r/oddlysatisfying • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • 6h ago

The sound and movements of the “drummer ants” of the Amazonian rainforest

By @ vive.earth

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u/David_Dantas 5h ago

I don't speak ant, but I think that's a pretty clear: "Don't mess with us we mean business"

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u/SuperSimpleSam 5h ago

huh, they speak the same language as a rattlesnake.

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u/NastySeconds 2h ago

Totally different dialect.

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u/forgotwhyicameheree 5h ago

little guys got attitude

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u/unica_unica 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/N4xCVPenanVcI

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u/MallProfessionals 5h ago

They sound like tiny percussionists coordinating a rainforest jam session.

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u/NinjaBuddha13 3h ago

Wish I could be as chill about it as you. Im sure the purpose is to ward off predators and I gotta say it is working for me.

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u/House_Of_Pies 5h ago

Why do they do that?

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u/PhilosopherInfinite5 5h ago

Like a snake hissing at you? Or a dog barking at you. It’s a warning to stay back.

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u/kombatunit 5h ago

I love it when the first thing I see is the question I want to ask and plausible response.

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u/powderhound522 5h ago

That’s my guess. They sound very bitey

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u/Hephaestus_God 5h ago

It looks like they only do it from stimulus. Meaning by the time I run into them while hiking in the middle of the Amazon it’s already too late 😭

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u/LudwigVonLeaf 4h ago

In addition to making noise to signal a "risk," they move together, making it appear as though they are a single, larger organism.

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u/pureeyes 3h ago

It's working

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u/forgotwhyicameheree 5h ago

is this their way of intimidation?

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u/Pm-me-ur-happysauce 5h ago

Thanks, I hate it

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u/Holocenica 5h ago

MAD TWERKIN

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u/TokiVideogame 5h ago

Myrmeconema neotropicum is a tetradonematid nematode parasite

these are infected ants

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u/rhiddian 2h ago

Genuinely curious.
How are you deducing that they are infected?

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u/TokiVideogame 1h ago

red butt black body

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u/Beginning_Ad_2262 5h ago

We don’t know enough about earth. This is cool

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u/Its_pipo 5h ago

honestly this is the most metal thing ants have ever done

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u/Substantial_Sea7327 5h ago

I'm not sure which one scares me more. the amazon rainforest or Australians

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u/rhiddian 2h ago

We also have weaver ants that build nests like this, called green ants.

They don't "drum" like these guys. However they do squirt formic acid from their abdomens which they then squirt onto the spot where they bite you.

We also have ants called Jack Jumpers. And there have been at least six recorded deaths due to Jack Jumpers since 1980. Most of them died within 20 minutes of being bitten and stung by a jack jumper.

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u/Spacecommander5 4h ago

Twerker ants

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u/RustedRelics 3h ago

They look like they’d bite and or sting if you touch them.

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u/AntakeeMunOlla 2h ago

Somewhere out there countless years ago there was a single ant that got so scared that it's legs got all shaky and all the other ants around it just kinda went with it

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u/Beans2177 5h ago

Oddlyterrifying

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u/Cortabene 4h ago

Absolutely not.

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u/DarthMaulATAT 4h ago

r/AIDKE (Aninals I didn't know existed). I've been alive for over 30 years and always been a fan of animals, yet somehow at least a few times a month, I discover an animal that is completely new to me. So cool.

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u/Specialist-Neck-7810 4h ago

Wow! That’s one of the coolest things that I’ve never even heard of before!

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u/Afraid_Phrase4770 3h ago

Kind of like firecrackers or claps in an audience dissipating

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u/whatisdreampunk 2h ago

Oddly terrifying.

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u/NowieTends 5h ago

Extra fascinating considering ants have no hearing.

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u/LacidOnex 5h ago

They do sense vibrations, it would make sense to make big vibrations in unison

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u/TheOneRebornTwice 3h ago

I yelled at some near me and they trembled in fear. What else you got? They taste like popcorn? Cause false smarty pants

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u/ivory_nina 1h ago

looks horrible

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u/Jraksys_Magnanimous 5h ago

Forbidden fiz wiz

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u/Taint__Paint 5h ago

Ok this is actually really cool and sounds soothing.

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u/Joshywa8 5h ago

That's good ASMR

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u/That_Jonesy 5h ago

Why tho...

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u/VerilyShelly 5h ago

To scare you away. It's working on me

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u/That_Jonesy 1h ago

I fkn love ants this scares me not one bit. Adorbs

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u/SextupleRed 5h ago

Sounds like how I start my bike in the morning

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u/AdmiralXI 5h ago

ASMR ants