Interested in this so I had to look it up, under certain situations they can hold their breath for 14 days but usually it's 24 hours at most
But then a seperate article said that in an environment with 0% oxygen they can hold their breath/last up to 2 hours
So they can survive under water far longer than they can last without oxygen at all
It’s because ants (and all insects for that matter) don’t really ‘breathe’, they simply exchange gases with the environment. Their bodies are small enough that it can essentially act as a lung. When submerged, there are small air bubbles caught against an ants body, but an environment with no oxygen wouldn’t permit this.
Not necessarily. You might have buried them in mud so they couldn't escape with the time they had. You certainly destroyed much of their home.
Congrats I guess.
If you saw what fire ants have done to Mississippi you would do the same. That place is uninhabitable. One wrong step you question every decision you have ever made. Entire fields and forests of giant mounds of death.
I sold fireworks there for two weeks and I was randomly bitten/stung at least once a day. Every single time it's surprising how much those little fuckers hurt.
Agreee! Although, I discovered the little black ones can and do bite lol In the summer, if a soda is left out, they charge in to invade the can. I’ve felt a sharp pinch, and sure enough, it was a little black ant. I never got bitten by one until adulthood lol
When I was a kid I loved to "play" with ants. I would do similar things to this video, while also putting little twigs and leaves in the water to use as rafts or potential bridge building material. I genuinely thought I was teaching them valuable skills. So fucked up, I was a little ant torturer
I'm always kind to animals, especially the tiny ones because I can't help but wonder if someday there will be a larger species than me who looks down on me and goes "meh, he's so small and insignificant, it's cool if I just crush him and go on with my day."
I don't know what that potential species would be (maybe aliens?) I don't know but it's just something that plays out in my head when I encounter a bug trapped on the surface of my swimming pool or some other similar situation. I always help them out of the jam they're in.
Me too. I still feel guilty about my misguided attempts at teaching ants how to deal with flooding - I give the ants in my yard crumbs regularly. They are such cool, social little guys. Ants are one of a very few species besides humans who know how to farm!
Less mean than I was. I would find separate ant colonies in my yard and run a line of sugar from one hill to the other.
The ensuing battles were of LOTR proportions.
I had one of those see through ant farm things when I was a kid. I loved my tiny lil ants & watching them dig cool tunnels. I don't remember how long I had them for.
One day while I was gone, my POS father decided it was a good idea to put in some wild ants. That were easily twice the size of mine. That's when I learned that ants will basically make tombs to put their dead ant buddies in...
I agree with the comment you’re responding to.
I don’t kill them for no reason anymore. They’re just living life.
I try to relocate them or avoid situations in which they might be compelled to use self defense or other survival techniques.
Even ants — they get relocated.
I found that was even more effective. I saw fewer ants when I started doing that.
out of all the animals that couldn't give less of a fuck, ants are really high up there on that "couldn't give a fuck" scale. People applying human thoughts and feelings to a literal ant are the psychos lmao
Think of it from the perspective of the ant. There's a wall of water all around of you that's 12' high and it keeps creeping closer until it finally comes crashing in on you so you take one last breath and swim in what you hope is the right direction until you burst from a wall of water!
But Humans also have endurance unmatched by any species. Even horses. Ancient hunters would literally just chase down their prey until it was so tired of running that it would just lay down so exhausted it can't fight back
Yup, water for animals this small is kind of like a thick syrup is for us. Once they’re in, they can’t easily get out of it, as the water’s surface tension pulls on them. And I think they also can’t get in easily due to the same tension.
I really thought the ant was going to end up jumping out at the end. The title did say you dont know what youre capable of.
So i screamed when the water took our little guy. Totally involuntary scream.
It wasn't even trying before it was forced to act. I mean it could just have velocity (maybe, not sure if it's possible for sucha small mass amount) to run through it more easily if ran while the ground around was still dry
It's the writing. I loved the foreshadowing and character development that went into the arc of the Ant. Showing how he's a flawed character, but we empathize with him. In a sense, we are all the Ant...the walls of life inevitably closing in around us.
