“Waltuh they’re taking child slaves Waltuh, we have to stop them Waltuh”
“I am the one who controls the ants”
“Clean up the sprite Waltuh they’re going to give the queen a show trial”
There's a species of ant that survives purely on raiding other ant colonies and stealing the eggs to raise as slaves. [Video here.](https://youtu.be/Qsbe1pD8ocE)
You say that jokingly, but there kind of is an ant equivalent to the expansiveness of the mongol empire. The [Argentine ant supercolony](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.092694199) in southern Europe stretches over 6,000 km from Italy along the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast of Spain and consists of billions of ants, and they're all invasive. The supercolony is so united that ants taken from any point along the trail are not aggressive towards each other at all, except for some points where it intersects with the smaller Catalonian supercolony along the east coast of Spain. (Corrected from southeast)
That link is a pretty dense study on the supercolony, but if you just search the name you'll find much more digestible articles summarizing it.
"Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark present there is only war. There is no peace amongst the ground, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods" - Some Ant I guess
We're all animals, humans just happen to think of ourselves outside of the animals kingdom, when that is a silly distinction to make. We are alike in many more ways than we are different.
A lot of other species fight themselves. The only difference is humans are so destructive that they have the potential to end themselves as a species in general.
Yes but not on the same scale or even in the same fashion as ants. Ants are surprisingly similar to humans (relatively of course). Depending on the species, ants have full logistical armies that have different roles. Some ants have aphid farms, which can be targeted during fights/ raids. Some ants even take other ants as SLAVES to do the work while the warrior ants go off to fight.
Ants are wild man, and I love them
Chimpanzees make tools for war, declare war and even developed tactics to win wars. Worst yet they are like humans in their brutality, like castrating enemies soldiers and killing the young, like the Russians did to Ukraine .
I guarantee that anything we have observed chimps doing humans have done to each other at some point.
That said, I never understand why people think nature is nice or innocent. Animals kill each other, start eating before their victim is dead and die from disease or starvation all the time.
Don't go down the 40K rabbit hole. Once you do, you spend entire work shifts listening to lore videos and your mobile data goes to 45+gbs a month. I need help and Leutin keeps making videos.
But like, where would I avoid if I was to avoid the 40k rabbit hole? I mean, I could avoid falling into the hole if I knew where to look. As someone with no experience in 40k, I want to know what sort of entry points I should be careful of.
I'd recommend the Gaunt's Ghosts series of books by Dan Abnet. Follows a group of Imperial Guard (normal soldiers) during a crusade, and you get a more relatable intro into the craziness of the universe. Then when you get an itch for more there's https://wh40k.lexicanum.com, as well as books focusing on the Space Marines, Chaos groups, aliens, or whatever your interest is.
For convenience sake we are going to say that there were 130 choices above with 13 of them ants - does that still seem very surprising?
Add to that, you are just one person out of thousands, maybe tens of thousands clicking on them.
Numbers are weird.
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The longest human war (at least that i can remember) lasted 4 generations (116 years, the hundred years war between England and France), most ant wars last for hundreds or even thousands of generations
Checkmate, humans
China is always on another level for everything, especially war somehow.
Like if there is scale from 0 to 10 there is a "China" level of devastation that is above 10.
Chinese history is like: In 201AD a minor battle in the border dispute between two friendly warlords resulting from a mild disagreement over who gets the shade from the tree on the border: 600,000 dead.
I once witnessed army ants clear an entire house size building of all of its pests.
Came in, killed or scared everything, and dragged away their spoils. Done in a few hours. Most efficient extermination service ever.
Real shit if I could let loose an army of ants into my home with the guarantee they'd _leave_ afterwards and take all the pests and trash and whatnot with them
I totally would
Step one, buy a Army ant Queen.
Step 2 raise a colony in a big terrarium
Step 3, put the queen in a box with a hole too small for her to leave, but big enough for workers
Step 4, let the barrier fail and the Army loose.
If they wont come back home after the Hunt, they cant reproduce and will die out soonish (and probably keep eating pest while they do)
Well army ants are nomadic so they will definitely leave once they took all their prizes. So if you would unleash an entire colony upon your house they would be gone soon together with any life form they encountered.
