You know what's really awesome? Ants! Man, ants are amazing they live in huge colonies underground, they have a Queen who is their mother at the same time, they're super clean, they know how to cultivate fungi to feed the whole colony, they are really similar to us, they even go and raid other colonies to rob the young and make them their slaves... yeah... ants make slaves... cute huh!

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Most of the ants species don't engage in this particular, not so freedomy behavior, but some species take the whole we are metal AF we were on a Rammstein video once business too seriously and adopted a rather radical approach to survival and those ant species are commonly called Slave-making Ant _{oh wow how would have thought? What a surprise!} and their tactics can get big on the scary part!

These slave-making ants are experts on a process called brood raiding that consist of attacking a nearby ant colony and sack everything, they take eggs, larvae, pupae and even workers are taken to the slave-making ant's nest to make them, well, slaves you know, they do this to increase the workforce of their colony, just like the human Romans and Spartans did, workers are slaves taken from other places while the locals concentrate on their punchy-punchy stabby-stabby business _{to bring back home more slaves and the circle of life blah blah blah}

But there's a species of ant called Ravoux's slavemaker ant that think all this raiding is child's play and takes to a whole new level, first the Ravoux's queen goes to a nearby colony and fakes her own death _{this is an Italian ant so expect a lot of drama out of this} the poor oblivious colony workers take the death queen inside and there she springs to life again and look for the colony's queen to assassinate her, once she killed their queen she bathes on her pheromones so the workers take care of her, then she starts to produce new slave-making ants that quickly overrun the other ants and take over the colony MUAHAHA HAHAHA MUAHAHAHAHAHA... Yep, Ravoux's slavemaker ant has no chill, to witness an ant with a lot of chill see the gif below _{that ant is carrying a huge joint, it's so funny}

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Long Live the Queen | Animal Fight Night
Ant colony raids a rival nest - Natural World - Empire of the Desert Ants - BBC Two
Ravoux's slavemaker ant | Wikipedia
Slave-making ant | Wikipedia

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