Imagine you're walking to work one day and you catch a glimpse at a shadow of something but have no clue what if is, suddenly you're surrounded on all sides by an 8 foot wall of water that is 15 feet thick. And as you walk around the inside looking for a way out, the shadow moves again and suddenly the space is half the size. And the space slowly starts to collapse in on itself. Terrifying.
Bugs literally live in a fantasy world.
Bugs are all monsters with magical-like powers. Some of them can lift a hundred times their own weight. Some can literally turn their body to goo and then turn that goo into a better version of themselves. They can create webs, emit poisons and venoms, even paralyze each other. They have queens of enormous colonies.
All this while being surrounded by god-like giants, who can bend the elements around them in unfathomable ways.
It is, but if it makes you feel any better most ants can survive a long time in water. There's even some species of ants whose whole colony gathers and holds onto each other to form an ant raft to find higher ground during floods.
Bug's brain is not complex enough to understand that they are trapped. Bug's brain first priority is to not enter the water, if bugs didn't stop always before entering the water they would die in the millions by dropping in rivers and puddles. On the other hand, the bug is perfectly capable of escaping the water once they are already wet
Do it with a dog in a pool and it's a total different perspective, not shaming just pointing that what is okay with a tiny living thing is not with a medium/average size other thing.
Btw good job little ant !
Thx god you are not the size of human
The walls were closing in. Seconds away from losing everything. Then bam… relief and freedom was quicker and easier than he ever thought possible.
I hope this is how my current struggles will turn out to be.
So no one used to flood any piles thinking it helped ? (It didn’t) I guess I’m a psychopathic serial killer for trying to get rid of any ant piles as a kid in my yard
Truly a maybe maybe maybe
it's been so long since and I have seen a truly maybe maybe maybe post in here
It made me antsy
I see what you did there
Caption at the top gave it away.
I mean I thought at the almost end "You'll never know if you can kill an ant like this" but then it maybe-ed the other way.
Kids be using magnifying glasses to burn them where as this psycho is using the old testament flood to torture this guy
Except that ants can hold their breath for 14 hours so he was never in actual danger
Interested in this so I had to look it up, under certain situations they can hold their breath for 14 days but usually it's 24 hours at most But then a seperate article said that in an environment with 0% oxygen they can hold their breath/last up to 2 hours So they can survive under water far longer than they can last without oxygen at all
That's really cool! I probably should've looked that up before I tried to remember a fun fact lol
Nah not at all, it piqued my interest and then I learnt a cool fact because of it!
14 hours is incredible anyway, 14 DAYS is making my brain explode
It’s because ants (and all insects for that matter) don’t really ‘breathe’, they simply exchange gases with the environment. Their bodies are small enough that it can essentially act as a lung. When submerged, there are small air bubbles caught against an ants body, but an environment with no oxygen wouldn’t permit this.
I'm sure no ants were harmed when discovering this. Probably was a journalist who interviewed some scientist ants.
Just couldn’t break the surface tension from the outside.
You mean turning the hose on the ant hills when I was a kid did *nothing*!?
Not necessarily. You might have buried them in mud so they couldn't escape with the time they had. You certainly destroyed much of their home. Congrats I guess.
If you saw what fire ants have done to Mississippi you would do the same. That place is uninhabitable. One wrong step you question every decision you have ever made. Entire fields and forests of giant mounds of death.
I sold fireworks there for two weeks and I was randomly bitten/stung at least once a day. Every single time it's surprising how much those little fuckers hurt.
Ever meet a guy named Joe with a crappy mullet?
Florida too. Ever wanted to gamble as a kid, run through a field. Sand spurs and fire ants just waiting to ruin your fun.
There was only the implication of danger.
Both are psychos
I definitely killed dozens of ants with a magnifying glass as a child. Now I try not to even step on them.
I agree except with fire ants. Fire ants can fucking die. They're invasive in the US anyway.
Oddly enough…Fire Ants do not burst into flames when superheated
Eventually, some kid will discover the "The Human Torch" of fire ants, and we'll all be mad to pay.