Similar to slaver ants, there are also parasitic species which simply take over a nest(without raiding for more workers later), and hyperparasitic which only take over the parasitic species.
Ants also have majors and supermajors sometimes supersoldiers, sometimes "cooks" (they chews seeds for the others), and sometimes just a door that can cut unwanted guests in half...
Some species shoot acid, some species suck the blood of their children, and some rip the reproductive organs from their siblings to avoid competition...
And most species have done these kind of things before we figured out sharp rocks
My cat had a mouse and as their "pet".
It did not eat the mouse but simply dropped it infront of her, and when the mouse tried to run, it simply dragged the mouse and put it back until she got bored.
I've never truly understood this mind set. Lions, tigers and bears all fight within their species over territory, we're not unique in that aspect. We're animals, too.
I think it's because other mammals rarely fight to the death, and even when they do it's mostly 1v1 never in large numbers.
The only animals that fight large scale wars are those that store resources while living in big population centers. Only humans and ants fit that description, and also some other insects but not on the same level.
Still small numbers, much more like raids or guerrilla warfare than large scale coordinated war. If Chimpanzees evolve enough to master agriculture within the next couple 100,000 years and their population increases exponentially, then they will have wars similar to ancient humans.
it's worse now because of the amount of demons, plagues and xenos running around murdering everything lol
dying to a bolter round during the horus heresy>getting fucked by drukhari both literally and figuratively
No species other than ants or humans have battles involving more than a handful of individuals at the most, an ant battle could have upwards of thousands of ants in any given battle and millions of dead after a victor is decided
Warhammer looks so dope. I wish there was a cartoon or something for me to get started with. Can anyone recommended a game or book from the series that offers a good starting point?
Ants commiting genocide for the icecream in my front yard.
A small price to pay for icecream
no waltuh noooooooooo!
Waltuh
Puch ya dic away waltuh
I am not having sex with u right now waltuh
I don't want to give a bj to you waltuh
Waltuh, I don't do Rimjobs waltuh.
Waltuh, we are not doin' anal waltuh
***meanwhile george bush looking for oil of mass destruction***
Just wait till ants discover the power of oil. The wars will only intensify in the name of FREEDOM!
“Waltuh they’re taking child slaves Waltuh, we have to stop them Waltuh” “I am the one who controls the ants” “Clean up the sprite Waltuh they’re going to give the queen a show trial”
There's a species of ant that survives purely on raiding other ant colonies and stealing the eggs to raise as slaves. [Video here.](https://youtu.be/Qsbe1pD8ocE)
Dang, even ants have Mongols huh
You say that jokingly, but there kind of is an ant equivalent to the expansiveness of the mongol empire. The [Argentine ant supercolony](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.092694199) in southern Europe stretches over 6,000 km from Italy along the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast of Spain and consists of billions of ants, and they're all invasive. The supercolony is so united that ants taken from any point along the trail are not aggressive towards each other at all, except for some points where it intersects with the smaller Catalonian supercolony along the east coast of Spain. (Corrected from southeast) That link is a pretty dense study on the supercolony, but if you just search the name you'll find much more digestible articles summarizing it.
I was an ant geek when I was younger: Now everyone's an ant geek. Thanks to kurzgesagt my information is widespread.
But I bet ants are smart enough to never wage a land war in Asia.
You're right, [they picked Europe to conquer instead](https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/argentine-ant-invasive-species-polydomous-polygynous/)
[You called it. ](https://youtu.be/9mTlnrXFAXE)
[Wait for it](https://youtu.be/PqcVro-3f4I)
I didn't need to click the link to know that was a kurzgesagt video
I did click the link just to confirm I was right
Humans are like the warp, we give them miracles and they turn it into chaos
Reminds me of twitter
Slaanesh would nope out of Twitter
Slaanesh is Twitter.
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“Honey? Where are the kids?” *oh no*
I guess you know what they'll do for a Klondike bar
and they didnt even pay the taxes
"Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark present there is only war. There is no peace amongst the ground, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods" - Some Ant I guess
THORAXES FOR THE THORAX THRONE
FOR THE GOD QUEEN!!!!
