fingers in the cage of a random animal, I always think of what you say about poking thing with a stick 😂
I honestly don’t understand how someone can look at those bodies and think it was a murder.
* Looks at a pile of bug-cleaned bones and melting flesh.
_“Alright, which of you did this?!”_
@@Canadian_Hospitality 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I mean, tf your theory would be?
I remember half watching this a few years ago and somehow missing the part where the ants actually killed anybody, so when they decided to destroy the sapient ant colony I was outraged that the first other intelligent species we've ever found was exterminated on pure xenophobia.
Well sometimes you have to show a life threatening xenos that humans are the top dogs.
Filmmakers: "Let's make a movie about fast flesh-eating intelligent ant colony!"
Roanoke Gaming: "Let me give the detailed explanation."
Filmmakers: 👁👄👁
Looking at these ants, it seriously gives me some vibes on the zombies from the movie World War Z. They would cling to each other to climb buildings/walls and bring down helicopters. That stuff actually scared me when I first saw it.
Hate the movie… someone was given too much artistic freedom on it
@@jzpowell2108Yeah, It would of worked better as a show.
@@jzpowell2108Understandable. Though I actually do enjoy the video game. Especially the XL edition on PS5.
@@TheRedMage01I think it was supposed to be a trilogy. But they cancelled for various reasons.
@@coryl.3567 won’t deny the video game is fun… if not just a Left 4 Dead clone, which is why it’s so fun
Wow, do the ants understand just how morbid and horrific it is to keep the ruined face of that lady as a hood ornament for their human hive mobile? That is SICK!
There are certain species of Ants from Florida, yes Florida, that keep the decapitated heads of their enemies as trophies so some just might.
@rorschach1985ify Of course it's Florida. I swear, if ants were able to get bigger we'd be living in the same timeline as Starship Troopers.
@@rorschach1985ify
I saw a group of ants take apart a big grasshopper then made its head move half gone
Very unsettling to see
@rorschach1985ify I think your thinking about Formica archboldi which indeed decorate their nests with the skulls of several trapjaw ant species
Dude if ants ever figure this out imma cry big L
The ant trail invading your kitchen past midnight be like
"He's made of ants at this point" *ants go marching plays in the background* i like this
As a South African, hearing your pronunciations of certain words made my day😂
I‘m German, and him saying „Flammenwerfer“ instead of flamethrower made me laugh. ^^
Him saying Nambian instead of Na-MIB-ian twirled my brain a bit.
@@ArDeeMee It werfs flammen!
Johan as in You-hun
Not jo-hun😅
Roanoke’s frustration with the nerd main character striking out with his dream girl is palpable.
You adding a lot of this science to all this creative work to help explain or bring theories is why I stay watching this channel.
I take anyone’s “scientific authority” with a grain of salt On CZcams but you keep everything pretty grounded and state when you are going off the rails. Keep up the great work!
So many cool creature designs and ideas I've seen from this channel.
The only Horror Characters/Monsters I knew before this channel was just several variations of some murderer who can't die, or really old and classic creature features.
Thank you, Roanoke, for converting the measurements into Eagle Units. It's the only measuring system I understand as a pure-blooded American.
I prefer to call them Freedom Units 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
god bless eagle units
They're not Eagle Units. They're Moon Units. Since if you look at the moon all the little bootprints say made in usa
@@josesaldana9252 Moonits!
@@josesaldana9252ironic because NASA used the Metric system for the calculations that got them to the moon 🤣
I’m surprised Roanoke hasn’t done any mass effect stuff. Sure there isn’t as terrifying of an existential threat as dead space but there is a lot to work with
He has actually!
Just search up "Mass Effect" in his videos, it's not a lot of them, but there is some there!
@@EXPfarmer yeah I only found 3 and they are over 5 years old! I’m sure he has probably got alot more to say in regards to the ME universe. And he has definitely gotten much better at making videos so a remake would also be appreciated
Moral of the story: insects are pure evil.
