The Most Brutal Ant: The Slaver Ant Polyergus
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Everything changed when the slaver nation attacked. What used to be a thriving colony is now a captured country. Slaves do the work, serving their new masters until they die, only to be replaced by new victims harvested in brutal raids.
But let us go back to the beginning…
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“hold that thought…” The old carrot on the string trick so overused in YT videos of late.
Stop it. It’s annoying.
@MrSlipperyseal It is … but hey, they has monkies!
What happened to your soundtracks? are you reusing old ones?
I thought carbon offsets was a bullshit way to stop climate change tho
lol they use a law rune from runescape on thier website. Aslo I wish they would have link to solar panel programs or whatever that can reduce footprint while benefiting you. I feel that would make a bigger difference than just planting trees or whatever.
It’s astonishing for a singular ant to even have the chance of taking over an entire colony
They’re like Bannerlord players trying to cheese a siege solo.
rip and tear, until it is done.
It wants its own kingdom. Its a Barbar Conant.
1 v million gigachad
@Lil’ Lae for all you know I’m an ant living in a world that created your tiny pocket dimension. We are a civilization of workers, we are one, we are many. What you call ants was our experiment to see if you were worthy or not. You failed, btw.
As a Polyergus, I found this video to be very informing and I thank you for giving me this knowledge to be able to enslave more colonies. I shall tell my queen about this. She’ll be thrilled
@RoarOfDamnation lol
@kirbodin lol
Yet, are _sure_ you are a Polyergus? Statistically speaking, you are more likely to be a brainwashed ant _fooled_ into believing yourself a Polyergus. Tell us, what do you do in your colony?
@Giovana Carla 0 they are bad at communicating, he is an enslaved worker ant who thinks he is a polyergus 🤣🤣🤣
*stomping noises*
the fact that ants can organize a raid on another ant colony is amazing, let alone the complexity of ant colonies in general
also the idea that they literally look for the babies specifically is kind of terrifying
@CageyBee All the definitions I find specify that a genocide is only a genocide if it aims at the eradication of a group. Firstly, Polyergus do not even try to kill anyone and instead try to win with their fast raid strategy, killing only as many as needed and getting survivors to surrender. Secondly, they specifically try not to eradicate colonies, so they can be raided again to abduct more victims. When you plan to let a large enough population alive from the very beginning you can hardly call it a genocide imo.
@Sirius GG forcibly transferring children of a group to another group is in fact considered a key and common element of genocide.
@Sirius GG no, actually kidnapping the children of your enemies is a legally recognized form of genocide. genocide means the eradication of a specific group of people, either by killing them or by forcefully assimilating them with indoctrination and/or enslavement. these insects killing adults and reprogramming babies would probably be considered genocide if ants could be tried in court.
@Sirius GG Doesn’t genocide also qualify as the eradication of a culture? The slavers are technically eliminating the old culture by growing the new babies in their colony.
@CageyBee “Regular” genocide isn’t even that rare in insects, but specifially abducting babies and raising them as their own makes this *not* a genocide, as genocide would mean to leave no survivers.
Sometimes, it feels like Kurzgesagt’s indirectly flexing on the fact that it can make super detailed animations too, and I’m all for it
Ant lifes seem to be really epic and almost read like Fantasy stories, with huge , sometimes flying Monsters, enormous LOTR-Style Battles and Wars, Queens engaging in 1v1 battles to the death and enslaving entire Colonies via “mind-tricks”. Sometimes Ants even infiltrate the almost Alien-Like homes of Giants
I used to have a colony of copper-colored slaver ants in my yard as a kid. I would watch them for hours, as they’d form a raiding party and travel sometimes a hundred meters to their target colony, then carry the eggs back. This video was a cool reminder, thanks!
@WaBBa4 that’s true
8%
@james d 8%
ok
😞
but I think you are one
you are 8%
8%
Bruh if i were you i would burn those filthy parasitic creatures with a magnifying glass.
@RATTLED no, no, just a very sleep deprived Canadian.
It blows me away how as a D&D DM, learning about ants consistently gives me the most ideas for D&D monsters and stories. Between this video and ZeFrank’s video about Army Ants, i’ve got enough to write an entire campaign.
I suggest checking out The Wandering Inn on Audible. In that series there’s a race of human sized ants. The first book only goes into a bit of detail about them, but later on you learn more.
please update the comment if you ever do write it
Every time I see one of your videos about ants, I’m just reminded of an old Animorphs book where they tried to become ants. There was a quote along the lines of, “if ants ever got their hands on nuclear weapons, they’d wipe out the world within a week”, and these just remind me that it’s so terrifyingly true.
I doubt it, their nukes would be waaay too small
Kurzgesagt never disappoints us when it comes to animations and information without us getting bored.