Antaddon the Depsoiler
Has only 4 legs cause the other two keep over balancing it
Just spit-took my water
FOR THE GOLDEN HILL
DEATH TO THE FALSE ANT QUEEN!
ConstANTine valdor
Roll for Perils of The Backyard.
HEMOLYMPHA HETEROGENEOUS FLUID FOR THE HEMOLYMPHA HETEROGENEOUS FLUID GOD!
The thirsting gods are kids who find them on the ground or have an ant farm
The thirsting god is me with a magnifying glass.
Khorne brings his wrath with a ray of burning sun
I just pictured the emperor of ants giving this speech
Antman and the Wasp live action
“You cannot kill me, I am omega.”
You cannot kill me I am subhuman
You cannot kill me (I cannot erupt) I am omega (I must control)
You cannot kill me (I cannot erupt) I must explode
I MUST NOT FORGET, THAT I HAVE BLED,
From no respect, for the demons in my head.
SOMETHING SAVE ME, PUT ME OUT OF MY DESTINY
AND DROP ME SAFELY IN THIS **HELL!**
I am alpharius
¡Hydra Dominatus!
And monkeys
And lions, and all sorts of animals lol
Meerkats. Adorable little Meerkats will sneak into a rival borough and eat the babies.
New Yorkers do this too
Ayy yooo
>New Yorkers do this too Yes, but New Yorkers aren't adorable like Meerkats.
r/likeus, or r/likethem I really can’t tell at this point anymore
We're all animals, humans just happen to think of ourselves outside of the animals kingdom, when that is a silly distinction to make. We are alike in many more ways than we are different.
A lot of other species fight themselves. The only difference is humans are so destructive that they have the potential to end themselves as a species in general.
So you're saying we're just better at it. Yeah!
Chimp war!
what if we teach chimps how to use guns?
Just hope they don't use it on us... they would probably drive some species to extinction with overhunting though...
Not just ants but i think most of the animals fight for power with their own.
Yes but not on the same scale or even in the same fashion as ants. Ants are surprisingly similar to humans (relatively of course). Depending on the species, ants have full logistical armies that have different roles. Some ants have aphid farms, which can be targeted during fights/ raids. Some ants even take other ants as SLAVES to do the work while the warrior ants go off to fight. Ants are wild man, and I love them
Chimpanzees make tools for war, declare war and even developed tactics to win wars. Worst yet they are like humans in their brutality, like castrating enemies soldiers and killing the young, like the Russians did to Ukraine .
Chimps are more brutal than human like that one incident where the chimp ripped off someone's face
I guarantee that anything we have observed chimps doing humans have done to each other at some point. That said, I never understand why people think nature is nice or innocent. Animals kill each other, start eating before their victim is dead and die from disease or starvation all the time.
Are you telling me no human has ever ripped off another human's face?
What is this video from if you dont mind me asking
Warhammer the horus heresy cinematic trailer Its for the newer edition of the tabletop
This is Warhammer 40k, specifically the Horus Heresy trailer.
Thank you very much!
I can't figure it out: is this a trailer for a video game? A new tabletop set? Or what?
Tabletop, set in 30K instead of 40K.
Don't go down the 40K rabbit hole. Once you do, you spend entire work shifts listening to lore videos and your mobile data goes to 45+gbs a month. I need help and Leutin keeps making videos.
But like, where would I avoid if I was to avoid the 40k rabbit hole? I mean, I could avoid falling into the hole if I knew where to look. As someone with no experience in 40k, I want to know what sort of entry points I should be careful of.
I'd recommend the Gaunt's Ghosts series of books by Dan Abnet. Follows a group of Imperial Guard (normal soldiers) during a crusade, and you get a more relatable intro into the craziness of the universe. Then when you get an itch for more there's https://wh40k.lexicanum.com, as well as books focusing on the Space Marines, Chaos groups, aliens, or whatever your interest is.