This was my first video I've seen from you, and I'm not gonna lie, almost stopped when I saw a couple of spider carcasses. But I stuck with it and I'm glad that I did. Because after that hurdle, the comedy gold starts lol. Some may not like your style, but I'm all for it. This was an easy like and subscribe from me. Cannot wait to dig into your channel to find more awesome videos
We got you! Keep your head up, man. You and I are going through the same thing, and I can empathize with the valley you've been forced into. Hang in there, as time will offer the opportunities needed to recover. Take the high road out, brother.
What happen to Roanoke
@@Za1diot le dot here, i really would like to know
He'll state it plainly when he's ready, otherwise I'd elaborate. But if you go back through his late three or four full videos, you'll understand immediately.
@Za1diot sounds like a breakup but I"m not sure
@RoanokeGaming it's a shame this had to be reuploaded, but what can we do? These bugs remind me of a sort of hivemind or flood-like entity...
Also what do you think about Borderlands and it's sequels?
For me it's not things that scuttle that get me. It's buzzing. The ground is not my enemy, but the skies
Honestly, you have made science so much more digestible. I sucked at science in college (c+ after trying 3 times lmao) and I swear I've learned more from listening to you than in school I just think that's funny/cool
I'm guessing that the entomologist in the comments section took offense to your theory Dr Roanoke and didn't take to kindly to it but nevertheless thank you for re-uploading this again.😂👍
As he said at 21:53 ants actually use spider, scorpion and even lizard's corpses they've killed to capture other insects or reptiles
So them super ants doing that to human corpses is accurate
So why are entomologists getting triggered at him pointing that out?
@@thepubknight6144I think it was meant as joke
*myrmecologist
Wow that's gotta be one of the most interesting creatures for a monster movie I've ever seen. Just imagine if some folklore monsters really were just things like this. Normal creatures that we didn't understand. I mean besides the obvious unicorns might have been rhinos poorly described.
Well, I would posit that many of these were probably just fanciful fossil interpretations (see dragons, etc.)
@@noahfuller4128Ike the cyclops possibly being made up because of elephant skulls with the giant hole where the trunk would be.
I remember this movie from twenty or more years ago. For some reason it really freaked me out. It wasn't scary, but I had to sleep with my tv on. I'm so amused that you're covering it. Love the video.
A gem, as always. I show up for the critter movie roasts and bio jargon, but i stay for the rambling and tangents 😂
I never heard of that Debone spell, but damn! That’s pretty horrifying.
Roanoke, just want to say you're one of my favorite content creators. I look forward to every video that comes out because I always learn something new and get a good laugh in a very quick paced respect your time format. All the memes (including the channel specific ones) are funny. You always find a way to make these movies/shows look stupid and sound cooler than they actually are. Anyway, keep up the good work.
And now ‘the ants go marching’ is stuck in my head yet again, my cat is still bobbing his head along with the tune… not again
I've been watching your videos for a few years now, and I'd like to say thank you for your hard work. You blend comedy with education in a very special way. So again, from Tennessee, thank you.
respect for the "ants go marching" on loop in the background
I appreciate the reupload. I do enjoy the amount of theory and fact you bring to these sci-fi movies and how on a scientific level they can absolutely happen.
Thank goodness you reuploaded this! Missed it otherwise! This thing is one of my favorite monsters portrayed in a movie.
listening to his videos honestly shows either just how much research goes into these movies or they just decided to roll the dice on if it made sense and Roanoke has so much knowledge that hes just able to deduce how they work why they work and what type of environment they came from
Keep up the hard work my man! You are easily my favorite CZcamsr - certainly the only one I subscribed to on Patreon! I have learned a ton of things from your channel and it's made me do a lot more of my own research. I know 2023 ended in... a way... for you, but keep your chin up! If what is happening is what I think is happening, I've been through it myself and you just need to look at yourself, fix what you can, and rally! You got this!
I love how roeanoke becomes more violently patriotic every video.
I find your random ramblings entertaining, so keep up the good work!
Playing Johnny Goes Marching Home is brilliant. On my old Atari (it had a cassette function, not a 2800) I had this ant colony game. You had to survive ant eaters, flooding, and other hardships. Fun little old-school game. But it playing Johnny as the music and I have never NOT associated ants (and bugs in general) to that music.
Thanks for that little blast back to 1982.