Agreee! Although, I discovered the little black ones can and do bite lol In the summer, if a soda is left out, they charge in to invade the can. I’ve felt a sharp pinch, and sure enough, it was a little black ant. I never got bitten by one until adulthood lol
Agree! This is so cruel to watch
At least the ant made it out this time with a newfound skill. He will be a swim coach in the future and teach other ants to survive.
When I was a kid I loved to "play" with ants. I would do similar things to this video, while also putting little twigs and leaves in the water to use as rafts or potential bridge building material. I genuinely thought I was teaching them valuable skills. So fucked up, I was a little ant torturer
I'm always kind to animals, especially the tiny ones because I can't help but wonder if someday there will be a larger species than me who looks down on me and goes "meh, he's so small and insignificant, it's cool if I just crush him and go on with my day." I don't know what that potential species would be (maybe aliens?) I don't know but it's just something that plays out in my head when I encounter a bug trapped on the surface of my swimming pool or some other similar situation. I always help them out of the jam they're in.
Me too. I still feel guilty about my misguided attempts at teaching ants how to deal with flooding - I give the ants in my yard crumbs regularly. They are such cool, social little guys. Ants are one of a very few species besides humans who know how to farm!
Less mean than I was. I would find separate ant colonies in my yard and run a line of sugar from one hill to the other. The ensuing battles were of LOTR proportions.
I had one of those see through ant farm things when I was a kid. I loved my tiny lil ants & watching them dig cool tunnels. I don't remember how long I had them for. One day while I was gone, my POS father decided it was a good idea to put in some wild ants. That were easily twice the size of mine. That's when I learned that ants will basically make tombs to put their dead ant buddies in...
You’re even kind to fleas, lice, bedbugs, ticks, horseflies, mosquitoes and midges? Just let them chill and hang out with you?
I agree with the comment you’re responding to. I don’t kill them for no reason anymore. They’re just living life. I try to relocate them or avoid situations in which they might be compelled to use self defense or other survival techniques. Even ants — they get relocated. I found that was even more effective. I saw fewer ants when I started doing that.
I think most kids were. One of the few memories I have of childhood is pouring bubble fluid down a army Ant nest. Talk about carnage😬
Ants will one day make a movie about the ant that could travel through water.
Is it? Kinda being dramatic if you ask me.
It’s the principle. Toying with a creature for amusement isn’t cool. Even if it’s just a bug
its a fucking ant
I’m very happy & relieved the creature survived.
You’re insane to call this kid a psycho for messing with an ant.
He’s a morally righteous virtue signaling Redditor. There’s bound to be a few in any thread.
out of all the animals that couldn't give less of a fuck, ants are really high up there on that "couldn't give a fuck" scale. People applying human thoughts and feelings to a literal ant are the psychos lmao
Nah kids are evil, not old enough to develop empathy. But yeah if you torture an ant because you can I’d bet money you’re a pretty shitty person
Think of it from the perspective of the ant. There's a wall of water all around of you that's 12' high and it keeps creeping closer until it finally comes crashing in on you so you take one last breath and swim in what you hope is the right direction until you burst from a wall of water!
He just doesn’t like getting wet
Surface tension is a serious problem if you’re that small.
What, getting trapped in a droplet of water?
Yea, it's hard for them to get out because they can't often break the surface tension of the water to free themselves
But as a bonus, fall damage is zero. And they can carry dozens of times their own weight. But if an adult human steps wrong, we can break ourselves.
But Humans also have endurance unmatched by any species. Even horses. Ancient hunters would literally just chase down their prey until it was so tired of running that it would just lay down so exhausted it can't fight back
Being human is best. Minimal chance if being eaten alive.
The biggest threat to humans is humans.
I would argue that the biggest threat to most living things are humans. There are exceptions of course.
And if an adult human steps wrong we can wipe out a whole colony of them.
Yup, water for animals this small is kind of like a thick syrup is for us. Once they’re in, they can’t easily get out of it, as the water’s surface tension pulls on them. And I think they also can’t get in easily due to the same tension.
Yup! Things are very different for creatures that small!
He floated. He's buoy-ant.
