Meat Ants | The Kickboxing Ants From Down Under
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- An original documentary on Australia’s iconic “Meat Ants” (Iridomyrmex purpureus), also known as “Rainbow Ants”. From their massive colonies and nest structures, to their fierce ability to overwhelm their victims, to the way they kickbox to resolve conflict, to their avid farming of leafhoppers and aphids...Meat ants are some very fascinating ants indeed!
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I think what is most interesting about Meat Ants is the way they fight other meat ant colonies. It is very cool to see how they establish territorial boundaries by almost having "duels". It looks as if they are slapping each other with their front legs haha. Instead of killing the other colony and being detrimental to the overall species' success, they find a way for both groups to survive and thrive!
I didn’t know , but am absolutely amazed at how the workers help young queens build a nest, and make her a satellite colony, and even more impressive when they ADOPT her into their own colony, truly fascinating!
Thank you for the great videos
The most interesting thing to me about the meat ants is how upon stumbling across a wingless queen they will bring them to their nest or help her create and maintain a nest for her. Incredible how loyal they are to growing and maintaining their species.
That is so cool!
... "Civilized territorial dispute" ( T-poses and begins to slap each other in the face until one backs down ) >)X^D
Almost 8 months since the last video. Where did the time go...Hope it was worth the wait!
And THANK YOU for helping me reach 80K subscribers!!
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Can you do a face rev plssss
I’m honestly so glad you’re back
Honestly so glad youtube recommended this to me. I've been binge watching your videos all evening! All super interesting and presented in a calm, relaxing manner. Its also clear you are very knowledgable and have done your research on these ants. Keep up the good work.
just found your channel, always been interested in ants since a kid back in the 70s, fascinating little bastards, although back then i was a bit of a barbarian dealing with them, if i had the tech back then it would have been nice, anyway good for you and thanks for giving me something pleasant to watch. keep up the good work.
The thing I found most interesting about meat ants is how they have an extremely complex behavior towards others of their own kind, and how they will help and take care of closely related queens and even go far as letting them in their nest.
Very interesting. Curious how this species will evolve in a couple 100 millions of years into the future if man kind is no longer dominant will these guys rise up? I bet they may be less savage than us
@@texmexspm what you betting?
@@texmexspm No living creature will ever match the savagery of the human race. Consequently, neither will they match our capacity for compassion.
Tracker947 ants can go crazy and go smart going to space in some stuff.
@stretch lol, I really laugh at my old comments
The thing I find most interesting about meat ants is the sheer effect they can have on the environment around them! I spotted a nest while working the other day and in addition to the large cleared area for the nest itself it had two large 'highways' leading away from it. One of which broke even further into two trails! Such an industrious species.
7:16 "Meticulously carried home." It proceeds to bite drop and kick it repeatedly...Do you work for UPS?
Scott Hall no probably amazon prime
Lol
When i read it first time i thought it said drop kick
@@yuanharveyfabellon4696
Its still valid lol
That's almost not funny! :) I've had enough things broken....sigh
I love how they protect their own queens and helping them founding a new colony to expand their colony and how they solve conflicts with kickboxing instead of "real" fighting (/until the other is dead).
He doesn't drop videos very often but when he does they are masterpieces.
Well worth waiting for
The Man Himself spot on totally agree...also well worth supporting on Patreon
So true!
I found the fact that they are immune to cain toads poison to be the most intriguing for me, knowing the toads have been an epidemic in Australia as an invasive species it's good to know they're developing natural predators
I was fascinated by the unique method of nearby colonies helping queens grow out their own colony. I have never heard of a species of ant that does anything similar to this, and I was amazed that these ants were able to develop all these spectacular attributes.
