[Other Sport] Ants: ****ing hard.

[OzMike]

My foot came off second best to a bull ant in NSW outback. It left its reminder.

I sympathise with you.
I was walking around a lake here in a national park with my youngest daughter on my shoulders when one of these took exception to me and grabbed on to my big toe on my sandled foot.
I had to grit my teeth and carefully remove said daughter before I could get it off.
Seemed like an eternity and readily amused all that were with us.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

Sorry but to quote that eminent scientist and philosopher Shania Twain, that don't impress me much.

Any creature up to about the size of a mouse can quite happily be chucked off Beachy Head and walk away. It's all about terminal velocity.

 

[Grombleton]

Any creature up to about the size of a mouse can quite happily be chucked off Beachy Head and walk away. It's all about terminal velocity.

Is this a new venue for WHC 2020?

 

[OzMike]

I nominate the....................oh.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Sorry but to quote that eminent scientist and philosopher Shania Twain, that don't impress me much.

Any creature up to about the size of a mouse can quite happily be chucked off Beachy Head and walk away. It's all about terminal velocity.

I'm on a voyage of discovery today. Whilst googling just what exactly terminal velocity is I've just found out that the air is a fluid. A fluid! The sands of knowledge are shifting beneath my feet...

 

[clapham_gull]

I watched three ants ‘take down’ a bee on my back patio a few weeks back, fascinating to watch, one holding its leg down to stop it flying off, the other two attacking its head. I checked back an hour later and it was still going on, the bee losing the battle.

I guess the bee did get to take it to extra time.

 

[Swansman]

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Don’t mess with a Bullet Ant. No 1 on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, and coming in at 1.5 inches long. It’s called The Bullet Ant because its sting is equal to being shot according to some victims.

Thanks for the heads up, I promise not to mess with it the next time I'm deep in the Nicaraguan jungle.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Yeah but!

An ant can be terminally crushed by the little finger of a small child - no way on this planet can that ever be considered WHC ...

 

[Pevenseagull]

I've just found out that ants can't die from being dropped. They can fall from any height and they won't die upon landing. That's nuts.

Where was this knowledge during the Worlds Hardest Creature years?

by that criterion squirrels are hard.

 

[stewart12]

the thing that lets down any sort of ant in WHC is that a single ant isn't that impressive- they utilise strength in numbers

yeh- like a thousand ants can probably kill one bee. But one bee would absolutely destroy one ant

 

[clockend1983]

Maybe that’s true but they can get lost anywhere as they are so small