Micro Monsters with David Attenborough — S01E06 — Colony
2013 · 23 MIN · IMDB 8.3
Overview
Watching the fascinating display of leafcutter ants at the Natural History Museum in London is one of my favourite ways to while away a few hours, but David Attenborough is operating on a much grander scale here in the last in the series. In Argentina he observes some cousins of the leafcutters who are part of a community so vast it spans an entire continent. It’s one of the mandible-dropping facts in a look at one of the key inventions of arthropods: colonies. From termites and honey bees to the leafcutters, it seems that if you want to get ahead, you move to the big city.
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00:00:05 Our world is not always the same.
00:00:53 This series uses specially developed 3D camera technology
00:01:34 even millions of individuals.
00:02:39 Some colonies are quite small.
00:03:43 and store their honey - in hives
00:04:55 First, she gathers an audience.
00:05:46 Her instructions are remarkably accurate
00:06:34 larger than that.
00:07:54 She is tended by the workers when in a bivouac and carried by them
00:08:41 The hunters follow the trail, sensing it with their antennae.
00:09:45 Fragments of it are sent back to the queen
00:11:03 Out on the sun-baked floor of the Rift Valley in East Africa,
00:12:12 Soldiers guard the royal chamber, their pincers raised,
00:13:05 If she doesn't get that, she will die - and with her, the colony.
00:13:54 Animations show how gusts of wind move across the savannah.
00:14:56 Something they could never have done,
00:15:47 of leaves produced by the forest trees.
00:16:45 which are full of nutrients, which the ants can digest.
00:17:50 Here, the smallest caste of ants in the community, the minims,
00:18:29 a different pheromone that stops the collection of that kind of leaf.
00:19:25 of feeding and fighting and collaborating.
00:20:06 We have traced the fascinating techniques
00:20:50 that underpin all life.
00:21:45 But you could argue that this planet is more theirs than ours.
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Micro Monsters with David Attenborough, season 1, episode 6: Colony.
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