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RDF TV - Ants that farm, compost and weed - Richard Dawkins

submitted by BicycleRepairMan

1 decade 5 years 4 months 1 week ago

Richard Dawkins explains how fungus-farming ants from Central and South America make their living.

Download Quicktime version (720p HD):
http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c116791/Ants2.mov

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During Richard Dawkins' 2009 American tour, we visited Judy Diamond's "Explore Evolution" exhibit at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln. This exhibit has now been replicated in six museums around the country. While visiting we filmed a collection of short unrehearsed and unscripted videos—just inspired by the "Explore Evolution" exhibit.

See the "Explore Evolution" web page here:
http://explore-evolution.unl.edu/

Special Thanks to:
Dr. Judy Diamond
The University of Nebraska State Museum
http://www.friendsofthemuseum.org/

Camera & Music by
Josh Timonen

See more at:
http://RichardDawkins.net

9 Comments

tsquire1 says...

Humans need to model their economies, government, etc off of models in Biology. Capitalism similar to a predatory system. Predators are extremely fine tuned for their job. Their evolution is spectacular. However, mutualistic organisms can exist in a much more peaceful manner with arguably just as much, if not more sophistication (in the evolutionary sense). Why model our lives on a win/lose instead of a win/win?

ant

Rad!!!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'ants, evolution, fungus, compost, weed, pest, symbionic' to 'ants, evolution, fungus, compost, weed, pest, symbiotic' - edited by kronosposeidon

ant

*promote because of ants!

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, July 18th, 2009 2:39pm PDT - promote requested by ant.

get to work @ant

ant

>> ^rottenseed:

get to work @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/ant" title="member since March 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 136, 0);">ant

Make me!

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The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 2:22 - length declared by ReverendTed.

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