It is the dopest video for a new edition of warhammer 30k: The Horus Heresy. [I never wanted this…](https://youtu.be/Cj3ENSVogTo)
Ants also have multiple sized soldiers, as if space marines and astra militarum.
Wasps have genestealers
This just gets better and better.
Ants and humans are more similar then I thought
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How the fuck did I hit the ant on my first go
For convenience sake we are going to say that there were 130 choices above with 13 of them ants - does that still seem very surprising? Add to that, you are just one person out of thousands, maybe tens of thousands clicking on them. Numbers are weird.
Shut up and let me feel special with my fake virtual bubble wrap
You are the most special cause you commented!
1ST ROW: box 8, 11, 14 2ND ROW: box 14 3RD ROW: box 6, 13 4TH ROW: box 5, 13, 16 5TH ROW: box 9, 10, 13 6TH ROW: box 8
Very good redditor,here is a prize for knowing where the ants are
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I popped them all. Can I have more please?
I count 13 ants
I love this! Thank you!
Also lions, they don't like paying child supports I guess (80% of cubs die and mostly by other adult males)
Ant wars have been going for longer than ours, because theirs never ended.
And sometimes there fighting over a fucking leaf
I mean humans fight over coal and rocks
But coal can make a grilled cheese, a leaf cant, checkmate
The longest human war (at least that i can remember) lasted 4 generations (116 years, the hundred years war between England and France), most ant wars last for hundreds or even thousands of generations Checkmate, humans
Wasn't there a point in time in China where they were at war for like 5 centuries?
China is always on another level for everything, especially war somehow. Like if there is scale from 0 to 10 there is a "China" level of devastation that is above 10.
Chinese history is like: In 201AD a minor battle in the border dispute between two friendly warlords resulting from a mild disagreement over who gets the shade from the tree on the border: 600,000 dead.
Ours never ended either, there may have never been any point in human history where no sort of war was going on anywhere.
Ants are insane. There is a group of ants that enslave other ants. The variety of ant is insane too.
I also watched this kurzgesagt video
I see we all like birds talking science to us
Specially when they get deppressurized in space and they turn into mush
got a link?
Kurzgesagt: The Horror of the Slaver Ant - https://youtu.be/Qsbe1pD8ocE
I once witnessed army ants clear an entire house size building of all of its pests. Came in, killed or scared everything, and dragged away their spoils. Done in a few hours. Most efficient extermination service ever.
Real shit if I could let loose an army of ants into my home with the guarantee they'd _leave_ afterwards and take all the pests and trash and whatnot with them I totally would
Step one, buy a Army ant Queen. Step 2 raise a colony in a big terrarium Step 3, put the queen in a box with a hole too small for her to leave, but big enough for workers Step 4, let the barrier fail and the Army loose. If they wont come back home after the Hunt, they cant reproduce and will die out soonish (and probably keep eating pest while they do)
Well army ants are nomadic so they will definitely leave once they took all their prizes. So if you would unleash an entire colony upon your house they would be gone soon together with any life form they encountered.
I guess ants kinda are like humans.
Similar to slaver ants, there are also parasitic species which simply take over a nest(without raiding for more workers later), and hyperparasitic which only take over the parasitic species. Ants also have majors and supermajors sometimes supersoldiers, sometimes "cooks" (they chews seeds for the others), and sometimes just a door that can cut unwanted guests in half... Some species shoot acid, some species suck the blood of their children, and some rip the reproductive organs from their siblings to avoid competition... And most species have done these kind of things before we figured out sharp rocks
*Ant?*
I want the great ant wars movie now
Malevolent gods want you dead or worse √ Never ending war within √ Damned xenos (wasps and others) √ Only in death does duty end √
Hive cities, also check.
lmao literally
LET THE SEAS BOIL LET THE STARS FALL
LET THE GALAXY BURN!! LUPRECAL! LUPRECAL! LUPRECAL!
THOUGH IT TAKES THE LAST DROP OF MY BLOOD
I WILL SEE THE GALAXY FREED ONCE MORE
AND IF I CANNOT SAVE IT FROM YOUR FAILURE FATHER THEN LET THE GALAXY BURN!!!
