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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
nickjj|2 years ago
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.
gverrilla|2 years ago
jprete|2 years ago
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.
buryat|2 years ago
ozfive|2 years ago
nixass|2 years ago
https://www.netflix.com/title/80213846?preventIntent=true
Also, visually very impressive documentary
nickjj|2 years ago
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.