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Army Ant Death Spiral

submitted by Vexus

8 years 8 months ago

Scientists are completely sure why this happens they suspect something to do with their pheromones getting out of whack, but they go until exhaustion and death in this circle

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Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, September 4th, 2015 11:09am PDT - promote requested by original submitter Vexus.

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Mysterious video of ants circling an iPhone has been added as a related post - related requested by Vexus.

> but they go until exhaustion and death in this circle

So a scientist with a piece of cardboard could save 10,000 lives here

"Scientists are completely sure..."

I think that was supposed to be "Scientists aren't completely sure..."

Whoops

"Scientists are completely sure..."

I think that was supposed to be "Scientists aren't completely sure..."

ant

Perfect tune.

They're probably all saying (scenting?) "follow me".

Impressive. It's rare that scientists ever announce they're completely sure about something.

"Scientists are completely sure why this happens..."

That song for me is indelibly associated with the bad part of the internet.

*music, *nature, *fail

Adding video to channels (Fail, Music, Nature) - requested by Zawash.

jokingly says...

Of course, this is from southern Ecuador. On the part of Equador north of the equator they go clockwise. This is why so few army ants are found in the arctic regions, where the coriolis effect is much stronger.

I'm always surprised someone hasn't scooped up "Army Ant Death Spiral" as a heavy metal band name.

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