vue - How Ants Take Care of Their Farms
Hundreds of ant species have been farming for tens of millions of years. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Justin Ove, John Szymakowski, Fatima Iqbal, Justin Lentz, David Campos, and Chris Peters. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Sources: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/11102/20141211/fungus-farming-ants-selectively-grow-crops.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/science/a-farmer-ants-unique-fungal-crop.html http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/584692/Ants-and-aphids-have-symbiotic-connection.html?nav=5067 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071009212548.htm http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2012/12/27/how-leafcutter-ants-evolved-from-farmers-into-cows/ http://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/meet-earths-oldest-farmers-ants/ http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_10-10-2007-9-58-53?newsid=19554 http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2014/12/fungus-growing-ants-selectively-cultivate-their-crops/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291106/ http://www.alexanderwild.com/
Commentaires
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How in the hell did ants get so smart? Just who do they think they are?
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Ants beat us to agriculture, but what about industrialization?
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Its like calling humans and chicken mutualist, one species has obviously got the better end of the deal.
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The ants essentially trap and spoil the aphids and claim they can keep them safe if they stay...sounds like my friend's ex.
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ants... those have already taken over the world while we were hunting with sticks...
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so basically the deal ants and aphids have is "you feed us, we will protect you" sounds like a fair enough deal to me.
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I'd knew aphids farms were used to secrete sweet, sweet honeydew... but I didn't know what exactly was, that the aphids were ''eating'', or that ants clipped their wings O.o ! you just earned another sub ^_^
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3:15 Clipping wings and giving them drugs.... Sounds a lot like what we do to chickens, I wouldn't say it's very harsh!
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Hmm so they cut their wings off so they would stay... The ant colony is like a mafia family
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Awesome video thank you
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how are queens born
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What
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I'm keeping a Camponotus Pennsylvanicus colony (Currently just a queen and her brood), which is known to keep aphids, when the colony is big enough, I plan on keeping a population of aphids in a sealed outworld to allow the ants to farm them as their sugar source, then I'll be able to observe the behavior firsthand, it's gonna be so cool.
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i'm curious what gives researchers the idea that ants have been doing this only tens of millions of years and not a hundred million or for only thousands of years. are there fossils with ants in position to herd aphids on a plant?
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I wonder how symbiotic relationships such as mutualism began
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Those ants are geniuses! Farming fungi? Herding aphids? What next? Complex multi-story structures that house all of them? Hats?
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320,000th veier
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I fount the one place where biology is useful if you don't go down that career path. THANK YOU USELESS CLASS TO HELP ME LEARN SOMETHING DO I KNOW WHAT THIS MAN IS TALKING ABOUT!( although if I wanted to know I would ask Siri to google it, as I will for the rest of my life.)
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My favorite SciShow video :D
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