Empire of Ants — Nature's Greatest Civilization | THE ETHOGRAM

Beneath your feet thrives a 100-million-year-old civilization. Empire of Ants reveals nature's greatest superorganism: leafcutter ants farming fungus for 60 million years, army ants sweeping the forest like a living storm, fire ants weaving themselves into survival rafts, weaver ants stitching leaves with living silk, desert ants navigating by polarized starlight, and the Argentine supercolony — a borderless empire spanning continents. Based on the Pulitzer-winning science of Hölldobler & Wilson. Chapters: 00:00 The empire beneath our feet / 01:12 Farmers for 60 million years / 02:18 The living storm / 03:19 The survival raft / 04:17 The tailors / 05:12 Mathematicians of the sand / 06:08 Living pantries & the borderless empire / 07:10 Lessons from the superorganism. No music — only the natural sounds of the wild. Wild Ethology explains the science of why animals do what they do — one behavior, one species, one question at a time. New breakdowns every week. ✅ 🔔 Subscribe:    / @wildethology   #animalbehavior #ethology #wildlife