Amazing Video of Fire Ants Making a Living Life Boat

Posted by Queuebot in Animal, Video Clips on August 13, 2009 at 4:47 pm



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A little flood isn’t going to stop a couple thousand of good fire ants in the Amazon jungle. Take a look at this amazing BBC Wildlife video of how fire ants crossed a river by forming a "living" life boat made with their own bodies.

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10 comments to "Amazing Video of Fire Ants Making a Living Life Boat"

  1. coconutnut
    August 13th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Ants are the best. They have an answer for everything.

  2. sc0tty
    August 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    That was pretty cool. Wonder if they'd turn around if an ant fell overboard.

  3. SenorMysterioso
    August 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    they creep me out

  4. Morgan
    August 13th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Ah! That was so gross!

  5. dooflotchie
    August 13th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

    Hey, look everyone...ants don't just do this in the jungle! They'll do this in any place that gets flooded. If you have to walk around in the water, watch out for these floating "ant rafts" and stay away from them. If they get on you, you'll have hundreds of pissed-off ants crawling all over you and it's gonna SUCK!

  6. Ant Dude
    August 14th, 2009 at 1:16 am

    Ants FTW!

  7. Lasse
    August 14th, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Ants are scary. They are going to take over the planet at some point if we don't do something.

  8. Halcyon
    August 14th, 2009 at 9:39 am

    I think I'm gonna go stay at Leiningen's place for awhile.

  9. gabe
    August 14th, 2009 at 9:51 am

    did anyone else cheer when they made it to land? i did

  10. Tamahome Jenkins
    August 14th, 2009 at 9:56 am

    dooflootchie's right. I saw some ants doing something like this after a hurricane in Florida once.


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