You are my favourite ant CZcamsr
I absolutely love your videos
I find it very interesting that such strong and powerful ants instead of absolutely destroying each other they kick box
Great to hear. Thanks so much :)
Ants Australia replay to mine it’s why did you not upload
@@aaronross7669 he's dropping documentaries that's a lot more work then just filming a terrarium even tho he wasn't uploading he was putting in some work over the time
@@JordanDeanFilms not gonna lie i love ants Canada as well you both put on a good show in different way's i think your music choice is tops btw :)
@@aaronross7669 idiot
The most intresting thing about meat ants is how similar they are compared to wood ants. With their huge mounds, long trails, many nests, even many queens. Not to forget how aggressive both are and how important both are to the ecosystem. I just love watching wood ant trails in the wild.
Yeah definitely cool to see how similar behaviors evolved across the world.
Oh shit we have ant channels for quite a few countries. Still waiting on AntsAmerica and AntsUK though...
I grew up with meat ants. Watching them take apart other ants nests and termite mounds will stay with me forever.
Giveaway: My favorite thing about meat ants is how like army ants, new queens will sometimes be assisted by workers from similar colonies.
The thing that interests me about meat ants, is that they tend to help other meat ant queens when they’re done with the nuptial flight and drop down to the ground. I have never heard anything like this before and it fascinates me. Meat ants really care for the survival of their species.
The Bull ant at 9:40 was a foraging Queen!
Well spotted ;)
My favorite thing about the meat ants is the generosity of the worker ants who find the queens that are trying to nest. A very unselfish move to help the new nest become founded. We can learn alot from these ants :D
The kickboxing is the best part, surely. It’s a bit like how siblings go around their conflicts haha.
What an amazing documentary, I'm completely amazed by the quantity and quality of information you have managed to exposed in such a well put and composed video!!
My favorite thing about meat ants that I saw in the video is probably not exclusive to meat ants but is quite fascinating to me. Around 9.20-9.25 when the ants are fighting the wasp you can see a poor ant with her body severed in half. Even in her completely devastating condition she still appears to try to bite on to its prey to help her sisters, for me showing how little "
thought" she is putting on to her well being when an important item is being acquired for the colony. This for me shows the hive mentality this specie and many other possess.
A couple of days I caught an ant queen but I've still been unable to identify her, I'm probably not too good at it xD if anyone has the knowledge to ID her I would be very pleased, there is a clip of her interacting with her test tube set up, it's the only video on the account (queen caught in Portugal near a river).
Also if by any chance this comment manages to win the context and she manages to start a colony i'll put her on to the acrylic nest and do my best to update on her on another video to show you how she did!
Thank you again for your amazing content and for the inspiration to learn more about, and appreciate the amazing creatures that ants are!!
The Dance of Life I can gladly help ID her for you! Share me a photo!
I find the kickboxing hilarious. It's like a slap fight between siblings.
I found that the way of kickboxing to solve problems is most interesting about these meat ants. Also, their unique behaviour to accept other newly mated queens or caring for them is quite amazing.
What I find most interesting about meat ants is the way they treat foreign colonies and queens.
I'm used to species being either super accepting of their own species and merging colonies all the time, or clashing and being completely at odds with one another. Seeing meat ants use civil battles to resolve territory disputes is fascinating and clever, and the way they treat new queens is possibly even more so.
It's another incredible way some species can avoid dying when the queen does, alongside colony merging, cloning, and using gamergates. And I can only imagine the kinds of numbers meat ant colonies could produce when joined up with a dozen queens as you brought up in the video.
YES OH GOD YES FINALLY ANOTHER ANTS AUSTRAILIA VIDEO!!!
Why don't you post more often ;)
He doesn't enjoy it unfortunately
@@vandecayear10 What? Making vids?!
@@vandecayear10 what do you mean, he
1 makes money from this
2 can advertise his store, and
3 he love ants, and enjoys getting money from something he likes to do!
@@spontaneouscreativity6858 in a Q&A on his Instagram someone asked him when the next video would be like 2 months ago. He replied with probably never because he enjoys taking his setups around to schools and teaching people and selling his products, but that CZcams was never for him and that he gets no enjoyment out of it.