People ask "who is Roanoke?" But not "how is Roanoke?"
I’ll do you one better; “why is Roanoke?”
@@AKoboldonStiltsI'll do *you* one better
WHERE is Roanoke?
@@an-animal-loverI’ll do *you* one better; what is Roanoke?
"Ants Come Marching.." is a nice touch 👌
Your videos just give me ideas for D&D monsters!
Been watching for a long time, and hope you keep on making awesome vids!
this was one of my mom's favorite creature horror movie. I grew my love for creature features from her. Of course looking back now the movie isn't very good, but I used to be scared shitless by the skeleton-ant army in the movie as a kid.
Rewatching to support my favorite movie science guy person. Also loved this movie growing up. So glad you covered this.
Keep up the good work you legend! Love your stuff always watching trying to support 🤟
still in awe of how criminally under appreciated this channel is, love the content
This video helped put a name to the film I watched 20 years ago as a little kid but couldn’t remember the name of at all. For 20 years I had the scene where the creature tests the gas barrier at night stuck in my head, unable to find out where it’s from. Thankyou for finally giving me its name!
As a new subscriber to the channel, i vote for MORE tangents 😂 i love it & it adds to the experience lol also i laughed way too hard at 'I keep that thang on me, Goddammit Bobby' 🤣🤣
I, like many others, will just rewatch it. Thank you and have a great day Roanoke
Interesting how this movie requires a queen to act as a (very distant) central intelligence for the swarm. I would’ve assumed that it was just a case of highly complex emergent intelligence by the swarm itself (much like how ants & humans & slime molds can create highly efficient logistical paths without being conscious of it on an individual level). I think it’s the same thing that happens with Halo’s Hunter worms (which also walk like humans in the Nightfall miniseries).
Seems similar in design as the bigs from the first Starship Troopers - one big brain bug leading the swarm.
I love your random interjections. They are so fun and organic. It keeps things exciting
Crazy how long this past week felt without a video or two from you. Keep up the great work.
Kinda funny hearing about antibiotics for the flu. I'm from Oregon and at least here I haven't run into a doc that gives them for the flu. They're super touchy more often than not here.
Hey man, I’ve been a long time follower and always love your videos and stories. Ive noticed that you’ve keep mentioning that you’re going through some shit at the moment or using quips and whatnot about having a shit run, I hope you feel better soon brother, take some time for yourself and put yourself first. I’m sure we will all still be here when you come back, sending love from Australia 🤙🏼
Gonna be honest, if I was in a sandy desert area and I saw a bunch of halfburied trees I would think "I want to walk and sleep in that area".
I'd think "Boy there might be some hollowed out tree trunks that'll kill me via suffocation if I walk over them."
I'll rewatch (listen) to this tonight while I work. And I don't mind repeating my comment (seriously, though, CZcams, look out for your creators that are following copyright laws!).
Once again (with some changes cause I don't remember everything that I typed word for word): this gives me so many ideas. Just imagine if this species was given millions more years to develop this further. Imagine them evolving into a species that went into an extreme differentiated caste system that mimicked how cells dofferientiate to create a multi-cellular organims. It'd be like a man-o-war, a colony of individual organisms acting as a single organism. I can see the worker ants being the muscles and tendons; some honeypot ants storing food in the "stomach"; soldier ants acting as the "skin", protecting everyone underneath them with their tougher and thicker exoskeletons; a variant of the worker ants thay act as a food circulation system similar to blood vessels; and another worker variant thay acts as the nervous system, sending a chain of pheromone signals back and forth to and from the operating leader/captain ant.
I mean, right now you could easily compare how an ant colony works to how fungi works- spilling out its insides to explore the environment and eat. Just needs time to move up
Shame this needed to be reuploaded. Was a good video and loved how its a film ive seen and enjoyed. 😱 😨 man those ants made me uncomfortable
I've never seen any of the movies you cover, but based on your summarizations, it really seems like they go through all this build-up of a super scary and dangerous creature, and then defeat it really easily.
Love the colonial ass background music
I swear, there was a "Sci-fi channel original movie" with an eerily similar name and premise (bone monster chasing it's victims) but a completely different mechanics of how the monster worked (I don't quite remember the specifics, but I do know that the monster in that movie was outright supernatural)
"Bone Eater" if I recall correctly.
