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I watched a video once on YouTube about ants and there was a section where they encountered termites and had an all out battle.

The termite warriors would literally bite off the ant's limbs in 1 quick bite.

They mentioned the antibiotics allowed ants to resume basic functionality within a day. Imagine losing your arm at 9am and then still be useful by 3pm with no more than a few seconds or a minute of someone giving you antibiotics. We're not talking about regeneration here, but walking around and acting as normal as you can be given your missing limb(s).



Consider crabs amputating their own limbs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v241TF-cSzU



Is different. Crabs or Spiders can regrow a limb amputated, but adult insects can't.


> I watched a video once on YouTube about ants and there was a section where they encountered termites and had an all out battle.

Do you have a link?


> Do you have a link?

Unfortunately no. It was probably about a year ago and searching around for "ants" videos isn't coming up with anything. I've noticed that after a while YouTube will remove the red border to indicate you've watched a video.

I can say for sure it wasn't a Kurzgesagt video, but they have a number of videos about ants. I haven't seen all of them but their videos are usually high quality: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Kurzgesagt+ants

The video I'm thinking about had pretty big black "warrior" ants scout out an area and engage with termites, I'm not sure of their species. Based on my memory it felt like a documentary style video. It was all live captured video with a narrator, not an animation.

To be honest I'm not super into ants. It was one of those videos that somehow landed in my feed and I was pleasantly surprised because I like learning about new things.


You can try looking in your youtube History


https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Megaponera+anal...

The top one ("Megaponera analis - termite predators of the african savannah") was decent although the accent was hard for me to understand. It's definitely not the video the GP referenced, though, because the narrator doesn't mention the wound treatment or antibiotics, just that the injured ants are carried home.


i found a video of a standoff between termites and ants even more impressive: https://youtu.be/C96w-7B2W8I


I turned the volume up expecting to hear war drums at least. I've seen this video before. Makes me think of police and mafia.


Check "Life on our planet" on Netflix. It's about dinosaurs but also has plenty of bits around evolution. In one episode they talk about ants vs termites and also focus on that particular bit (limbs getting damaged or ripped off)

https://www.netflix.com/title/80213846?preventIntent=true

Also, visually very impressive documentary


Haha, you know what. This must be where I saw it because I went ~6 months back in my YouTube history and CTRL+F'd for ants and saw nothing except a documentary about fire ants which didn't cover this topic.

What a horrible assumption I made thinking I saw this about a year ago, I got tricked into thinking it must have been a long time ago since my YouTube history was coming up empty. I did watch life on our planet shortly after it was available. This is one of the pitfalls of watching lots of media on different platforms, it all blends together. I watch a lot of documentaries on both platforms.


I have that problem too. Not only with video but information consumption in general. Things I believed I read 18 months ago happened only 4-5 months back max. Crazy what overconsumption of information does to us


> We're not talking about regeneration here

That's reserved for the Axolotl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axolotl#Regeneration




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