Originally published at: Watch timelapse video of ants devouring a tangerine slice | Boing Boing
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The reverse, at the end of the video, is how I expect tiny robots to build things. Videos like this are good, so I can get used to a future where swarmbots vomit up a replacement part, a new device or replacement limb, organ or tissue.
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So are these guys eating the tangerine or taking it home to the family?
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Would it make a difference if the area wasn’t lit up 24 hours/day?
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Nope. Ever since I saw Hereditary, lots of ants on things are a no-go.
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I’m a little surprised that they didn’t clean up after themselves. It looked like there was a lot of tangerine scattered about - maybe if the author went to 50 hours we’d see that disappear as well.
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One of our cats makes about that kind of mess in a larger scale, except it’s brown and smelly. Maybe we should feed them tangerines.
Neat video. I use peanut butter and laundry borax to get rid of them in the house. We have a lot of of them because one of our cats makes about that kind of mess in a larger scale . . .
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Reminds me of this fun piece of cinematography from this opening sequence from Better Call Saul:
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Even more satisfying at 2x playback speed. 
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I imagine that’s the bits of the tangerine that weren’t useful to the ants. Likely the ‘pulp’ stuff that even we humans don’t like.
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not to be pedANTic but why did the time scale speed up? Pick a speed and stick with it. Videos like this are why some people exhibit such a skewed idea of how long it takes ants to devour something to various stages of completion.
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It’s great how they put it all back together at the end. If only we humans could do that too – replenish the oceans, reforest the Amazon, suck all that CO2 back out of the atmosphere….
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Yes, I was wondering why/how the left over debris was scattered and, for me. that pattern was more interesting. I (the ant) will take this rubbish away to a distance that will make my colleague ants farm more efficiently.
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We are all Tangerines…
That’s the same reason why I don’t want Ants in my pants. Just saying…
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