What are you looking at? The video begins with a wide-shot and then zooms in on the curve at the bottom of the bridge; showing the mind-blowing number of ants diabolically working their way to the wasp nest. Francisco Boni explains the bridge: Attack of legionary ants (also known as army ants or marabunta) to a wasp honeycomb. Impressive the level of swarm intelligence and collective computation to form that bridge. pic.twitter.com/StvDkmv8x8 If you want to know more about the collective behavior of army ants making these impressive largely decentralized self-organized systems, check out this video with Simon Garnier (@sjmgarnier) from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (@NJIT) pic.twitter.com/3dukAIvcLf All I can say is:
Millions of ants linked together to form a bridge.
An electrical engineer named Francisco Boni captured footage of the ants attacking a wasp nest.
Yesterday, he Tweeted the video and it’s going viral on the internet.
(Click on Video in tweet below-“photo 4”)
“For ants, it is more effective to follow the trail over a bridge that goes down and then up than in an inverted upside down walk.
Also likely that upside down the ants can’t carry significant loads.”
When you see the video in Francisco Boni’s Tweet below, you’ll understand why it’s being viewed over-and-over.
Follow Francisco Boni on Twitter: @boni_bo
“Honey, it is time to move.”
-Rick
Follow Francisco Boni on Twitter: @boni_bo
H/t: NYpost.com
Diabolical chain-of-ANTS bridge built to attack wasp nest (Video and 3 Photos)