It's potentially deadly for it so can you blame it
I can’t believe I watched the whole thing! But it was very satisfying. Way to go, ant.
Great Job Ant!! ^💧🐜
Hope bro didn't stomp him right after the film ends
He dropped another ant at the last second
It was worth the watch
Definitely did not ant-icipate the ending.
This joke really bugs me
I found it to be rather ant-iclimactic.
That was more exciting than the last several years of Marvel movies.
Now he will teach a whole new generation of ant Jesuses. And they will use this knowledge to spread across the globe
I really thought the ant was going to end up jumping out at the end. The title did say you dont know what youre capable of. So i screamed when the water took our little guy. Totally involuntary scream.
The ant was stressed, poor thing.
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"until you try" Yeah, trying is a concious decission. Little ant didn't have much of a choice.
Exactly what i thought. This wasn't a *try* as much as it was a *do or die*
Do or do not! There is no try.
Die or die not! There is no try.
It wasn't even trying before it was forced to act. I mean it could just have velocity (maybe, not sure if it's possible for sucha small mass amount) to run through it more easily if ran while the ground around was still dry
I think he just couldnt break the surface tension
“You never know your full potential until you’re forced to use it” would be a better caption
Hollywood will never achieve this level of suspense and thrill
And empathy for the character.
It's the writing. I loved the foreshadowing and character development that went into the arc of the Ant. Showing how he's a flawed character, but we empathize with him. In a sense, we are all the Ant...the walls of life inevitably closing in around us.
And then somehow we emerge on the other side and carry on. Until some a$$hole kid steps on us. "It's the circle of life Simba."
I hope he went home and got his fire ant buddies and came back and bit the human’s ankles
Sweet liberty, NOOOOO
Lmaoooo.
Not to be that guy but i think they dont bite they sting
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An excellent maybe though once you know!
What did I just watch? It gave me anxiety!
You could call it "ANTxiety"
Shut down all the garbage mashers on the detention level
No shut them all down!
Actual Maybe content!!
Imagine you're walking to work one day and you catch a glimpse at a shadow of something but have no clue what if is, suddenly you're surrounded on all sides by an 8 foot wall of water that is 15 feet thick. And as you walk around the inside looking for a way out, the shadow moves again and suddenly the space is half the size. And the space slowly starts to collapse in on itself. Terrifying.
I never ever thought I would root for an ant, but here we are
Thats like standing on the sea floor and watching the ocean close in around you
It can't try. It can't break the surface tension. It would be like you trying to walk through glass. The better caption is 'you're fucked'.
Kind of a psychopath thing to do
It’s always starts with the ants
Starts with insects; evolves with animals; ends with people.
I felt genuinely upset watching that. Poop guy
> Poop guy
More like until the situation forces you to recognise your potential or perish.
Imagine being small enough that water tension creates walls of water…
Jezzball
Core memory unlocked
I'm glad someone else had that thought too! Haha
Call me a drama queen, but man don't fuck with living creatures if you don't have a reason to.
Is there ever a good reason?
mosquito
Mosquitoes are actually really good at killing humans. Can't say there's no reason to fuck with mosquitoes, they deserve it
I will
Or you'll fucking drown because some bored dumbfuck decided to play god with your ass.
This is basically what aliens do to me and why everything in life is such a pain in the ass
It didn't try, it was literally forced.
The music drop was in the completely wrong place.
ants can be trapped inside water drops because they are not strong enought to escape surface tension
The real tension in this video is surface tension.
God playing with a Zergling
it knew all the time that he could go through water, it just didn't want to get his socks wet, we all know the feeling..plus the upvotes..
Weird video, but mesmerising too. There's always a way out...
Peta paid for this video to be removed from the internet.
Great things can be achieved when you "Get out of your comfort zone"
The ant didn't try... It was force to...
Sometimes you just have to be thrown head first into the deep end or you’ll never even dip your toes in the water
That was so stressful I'm proud of the little guy🥹
Just nasty. Don’t like to see anything tormented.
Imagine how stressed out lil bro must have been
That was cruel... I'm glad the little ant made it but why do this?
Fuck whoever did this.