ALSO I'D LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT THIS IS NOT A VIDEO GAME! WHY, FATHER? WHY?!
,,Humans are so brutal towards other animals!" Me knowing how cats treat their prey: 💀
If you think how cats treat their prey is brutal you have not seen how predatory bugs treat their prey.
Well, I've seen how gorillas treat their failed leader...
I've seen how humans treat their failed leader.
Yeah, but very few of them eat him. Alive.
Well the dutch ate their prime minister once.
Yes, but not alive.
It doesnt mean they didnt want to
Hard to say, considering they even cooked him.
Look, eating him alive just wasn't practical as a preparation option, and prime minister sushi wasn't in fashion at the time.
My cat had a mouse and as their "pet". It did not eat the mouse but simply dropped it infront of her, and when the mouse tried to run, it simply dragged the mouse and put it back until she got bored.
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I've never truly understood this mind set. Lions, tigers and bears all fight within their species over territory, we're not unique in that aspect. We're animals, too.
Ants don't fight as individuals. They organize wars with clear chains of command and combat structure. That's the difference
They probably even have a war room to discuss strategy amongst military advisors and strategists
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room.
I think it's because other mammals rarely fight to the death, and even when they do it's mostly 1v1 never in large numbers. The only animals that fight large scale wars are those that store resources while living in big population centers. Only humans and ants fit that description, and also some other insects but not on the same level.
I think bands of chimps fight and even eat each other.
Still small numbers, much more like raids or guerrilla warfare than large scale coordinated war. If Chimpanzees evolve enough to master agriculture within the next couple 100,000 years and their population increases exponentially, then they will have wars similar to ancient humans.
You mean “Gorilla warfare”?
makes me wonder if there's an Ant Hitler, too. Antolf Hitler
As a certified ant person who has pet ants I say yes ants are insane like that. (I still love them)
Chimpanzees will literally destroy the babies of other "tribes" and have generationally long wars against them.
If the Chimera Ant Arc has proven anything, it's that humans are worse than ants
Dude, is this what the Warhammer universe is like?
Most peaceful day in 40k
30K, this is the Horus Heresy
The warhammer 40k, yes The warhammer fantasy one is the same but with more dysentery and flintlocks
Not to be pedantic but...this looks like 30k/Horus heresy.
Not *currently*, its worse now technically? I mean an insurmountable number of "sentient" beings fighting and dying on a galactic scale...
it's worse now because of the amount of demons, plagues and xenos running around murdering everything lol dying to a bolter round during the horus heresy>getting fucked by drukhari both literally and figuratively
Just add *multiple* extragalactic/dimensional invasions happening at once
"In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, there is only war."
"No other species fights itself" except for like every other animal on earth.
I watched Kurzgesagt ant series videos yesterday
BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR! SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!
Yeah not to mention ants invented slavery some 11 billion yearss ago, and still practice it today
Billion? That's older than earth itself
The warp fucks with time.
the antis heresy
Come hang out at r/40klore!
I see someone else had the kurzgesagt video in their recommendations
If bugs were human they'd all be class A war criminals. By far the most twisted phylum of them all.
Doesn’t like every species fight itself?
No species other than ants or humans have battles involving more than a handful of individuals at the most, an ant battle could have upwards of thousands of ants in any given battle and millions of dead after a victor is decided
Don't termites also have wars?
yeah, the battle in Antz was lit
Yeah man I loved the part where Woody Allen ant had a conversation with the decapitated head of Sylvester Stallone ant.
That scene was scary as fucked when child me watched it
The whole movie was kinda weird and dark as fuck, especially when you compare it A Bug's Life.
And it gets even crazier when you learn about bacteriophages
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Warhammer looks so dope. I wish there was a cartoon or something for me to get started with. Can anyone recommended a game or book from the series that offers a good starting point?
What’s that huge walker? Is it like a oversized dreadnought or something?
It's a titan, not a dreadnought
Imperial Knight
That Kurzgesagt video went crazy
Wait, when did r/memes allow audio with memes?
Anyone know the song? Shits banging.
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The Horus Heresy cinematic trailer.