- Ants basically have climbing gear.
Ants sound boring, but they're very mesmerizing to watch.
Ants , yeah.
ants , but ants routinely solve very complex problems, like the traveling salesman problem.
ants possible and uh let's just start off talking about where we all
ants all right and how many people here earn over
ants don't fight to the death like the Eco filler the river ends I showed you
So ants have covered the earth.
And ants individually are not very smart.
Like ants coming together and lifting up a raft, my friends, these wonderful people in my life, kept me alive.
slacker ants what's the distribution well let's let's do a survey how many people here are slacker
and ants have uh really have that down to a te and they have all this flow of
Weaver ants for example I'll give you a couple of examples now the V veins are called Weaver Angela finden in the old
in ants and this paper this was just a
different ants thereby through the communication channel and act as an entire colony under certain
Too antsy. Because last time I didn't really get ready for a match, I lost it.
Female worker ants are sterile, so they can't reproduce, but regardless, they work for the colony for their entire lives until they die.
So these ants are also a bit territorial.
Same with 100 ants .
tastes like ants .
And there are ants in the Amazon that are beloved by people there for their flavors,
Tastes just like ants .
in both humans and ants .
Like are ants able to change their trails as members join
And they are ants that take slaves, and they take slaves that are young ants .
And those ants emerge in a colony.
So these ants are actually expanding at a global level as societies, giving it sort of a situation like Alaska and Hawaii is from the continental US--
And then the ants , do they have the idea that they can launch a pre-emptive strike against humans by flinging
So imagine a thousand ants lined up alongside that Volkswagen Beetle.
So a billion ants to cross Australia.
The 10 billion ants wind their way around the world once.
And even ants look different under a microscope.
This would be ants .
But the thing is ants are somehow, in a way, limited because ants can deposit information that is
And she said ants .
And she said ants .
Taste the ants .
It tasted like ants .
to taste the ants .
So I made powder-- ants powder, beautiful, black-- and I put it over a scampi risotto.
Third World ants , First World grasshoppers-- so discipline in the context of fiscal policy, again, doesn't mean austerity.
economies voting ants do these things uh these are the parallels that emerge as
uh H ants can carry 10,000 thousand times their body weight so you do the math they start getting really super efficient and they carry it they not
do nothing there are ants that are highly motivated that do most of the work and try to get the other ants to to
there are ants that actually learn again and again how to get a certain kind of food and get better and better at it so
time and these ants actually do something that's biologically economically very obvious that is why
actually the ultimate slacker ants because once they get the slaves they don't even know how to feed themselves a
fungus the ants have a fantastic division of labor system which in great detail was analyzed
of these ants flow fresh air so they
They caught wingless worker ants as high as 4,000 feet.