@@vandecayear10 😭 I has theee depression 😭
I love how cute meat ants look when they “kickbox” to resolve conflict because I have never heard of a more unique way of resolving a conflict in the ants world
In my opinion i find it the most interesting how the colony treats the queen and help other queens while they are starting their colony
The thing I find most interesting about meat ants is honestly their nest structure. I think it is amazing how just one colony can spread out over many hundreds of meters, like one giant creature engulfing the landscape, or a huge city of little purple ants. Astounding. I must say, as a European, I am so jealous of your fauna over there. Keep on posting these fantastic videos!
As an Aussie I can tell you that it is no fun stumbling across one of these nests and getting bitten and stung. My great grandmother stepped onto part of a bull-ant nest which collapsed underneath her - she had to be hospitalised. A bit too much fauna if you ask me!
I thought the kickboxing was hilarious, definitely my favourite part about meat ants. So civil haha
A new video! Let’s go! 😁 keep up the good work and awesome videos. What I find most interesting about meat ants is the way they settle conflicts with other meat ant colonies. Instead of immediately trying to kill each other, they posture up giving their opponent opportunity to back away, like a warning. Then if neither ant backs away they proceed to “kickbox” which I find very cool and unique. It’s definitely a more civil way. Sadly, some people can’t even settle conflicts like that. It’s also very cool how the ants stay postured when they win as if bragging
PS I am new in ant keeping and just caught five queens, I am not sure whether they are Tetramorium caespitum or pheidole megcephala
HyewonZA share some photos. I can gladly help you get the exact species!
James Likes Memes Every queen except for one survived and they all have workers. I will try to get some pictures
@@HyewonZA sure. check the spine between the gaster and the mesosoma. Usually, tetramorium will have a more sharply shaped spine.
James Likes Memes I don’t think they are tetramorium or pheidole. Also how should i send you the pictures
James Likes Memes sorry but the ants are very small and I don’t have a very good camera. I live on Oahu so maybe I can check what species live here to see if they look like the ants i have
You’re like an Australian David Attenborough of the ant world. I love your videos and how well they’re edited, and I was sooo happy to see a new one appear!!
The thing I find so interesting about meat ants is their attitudes towards the queens. Helping them out if they land nearby is one thing, but helping them dig out a nest and actually sticking with them whilst they create a new colony? That’s adorable.
I own a colony (2 years old) of meat ants and keep them in a natural nest with a tree in the centre, I find it interesting how they will often take off small pieces of the bark and use them as scaffolding for they’re nest hills
Ant Giveaway:
My favorite thing about meat ants is that they have a civil way of solving issues, where other ants tend to fight, also I caught a spider ant queen.
Nice!
Spider Ants are so amazing. What luck!
NICE! Those are incredibly rare queens. Good luck and I hope that colony of yours succeeds! 👍
So jealous, I live in Cali and could never have a spider ant colony :(
Anthony Lemaster earthworm sally carrying diseases from Florida to Cali (from florida to Cali)
You posted the perfect video for me at the moment. I’ve been looking for meat ant info for a little while because I was thinking of getting a colony for my self
Same name!
What interests me the most about meat ants is the way how they strategically choose the mutualistic relationships that benefit them the most. For example, when they stop protecting a tree and protect Its parasites instead because they give better amounts of food
What I find most interesting about meat ants is how they will help other Meat ant Queens build founding chambers. I just find that so nice of them! I really need that’s founding nest for my tetramorium queen! Love the work you do!!
I love how meat ants almost have their own community, they figgt to solve conflicts and have a huge interconecting city and they do everything together and there are different groups. Its almost like its own country/nation.
I'm not an expert but I think all ants are like that
@@spontaneouscreativity6858 not necessarily to the same extent though. Some species, particularly the larger sized ones, have much smaller and more insular colonies.
@@Swingingbells thank you for clearing that up for me, because I was a little confused.
You are such a cool ant youtuber and when you didn't upload I was very sad.
pls upload more
9:50 Ooooh, I've never seen actual ant mouth-parts in use before. This little ant nibbling the goop is adorable.
