Monday, January 21, 2008
Amazing ant colony
From Neatorama:
This remarkable video segment from a Science channel show on ants came through Digg today:
The structure covers 538 square feet and travels 26 feet into the earth. In it’s construction, the colony moved 40 tons of soil. Billions of ant loads of soil were brought to the surface. Each load weighed four times as much as the worker ant, and in human terms, was carried over 1/2 mile to the surface.
In the video, the scientists pour ten tons of liquid concrete into the ant colony, wait several weeks for it to set then excavate it.
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3 comments:
Cool, that's one big investigation!
Very cool documentary.
Does anyone know what the official title of this documentary is?
I would like to see the whole doc or buy it somewhere...
If someone has some info, please let me know,
Thanks in advance,
yours,
Rick Oosterholt
The apparent title of the documentary is: Ants - Nature’s Secret Power. I couldn't track down where it's from though.
eleavitt (or whatever your real name is:-) ),
thanks for the fast answer!
With the official title, it's a lot easier to track it down myself :-)
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