This one just doesn't work very well.
Here's a video of the activity of a colony of ants. They're foraging for food. They aren't doing any housekeeping. So all we see is ants coming and going. Occasionally some of the sand or dry grass moves. Around 0:43 an ant drags a largish piece of the grass from the top edge near the right side of the frame and drops it near the hole. At 0:51 somebody moves it out of the way. That's the most thrilling moment here.
I'll have to try this again when they're cleaning out their tunnels. After a good rainstorm, perhaps.
What we have here is made up of shots taken every second for an hour played back at 24 frames per second. Nothing interesting happens.
Really.
Update at 2:30am: Woke up with an "Aha!" moment. "They're foraging for food." Chuckbert, give them something to eat and watch how it's taken down the hole! What will we watch them eat?
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5 comments:
I feel sort of itchy.
Chuck, Animal documentaries are staged. You can't depend on the animals to perform. I suggest putting out colorful food around the hole or releasing some spiders there. Maybe you could get some colored sand and watch them move it around. Or, tie up Jerry and let the ants eat him.
Ge, thinks Colleen. Ooh I see a conjested area ahead. Sniff.
or you can do what I do with the kind of ants that bite me make my legs swell so that I have to go to the doctor and get put on antibiotics, put poison food down and watch the activity of them taking it down to the queen and then watch the activity cease.
OK, Anonymous, watch your step!
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