Ants Devour Slug Alive! | Natural World: Ant Attack | BBC Earth

slugs are fair game for driver ants they don't run away the first ant makes contact and then another the others come running the slug tries to sit out the attack there are so many ants a victim uses the only escape route left to it the ants fall too they often use this unconventional way to get down from the trees but the unfortunate slug has fallen from the frying pan into the fire an awful lot of ants are milling about down here they smother their prey but the slug has a trick up its sleeve it may be slow but it's well protected it's entire body is covered in a thick and noxious slime it's so gluttonous but once their jaws are in they can't get them out other ants seem to give a helping hand but this one is firmly stuck try as she might she just can't get away [Music] for some it's not just their jaws that attract [Music] which is almost free then something remarkable happens some of the workers begin to bring particles of soil and place them on the slug in this way the slime is soaked up like ink on blotting paper gradually the slug disappears under a writhing mass of earth and ants with its protected code neutralized the ants attacked the slug underneath slowly the victim is sliced up [Music]

Channel: BBC Earth

Views: 7,556,665

Rating: 4.9078169 out of 5

Keywords: bbc documentary, bbc, bbcearth, bbc earth, bbc ants, Natural World: Ant Attack, ant documentary, ant attack, Andrew Sachs, driver ants, safari ants, siafu ants, ant colony, natural world, ants eat slug, ants eating animals alive

Id: 0YpDCt_IaNM

Length: 4min 19sec (259 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 25 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/__fuzz__]

Whelp, gonna add this one to my list of anxiety-induced nightmares. Am I the slug getting eaten alive? Am I the ant with my face stuck to a slug? Both? Probably both.

[u/blodreina_kumWonkru]

My gosh.

[u/AnneNonnyMouse]

This reminded me of time I ate an extra sticky toffee or nougat and felt like it was stuck to the roof of my mouth and sticking my teeth together lol.

I just wonder how ants know to use soil to neutralize sticky stuff. Would that be considered use of a tool?

[u/Comrade_USSR]

Not my proudest fap. And gosh the noises

[u/EU_Commission]

i have watched this bbc documentary years ago. i was very surprised and a bit startled, because have had never heard of ants (or other insects) using tools. this is something they could elaborate a bit further.