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[Manitobant]

What are your favorite ant documentaries?

I'll list my top 3 first:

1. Ant attack, a doc about dorylus driver ants

https://www.dailymot...m/video/x3b1fi9

2. Astonishing army ants, a doc about eciton burchellii



3. Empire of the desert ants, a doc about myrmecocystus mimicus

http://naturedocumen...ErWEJ0o7IGgUWBZ

Edited by Manitobant, January 16 2020 - 10:38 AM.

[Ferox_Formicae]

I have two favorites:

 

1. Planet Ant - Life Inside the Colony

A documentary about scientists collecting an Atta cephalotes colony from Trinidad and bringing them back to the UK

 

2. David Attenborough's Ant Mountain

A documentary about polygynous Formica rufa colonies in the Alps. Also, who couldn't love David Attenborough?

[Manitobant]

I have two favorites:
 
1. Planet Ant - Life Inside the Colony
A documentary about scientists collecting an Atta cephalotes colony from Trinidad and bringing them back to the UK
 
2. David Attenborough's Ant Mountain
A documentary about polygynous Formica rufa colonies in the Alps. Also, who couldn't love David Attenborough?

oh yeah ant mountain is good. I forgot about that one.

[ANTdrew]

Bump. Where can I find a link to the whole Empire of the Desert Ants documentary?

[PogoQueen]

Naturedocumentaries.org for empire of the desert. My all time fav documentary ❤️

[Canadant]

Wow! You sir or madam are a scholar and a gentleman. I love older style documentaries where one creature is chosen and followed throughout their life cycle. Only a narrator is heard and rarely are the hosts cinematographers seen.

Today it's done by area and you just don't get the depth. Also, there's always some [censored] with his face jammed in the camera pissing off the creatures and going on about how they respect and know nature. Steve Irwin (I liked him a lot in my youth) ruined nature docs (my perhaps unpopular opinion).

Loved this though. I watched the army ants one right away. Fascinating!

Thank you

[ANTdrew]

I watched Attenborough's Empire of the Ants last night about Formica Rufa, and it is amazing!

[FSTP]

I can't remember what it is called. But one of the ones I like was this one about african driver ants I think. But the documentary wasn't even so much about the ants themselvesbut more so about the local village people and thier relationship with the ants. How they would capture colonies and bring them into thier mud and straw huts to drive out the termites. The locals refered to the ants as "jagluvac" . 

 

Anyone know which one I'm talking about? I remember seeing it years ago ack when I used to watch Tv.

 

 

Also Empire of the desert ant is proabably one of the best ones as well. 

[Barristan]

The best one in my opinion:

[SpartanonFire007]

thoses setups are so bad damn

[Mdrogun]

I love older style documentaries where one creature is chosen and followed throughout their life cycle. Only a narrator is heard and rarely are the hosts cinematographers seen.

Today it's done by area and you just don't get the depth. Also, there's always some [censored] with his face jammed in the camera pissing off the creatures and going on about how they respect and know nature. Steve Irwin (I liked him a lot in my youth) ruined nature docs (my perhaps unpopular opinion).

I couldn't agree with this more! I never quite knew why I preferred the older documentaries and such, but I totally see what you mean. it seems like "documentaries" used to be based purely around imparting the viewer with some knowledge and now they are also geared towards entertaining the viewer

[MrLunk]

 Unstoppable Invaders - The Red Imported Fire Ant | Documentary

[MrLunk]

The Largest Civilization in The World

[Jonathan5608]

I got be honest, no one can top Attenborough's performance. There is real emotion and passion when he narrates the documentary and it really draws people in. RIP