The thing I found most interesting about Meat Ants is how they can help new queens make nests and can become part of the colony! I really love polygeny so this is a really cool thing I learned! Thanks Ants Australia!
How’s it going with all the stuff down there? Hope you’re okay.
I'm pretty sure Jordan is doing okay. I think he's an educator in real life and like to do hands-on stuff with kids at live exhibits.
I hope he is too, I emailed him a good couple months ago asking about replacement parts for some of the YTONG nests he sells, and haven’t gotten one back since. Remembered about all the stuff happening down there and got a lil worried, but I’m sure the comment above is probably right.
ThatGuyThatHasThisAccountOnlyToLikeVideos follow him on insta hes fine and a new vid is coming out soon about weaver ants
*Stuff intensifies*
@Lalalola yeah he does, also shows off his setup on actually how he does the filmwork behind the scenes every now and then
It's my first time hearing of these meat ants, honest! Everything about them is very new and interesting to me, but I really like how they might adopt and take care of new, young queens of their own species. I've heard of other ant colonies doing this as well, but the chances of the queen actually getting adopted seems low in these other species. The meat ants seem more open about it to me, and the way they'll even help the queen make a new nest somewhat baffles me, and warms my heart haha
I've also recently found your channel, and I've been waiting for a new video, and I really like the way you do your job
I'll be patiently waiting for your next vid! Take care good sir
What I find most interesting about Meat Ants is that they change the colour of the stones on top of their nest depending on what the season is going to be like. If it's going to be hot they add lighter stones, if it's going to be cold they add darker stones. Amazing how they know. Great video. Love your work.
I think it's really cool how aggressive these ants are, the fearlessness that it takes to gang up on a wasp is really cool. But honestly with them being so warlike, the care that they show when they come across a newly mated queen was astounding. The well rounded personalities of these ants was really cool to learn about.
What I found interesting about meat ants is not only their similar appearance to spider ants or wood ants but how they are keen in giving up time and energy to help a foreign meat ant queen dig out her burrow or tending to her young. The ants are personally helping in order to obtain higher worker forces which definetly explains why they can reach such a colossal size
Evolutionarly it makes sence just like homosexuality does, and for exactly the same reason
Ant Giveaway:
The fact I found most astonishing was that they would assist other closely related queens in the construction of their closreral chamber and assist to the tending of their young.
P.s love your vids I'm 14 and think that your vids are amazing.
Seeing the dreaded jack jumper (bull ant) run from anything is amazing.
Thank you so much for captioning all your videos. It really helps deaf, hard of hearing, and those with auditory processing disorder really sit back and enjoy the ants without having to struggle to understand or fumbling with auto captions. It really shows you care, and I appreciate it SO much!! :)
What an awesome fotage!!! Congratulations!
Ant contest and general rambling:
Meat ants have always fascinated me mainly due their being a large abundance of them all around my neighborhood especially at my school, and their fierce and relentless desire to protect their colony, sisters and mother from anything. Near the main entrance right next to the path, there is a massive meat ant nest that stretches about three meters across full of millions of hungry ravenous worker ants that appear every time someone strays near there nest for too long or when school ends..... They swam the path every afternoon causing people who unfortunately have to cross paths with them them to sprint in fear and hope they didn't mange to collect any stowaways in their shoes. But if you, one of the rare and unlucky ones who manged to gather a few new.....friends.....then you will certainly know as they bite you and tear at the tender flesh of your ankles in a desperate fury to protect their colony from a potential danger that is you. I also find it interesting that they can have many satellite nests, like at the nests at my school. I always thought these were rival nests and was confused as to why the smaller nests weren't decimated by the larger one, until I saw this video (thanks for clearing that up).
P.S: You make fantastic videos, especially the documentary's about all the weird and wonderful ant species. Also thank you for getting me into ant keeping as I have just got my first colony of adorable big headed ants in a test tube set up an i'm starting to build a all in one ant nest due to the tutorial you had post a while ago. If you find this story interesting I would love the helpful boost of winning that starter pack to move my ants into once they have got a few more workers.