I remember that one, I think that one was more supernatural, like literal reanimated bone monster
Ah yes a new roanoke video time to get scientifically introduced to a new horror
3rd rewatch now, this is probably the best one you've ever done imo Roanoke, I absolutely love it. God damn❤
10:20 I do. Live and hang out there sandboarding mostly. Got stuck in the dunes last month for 6 hrs but luckily the ants didn't get us. 😊
Also, your editor is on point lately.
I like how this was about an ant colony In a bone mech suit but the music made me feel like I was about to march on the south to preserve the integrity of the union.
We’ll all feel gay when johnny comes marching home
Hats off to the editor - loved the cut at 10:53 when Roanoke was about to include the bald eagle measurement again
Found this channle like a month ago and im already like 60% through the catalouge , great stuff man keep it up
"I'd rather crap in my hands and clap" is a phrase I never thought I needed to hear 🤣
Great video as always, my dude!
Where is SPIDERS MAN when you need him?
I love these videos bc its science but in a fun and understandable way, every evening I rewatch some videos with a blanket and my cat in my lab, thanks Roanoke❤
Im new to the channel but I LIKE the tangents, that’s what made me subscribe! Especially the VERY valid Anglerfish slander lol
You turned me from liking pineapple to hating pineapple in around three to ten seconds.
Petition to have Roanoke start using measurements in bald eagles, whenever heathen units are used
I remember watching this movie with my dad. Thanks for bringing up that great memory of renting movies and watching monster movies
I'm now 60 percent of the way to completing an angler fish with rabies
I'd prefer dealing with the ant monster in the movie than a rabid angler fish.
Don't you dare!
This video made me itchy. Thanks, Roanoke! 👍🏽
Also, I thought these ants were somehow going to supernatural but nope. Just evolved.
thats a diffrent movie that i think roanoke covered.
@@NoahGooder I wouldn’t be surprised
I love how you science the shart out of all ur vidyas. Im in my 40s and the smart fella joke got my gizzard for a minute there.
Thanks again m8
Your content is probably the most entertaining that I watch on youtube. Thank you for your work.🗿
I absolutely love the educational nature of this channel. Your content is proof that learning can be fun
Also this movie is just a slightly more horrifying version of that one episode from The Tick cartoon.
I'll repost my comment.
Roanoke you should do a series about "What Will Survive" in which you pitt the various media horrors against each other and see who would win/flourish/doom humanity. Maybe a second channel idea!!
I have Roanoke Gaming to thank for introducing me to awesome movies. You are great my dude!
I cannot describe the joy that it gives me when he describes distance in bald eagles
Was hoping you’d bring up the fact that ants give you backshots when they bite you LOL
Great video
They what ???
@@isabellarandolph392 yea so basically ants will latch onto you with their mandibles for a firm grip then repeatedly hump you with their back stinger
Roanoke... I just have to ask. It seems you are going through some hard times. Is there anything you need?
This reminds me of those Amazonian army ants. Heard an entire audio drama about a plantation fighting then off with gas, flames, and eventually flooding the place because they ran out of gas. I'll never forget the way they described the ants killing the surrounding wildlife. "After six minutes, only the white, polished bones of the stag remained."
Man i love this channel. all this science talk gonna make me a scientist just like Roanoke
I'm not sure where the impression that the queen is directing other ants (in real life) is coming from. Eusocial doesn't mean "hive-mind" like in sci-fi.
My understanding is that a queen is just the only reproducing female of the colony. She doesn't really have any control over the other ants, and especially not over ones any distance away from the nest (how would that even work?). The ants just instinctively know to protect and keep her fed, because that's the reproductive strategy they evolved to follow. And since each member is acting on instinct, a smarter queen wouldn't be able to change the behaviour of the rest of the colony (though if the colony as a whole got smarter then yes, we're going somewhere). It would just be more aware of its own place in it.
The only reason killing the queen kills the colony is because it means no new ants are being born (at least, in species where the queen cannot be replaced). The rest of the colony can often go on largely as normal for a short time until they begin to die off.