1000 Cockroaches Versus 1000 Ants... Who Will Win_
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00:00hi guys today we will make a competition between a thousand cockroaches and a
00:05thousand aggressive redwood ants let's see who will be stronger both in single
00:10competitions and in army-to-army battles
00:15the cockroaches are unusual they are Turkmen such insects do not know how to
00:20move on vertical smooth surfaces in particular on glass they can only climb
00:26up where there is a little sealant left in the aquarium and you can find white
00:31individuals among the cockroaches
00:36white color is typical for cockroaches that have recently had a molt let's move
00:41on to the ants the redwood ones are the creators of those very high anthills
00:45that can be found in any forest so they've decided to form a pyramid in one
00:51of the corners
00:57and we begin checking both groups of insects with a boiled quail egg I wonder
01:02who will cope faster ants or cockroaches we peel the egg cut it in half each part
01:10goes to the aquariums and start taking bets the cockroaches immediately tear
01:17into the egg and begin to bite off pieces from it but the ants have a
01:20slightly different situation these run around the aquarium and ignore the egg
01:25most of them even prefer to sit in the corners we put the half to the corner
01:33where the concentration of insects is clearly more meanwhile the cockroaches
01:41have already surrounded a half of the egg from all sides biting off the pieces
01:45evenly they do it disorganized and constantly push each other off the treat
01:50the ants act differently creating a certain queue for the right to eat
02:03half an hour later we can already conclude that the approach of
02:07cockroaches has turned out to be more effective and they clearly lead in
02:11eating this is how it has been happening for the next two hours
02:29we have discovered a very interesting detail during the process of eating eggs
02:34by both species of insects the cockroaches like protein more they have
02:39completely eaten it in two hours almost ignoring the yolk at the same time the
02:45ants like the yolk more and they eat it more actively if we can of course call
02:50the speed of eating active in comparison with cockroaches while some of the ants
02:55are slowly finishing eating the egg the rest are hanging around let's check how
03:02the ants will behave if we put one cockroach to them it begins to rush in
03:07all directions literally from the start but the ants have already noticed the
03:11stranger the forest inhabitants immediately pounds begin to bite it and
03:16grab its paws such ants bite very painfully besides they spray with
03:21burning acid but even being on its back the cockroach tries to resist spinning
03:28around its axis and what's interesting is that the ants do not attack the
03:34insect altogether but only a few red soldiers the rest are just fussing
03:40around as if nothing is happening nearby at some point the ants grab the cockroach
03:45and carry it somewhere so one cockroach against a whole gang of aggressive ants
03:50is not a warrior at all let's see how the insects will react to the liquid
03:54product let it be Pepsi we draw the drink into a syringe and put a plastic
04:11container in each aquarium the cockroaches not only drink some even
04:23decide to swim however the ants also do not differ in organization but the speed
04:32of both groups of insects is different it takes the cockroaches only 20 minutes
04:37to empty the container but the ants need one hour and 15 minutes to do the
04:48same and now let's see how the ant and the cockroach will be versus each other
05:07one-to-one the Petri dish will act as an improvised octagon the ant immediately
05:15begins to chase the cockroach
05:45basically the ant has definitely become the winner here judging by the score it is definitely
05:54combative by nature which cannot be said about the cockroach let's offer two communities
05:59of insects one more yummy a banana we cut off two equal pieces and put them into each
06:07aquarium the ants again decide that there is nowhere to hurry well the cockroaches
06:17predictably surround the sweet fruit from all sides and they have eaten this banana
06:30in just 10 minutes the ants haven't coped even by half after the same time while the
06:39red forest dwellers are slowly enjoying the fruit it's time to check how three ants will
06:45feel in the company of 100 cockroaches perhaps the ants are not as fast in eating food as
06:51cockroaches but they definitely lead in matters of sharpness and conflict once they are inside
06:58the aquarium the Reds begin to hang around the cage searching for someone to fight one
07:09of the ants grabs the cockroaches paw and then it tries to throw it off helplessly running
07:14back and forth these fearless insects are still ready to rant and rave in spite of the
07:30numerical enemy superiority the main thing is that there is a victim the thousand by
07:35thousand fight is getting closer and meanwhile we'll give the insects a piece of boiled chicken
07:40it seems that the ants like meat much more than anything before they immediately pounce
07:53and everyone wants to tear off a piece moreover each of them pulls the meat so strongly in its
07:58direction that as a result the piece moves around the aquarium that's why we even have
08:04to rearrange the time-lapse camera all the time everything is stable with cockroaches
08:10as we have already found out they are omnivores so they do not refuse from meat
08:14the ants finally finished eating after an hour and 40 minutes this is the first product that
08:27they managed to eat before cockroaches the cockroaches completely turned away from the
08:34meat an hour later by the way they did not eat it but rather drank because all the moisture was
08:40extracted from it dried meat stopped interesting them so we gradually came to the main issue of
08:48our video what would happen if 1,000 redwood ants came across 1,000 ever hungry cockroaches
08:56we divide the ant aquarium into two halves moving the inhabitants into one part in the
09:03second part of the aquarium we put the whole cockroach population the battle begins well
09:10it's difficult to name it as a battle crazy cockroaches begin to run over the heads of
09:15the belligerent ants there has already been a sharp smell of formic acid above the aquarium
09:21after the battle beginning some cockroaches run into the corner to hide from the attack
09:27but they're the red owners are waiting for them pretty soon it's turned out that the
09:37situation is not in favor of the ants and the floor is covered with the bodies of the fallen
09:41in the battle although they are good fighters one by one it did not help them against hordes
09:46of cockroaches it would seem that the outcome of the battle is decided but suddenly something
09:53begins to happen the smell of acid appears in the cockroaches from the left half of the aquarium
09:59rushes in all directions the surviving ants have grouped and avenge their dead comrades
10:16judging by the fact how this ant beats a cockroach alone they are not going to give up in any case
10:23the outcome of the battle has not yet been decided and both groups intend to fight for a long time
10:28so let's leave them for a day after 24 hours we decide to take a look at how the battle is
10:34progressing there and an amazing picture appears in front of us the surviving ants like 300 Spartans
10:41group in one part of the aquarium and fight off all the attacks of cockroaches that are passing
10:46by the cockroaches have also lost a lot of fighters and therefore they do not risk approaching the
10:52evil ants thus the wall-to-wall battle ends that's all for now bye-bye