Thanks - Joseph
Likely the best ant youtuber there is. I really liked how the meat ants kick box, its a really unique behavior.
Why does this channel not have a million + subs? With this video alone he should have 500k subs. The work put into this video alone wow just wow dude
The "kickboxing" is like an anime fight where the fists are blurred because they're moving so fast.
I wanna see slow-mo footage of an ant kick-box fight.
Right on .. I too would love to see a Slow-mo ..if anyone knows of such a vid please share .. it would be greatly appreciated by many.
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Welcome from the AA family!
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Everyday I learn something new, today I learned a whole week of something new all in one video.
The thing i find so interesting about meat ants is their cooperation together in forming different colonies. Sometimes cooperation is very important in life
What a informative well made documentary! You have my like for sure!
Since Ants Canada only does Clickbait and Fake-ant-drama nowadays you and nordic ants have become my favourite informative ant youtubers. Keep up the good work!
The poor dude does a decent job considering he has to produce an episode _every week._ Even with a large number of captive ant colonies, there's not THAT much exciting stuff going on to produce a quality 20 minute video every week. That being said, when interesting stuff actually does happen, he'll get it in his video. It's the philosophy of having 1 really good video every month, or 4-5 videos a month, only one or two of which is actually interesting. I'm not sure what the best thing is in terms of overall content quality, but as far as playing the CZcams game goes and satiating the algorithm, posting regularly is probably the better move, even if it results in inconsistent quality.
@@theftking I agree. I can understand why Mike does what he does. However watching him feels to me like i am wasting my time when he tries to stretch material for 5 minutes into 20 minutes. I mean he has some success sohe must be doing something right. However i have grown tired of his kind of videos and will stick to the channels i mentioned above. By the way thx for your civilised reply. It is these kind of comments i feel its worth replying to. Have a great day, keep calm and Hail Hydra!
Hail Hydra! “Hail Hydra”
I find it very special that the meat ants will, instead of killing newly mated queens, will put in the effort to help raise their brood or even transport them to the main nest even with the risk for their own lives. That they will even start a satellite nest with these queens is really cool to see.
Glad to have you back!
What a brilliant video. Outstanding production and such a quality find on CZcams.
My favorite thing about meat ants is how they solve their territorial disputes in a mutualistic civilized way, benefiting both colonies at the expense of none. I wonder why other species don’t also use this method.
Read about evolutionary stable strategies, it explains it
Keep up the great work I love your channel.
Congratulations to tassie ants and Dave’s ants for winning!
Thank you for giving me a heart!
You are an inspiration to us all!
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this.
My favorite thing about Meat Ants is how they set up empires. They carve roads out of the countryside. Set up satellite nests (cities). At times civilly solve a neighborly dispute, but can go to war if called for. Absolutely fascinating stuff you showed me in this video. Thanks you Ants Aus.
definitely the most informative and well-shot video I've ever seen on ants! seriously dude, good job!
Im amazed by their social network BUT how they treat queens!!!!
If she breaths, SHE'S A THOOOOOT!
my favourite thing about iridomyrmex purpureus is how they kickbox to calmly solve clashes between rival colonies, and how they do this until one worker submits to the dominant rival worker as well as this I like how their genus name is kind of based of their iridescence from blue to purple its also cool how they block off other ants nests to limit the rival colonies foraging.
The thing that I find most interesting is their "kickboxing" I think it's hilarious to watch but also fascinating.
Thanks for another great video.
Proverbs: Go to the ant - Consider her ways.
Meat Ant: I say, we shall endeavor to settle this like Gentlemen - Put'm up!
Like playing a game with friends when I was younger were we would be see how long we could put your hands onto the nest for
If you play that game with these guys you could judge the winner based on who had the least amount of flesh left on their hand.
@@PTCX there is a video online with a guy feet black with ants. They surprisingly don't bite you straight away..
My favorite thing is that they seem to regard other colonies even potentially other meat ant queens which could be competition later as friends and even help dig their claustrual chambers for them.
