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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 04:08 PM
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Behold the terrifying power of the seemingly humble ant.
Time-lapse/high-speed video of ants devouring a dead gecko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Mt2E1M6dU

I'm not fond of ants, but it's impressive.
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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 04:54 PM
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1. Yikes!
Now I itch all over! That one's gonna give me nightmares!

:P
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-13-09 11:42 PM
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2. Kick to give people nightmares. n/t
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-14-09 12:42 AM
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3. Ze body of ze ant iss divided into tsree sections:
ze head, ze tsorax and ze abdomen. Zey are enclosed in a hard, armour-like covering called ze exoskeleton, vich provides some protection from ozser nasty little insects — but, unfortunately, not from ze dissector's scalpel. (slice) See? Nozsing to it! He's not such a toughie! And his legs — zey help him carry hundreds of times his own veight! But look at zis! (pop) You're not zo strong compared vith me! Four! (pop) Five! (pop) Six! (pop) Ha!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIBA_3aK0Hg
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AllenVanAllen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-14-09 01:52 AM
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4. they're pretty amazing
Edited on Sun Jun-14-09 01:53 AM by AllenVanAllen

Check out his video :


Ant Superhighway 3:15 min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyBf3GcGX64


Humble little efficient superorganism!
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