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  • 5/20/2025
Documentary about the world of the African driver ant, a sinister army of 20 million sisters which thrives by ravaging t | dG1fMFpFR1dXa3BiWDg
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00:01The entire army is mobilizing.
00:11The raiding parties head out to the last place they had found food,
00:15where they had pinned down the few winged termites.
00:30The bearing they've taken is leading them straight towards the termite mound itself.
00:48Ants and termites have been adversaries for over a hundred million years.
00:53Now their armies of today are on a collision course.
00:57But without any physical contact, the blind army is as unaware of the termites ahead
01:03as the termites are of the approaching ants.
01:08They begin to swarm over the outside of the termite towers
01:11that for the moment appear to them to be just mounds of dried mud.
01:27Guards are posted, while others explore every crevice for any sign of food.
01:41First contact. The ants know there's something here
01:44and change direction towards the alarm signal.
01:47They mass around, the guards alert for any unpleasant surprises.
01:51This is unknown territory. Anything could be lying in wait down there.
02:04A worker gingerly explores the gaping hole
02:07and a scouting party lays a scent trail for others to follow.
02:11Activity increases. An assault is on.
02:28Other ants have found the termites foraging tunnels and scramble inside.
02:33The tunnels are narrow and not at all like the open spaces driver ants prefer.
02:43Termite soldiers with enormous jaws and heads prepare to check the incursion.
02:53A soldier termite confronts the invaders with a threat display.
02:57But it's not going to impress a driver ant.
03:07The ants penetrate deep into the nest.
03:10And the residents intensify their warning.
03:18First blood is to the termites.
03:20But the tunnel guards are in danger of being overrun.
03:36The ants break through the first line of defence.
03:38If the tunnel guards were around, in the sea.
03:39The newly escaped cratered into the tunnel.
03:44Thecri hora's back into the tunnel.
03:46The Munro.
03:47The corpus a year's훈.
03:48The solarium.
03:49The solution will be to the north and not only to the north and south.
03:52The tunnel guards are in danger of being overrun.
03:54The southward of the tunnel.
03:55Located to the southward of the tunnel.
03:57Maury must be here.
03:58To the north and north.
04:01The wind has a disaster.
04:02The time will be here.
04:04Instead of the during the tunnel.

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