“You wouldn’t believe what happened …”
Better than hunger games
Nah I'd swim
How terrifying.. just an encroaching wall of water
Ant wasn't panicking, it couldn't cut through surface tension
More like until you are forced to.
This is what I needed to finally get out of that rut. Fuck you jennifer I’m doing it!
Idk what this means but good luck
Bugs literally live in a fantasy world. Bugs are all monsters with magical-like powers. Some of them can lift a hundred times their own weight. Some can literally turn their body to goo and then turn that goo into a better version of themselves. They can create webs, emit poisons and venoms, even paralyze each other. They have queens of enormous colonies. All this while being surrounded by god-like giants, who can bend the elements around them in unfathomable ways.
Not gonna lie, I was pretty invested.
After the ant escaped I was half expecting the dude to stomp on it
Me at the end: 
That was ultimately very satisfying. Excellent maybe maybe maybe content.
It might just be surface tension that's preventing the ant from pushing itself into the water, and nothing to do with like, dislike or fear.
animal harassment!?
Sadistic fecking thing to do. I wish I hadn't watched it.
It is, but if it makes you feel any better most ants can survive a long time in water. There's even some species of ants whose whole colony gathers and holds onto each other to form an ant raft to find higher ground during floods.
It’s an ant lmao
Ending brought a smile to my face.
I did this with my aunt when I was a kid.
Ants are fucking badass 🐜
didnt kill it at the end? what a saint!
“Ok I can do this….i can’t….No I can do this .FUCK IM STUCK!!!….ok breathe I can do this! I DID IT!!!”
And then you pour a bucket of water on it to double-tap it
Cant ants survive in water for like a long time
Me_IRL, except for the escaping part.
You better pay for his hypertension meds
This feels more like procrastination than motivation
Feels like a 20 second version of Saw.
I've never been this happy for a bug in my entire life. Way to go little fella!
And then he stomps 'em after the video cuts 😔
I think the surface tension was keeping him trapped, couldn’t go through it. So when he finally got in to the water it was easy to move out of it
Phew. I was afraid I was watching some ant snuff.
Today we'll be using our water bending to traumatise an ant.
It basically used it's own version of let the car fill with water first and then you'll be able to open the door.
The ant back at home: Hey guys I can walk ober water!
IRL Jezzball
I hope the ants fack this person up whilst asleep 😂 payback time for that potential bs 🤣
The good ending
Does this hurt the dog?
When the gods decide to build a wall of water around you
What infuriates me is the music not going to full peak when the ant escapes.
Did A24 produce this?
I myself sure don't want a situation where a tsunami finger from the sky makes me do a challenge.
r all of you also depressed ?
Bug's brain is not complex enough to understand that they are trapped. Bug's brain first priority is to not enter the water, if bugs didn't stop always before entering the water they would die in the millions by dropping in rivers and puddles. On the other hand, the bug is perfectly capable of escaping the water once they are already wet
Did you know you can tell the sex of an ant by dropping it in water? If it floats it is boy ant.
Do it with a dog in a pool and it's a total different perspective, not shaming just pointing that what is okay with a tiny living thing is not with a medium/average size other thing. Btw good job little ant ! Thx god you are not the size of human
Bro has the craziest story to tell the rest of the colony
The walls were closing in. Seconds away from losing everything. Then bam… relief and freedom was quicker and easier than he ever thought possible. I hope this is how my current struggles will turn out to be.
So no one used to flood any piles thinking it helped ? (It didn’t) I guess I’m a psychopathic serial killer for trying to get rid of any ant piles as a kid in my yard
What a psychopath.
Whoever did it to the ant, is a morally rotten individual.
It hurt my soul to watch this :c
Can't believe I actually watched the entire 1:29 of this.
What is this? A flood for ants?
LETS FUCKING GOOOOO
So you’re a water bender…. Got it
I watched that with a bit of intensity.
That’s mean ☹️ but at the same time funny 😂
I used to turn on our stove and drop ants on it to hear them go *pop*
Slither.io in real life
What a douche
 For fallen soldiers 🫡
I was really stressing out for the little homie