That teamwork was amazing to watch when displayed by the ants.
Great videos keep it up!
Super impressed with the quality of these videos! Thanks for educating!
How smart are ants exactly. Like they just know wtf is going on all the time. Team work, problem solving, like do they have emotions? 😂
Ants don't have emotions. They do what they do because of instinct. They are organized, but they really don't have intelligence as we humans measure it.
Ants are very intelligent
@@ColonelMetus No, afraid to say they aren't.
@@bolt1437 I saw this movie about ants where they have their own cities and stufd
I really like ants, I love looking at them, I love observing them the ants is super smart, they are so brave, if it was me I would run away thanks for reading my comments!!!!😀
I think their roads are far and away the most interesting aspect of meat ants. It's really amazing how long and well-maintained they are.
I love your production quality on these
Its very hard to pick one thing specially interesting about meat ants because of the large amount of bizarre actions they perform. Personally I think the most interesting thing about meat ants could be how "smart" and creative their problem solving seems to be (helping other queens, kickboxing with their neighbours, ect) and how each ant appears to have such a surprising amount of personality for a creature that small. My dad thinks the most interesting thing about meat ants is how "they're the world's best traffic engineers because they never seem to have an ant traffic jam", lol😂.
I was about to compare to Ants Canada but there is no comparison this was well done sir i'm subbing
Fantastic videography and editing, as per usual, Jordan. Love it! ❤️
thanks for posting again jordan i love your videos and you make me smile
Ants Canada: I am the best Ant CZcamsr
Ants Australia: Hold my beer
I'm just surprised there's more than one "ant youtuber" since being a ant fanatic on CZcams is quite unique
Lol love it XD
Damn, not even that much of an ant-guy, but I just finished watching a 27 minute video about ants. That was really interesting, great job dude! Subscribed as well, you might've just converted me to the religion of ants.
I really like their social behaviour, including their way to expand and settle conflicts (within their own species)
Man, I just stumbled onto this video, but I am hugely impressed with the quality of it. Way to go! I really enjoyed it!
I could compare the sensation of finding out about a new Ants Australia video to watching as a queen gets her fist workers.
ॐ गणेश ॐ really?
Why arent there 10 like buttuns then I would have smashed all of them!
Dude I just want you to know you’re documentaries are so cool, and I find their attacks are the coolest thing about them
Meat Ants... Well initially their name was pretty darn interesting. If only i knew their behaviours would truly blow my mind. Not only is their stature and their apperance appealing to me as I prefer larger ants, but their behaviours hold the key to my heart. My true favorite aspect about these little bugs is their conpetitiveness. Seeing something as small as just a bug, striving to be the best at what they do, even normal ant things, is truly inspiring. Their desire to be the best at what they do often leaves me thinking, if they strive to be the best, even just as ants, I should too.
Thanks for considering me, my young camponotus colony could really profit from this
LOL! 😂 (Subbed) 👍
I think this video came up in the 'recommended' for me because I have subscribed to Boxing & Martial arts channels...
Go Aussie!
Well look who woke up
Jk I know to have this amazing quality, u need a ton of time
I love your new videos.
Talk about a come back!
Well done.
This documentary is AMAZING. I wonder how much effort was needed to make this.
I think its really interesting how they kinda kickbox to resolve a conflict unlike other ant species
Can you introduce myrmecocystus mimicus please
Liker svp
TerraFire tf mimicus is in CA
Finally a new video. Please make more whenever it's possible.
Unexpected that a 'smaller' channel would have such high quality. A really great video, thank you very much
Would love to see a camponotus video some time soon ! Great work !
I love the kickboxing way to resolving conflicts.
The thing I like most about meatants is how they are built, they remind me of a weaver ant with the head of a Camponotus. Also how they build trails to connect different things, kinda like streets and highways for ants to connect the different satellite nests
It was like a treasure trove of knowledge about ants and I appreciate every single soul who was a part of this amazing documentary. Totally loved it !!!