Antlion Cone Death Trap | The Hunt | BBC Earth
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Published 2017-07-19
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All Comments (21)
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He was beating his ass like he owed him money.
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never thought I'd be cheering and be on the edge of my seat for an ant's survival
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so we aren't talking about how this camera can pick up literal grains of sand with perfect, crystal clear quality? alright.
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These slo-mo shots actually help a lot. Things happen so fast in the small insect world, that it's often hard to tell exactly what's happening, even if you're staring right at it. The slight slo-mo really adds some weight to the movement and gives you a better feeling of what's going down from the insect's point of view. ...Probably.
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I haven't admired sand as much as this video showed me.
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That final look-back was priceless. Congrats to the cameraman on that shot!
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I legitimately never knew that antlions would SLAM their prey into submission like that. That's horrific and amazing.
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The team who worked to produce this masterpiece deserve a standing ovation. Lets not forget they did all that standing on a 70 degrees sand.
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Love how it looked back near the end
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That last “PHEW” at the end tho
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Ma friends, please, a round of applauds for the the music and sound design/editing in this, is just... I can't even. The structure, the quality, the texture the whole construction of it. This shit is on a whole other level, BRAVO to whoever worked their asses off for this. Definitely appreciate it, made my day.
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I had these little pits in my yard when I was a kid. I don't remember how I found out you could feed ants to them, but after that, I started treating them as my pets, and I would give them ants to eat. I spent months feeding them, and watching the number of little pits in the yard increase. After that, I spent more months trying to dig them up to see what they looked like. I think I've always known I wanted to be a researcher. Even as a child I could spend months doing what others would be bored of in a day.
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“With venom filled pincers” Ant Lion: Proceeds to slam the ant around instead 2 year edit: This comment was made for laughs, y’all in the comments need to chilled with your arguments.
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i like how the ant turned around for a second in the end and was like: "Is that all you got?"
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I was literally yelling for the the ant to hurry and escape like “GOGOGOGO RUN PLEASE GET OUT OF THERE CLIMB FASTER”
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I knew ants were intelligent, but that was a very human-like reaction at the end! Taking a moment to look back at the pit, like it was processing the fact that it almost died. Can insects suffer from mental trauma?
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My mum: "why don't you go play with the neighbour's kid?" The neighbour's kid: 0:09
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Ant looks back and be like "I'll be back motherf!cker, with a few friends.."
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At a loss for words how absolutely beautiful our world is. How everything just fits together perfectly. Thanks for this footage. That was very interesting.
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can we take a moment to talk about how fantastic the camera is? the individual grains of sand look incredibly clear even though cameras tend to lose quality when zoomed in.
