The BONE SNATCHING Colony Explained | The Bone Snatcher

I HAD TO REUPLOAD THIS BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHH. Anyhow thank you for watching, big sad I had to delete the other one. Also if you want to support the channel heres the merch link! www.roanokemerch.com/

A skeleton being driven by ants is a neat yet freaky concept

"The Ants Go Marching" playing throughout the whole video is hilarious in a dark sort of way.

Information correction: Eusocial insects aren't actually "driven/controlled by the queen" in any way. That's an old assumption we made based on human hierarchies. The queen of a eusocial colony is basically just a glorified egg sack, with no ability to control any other members; and in fact, if the workers sense that the queen is sick or has stopped laying eggs, they totally can and will kill her and raise a new queen larva. The very cool thing about this is it means that the intelligence, problem-solving, and structure-building of the eusocial insects is an emergent property - it's the cumulative effect of a whole bunch of unintelligent individuals following simple rules, acting together. Each individual worker emits pheromones, and responds to the pheromones it encounters, and the colony as a whole behaves based on the proportions of pheromones among its members. It's truly fascinating stuff, and in my opinion, an even cooler and scarier premise for a horror movie!

Everyone thinks ants are cool until you find them in your house. Then we all get possessed by that primal instinct of "hate anything that isn't human." Keep up the banger content, Roanoke!

I'll just rewatch it, like I usually do!

I am so lucky to live in a society where my lack of any kind of averse reaction to scuttling things doesn't immediately get me killed. My reaction when I see a spider or centipede is more of an "aaw" than an "AAAGH!", and if I lived in Australia, that'd get me killed twelve times before lunch.

"I'm the guy explaining the movie to you I should probably have listened to that" I cannot express how much I relate to this statement on every level

9:06 I graduated from a college in a super rural part of Colorado and one of my biology teachers would take us out on the range sometimes during the summer to find dead cows to rattle to show us how the decomposition worked in a semi arid desert. Not even close to the strangest part of that school but I loved it.

The ants go marching theme made me genuinely laugh in addition to like 5 other moments. You're swiftly becoming my favorite YouTuber.

A lava rock quit his job at the volcano today. He said they took him for granite. always enjoying the content, hope y'all have a damn good 2024!

I remember watching this on the syfy channel way back when. It looked as cheap as most of the movies on that channel, but that scene where the swarm is crawling around wearing that woman's face was genuinely well executed and unsettling. It's the lasting image I have from this movie

I loved the ant colony mechanism, it hits the uncanny valley, horror, and natural behaviors. Beautiful. Also ants vs anglerfish?

If you watched the 2018 series "Nightflyers"; in an outtake of the production they were going to be getting the actors used to the robots on set. There was a robot whose purpose was to travel through airducts to flush out escaped lab animals or perform minor repairs. This thing was built on the lines of a spider, because of course it was. It was a puppet mostly but the actors got quite the scare when told this is what you are going to have to be afraid of and the damn thing scuttled forward much faster than anyone had expected it was capable of.

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Dude if ants ever figure this out imma cry big L

Ants don't actually follow orders from the queen. They all produce different pheromones based on what they experience at the moment: danger, hunger, cold, nearby food, etc., which mixes into a more complex communication network. Ants just react to all the pheromones in the area, either following the strongest one, or they do something based on a more compicated weighted average of sorts. The queen is just as much a slave to this as any other ant. Her programming is just slightly different. Instead of *explore when hungry*, hers is *stay at home and lay eggs."

I honestly don’t understand how someone can look at those bodies and think it was a murder.

I remember half watching this a few years ago and somehow missing the part where the ants actually killed anybody, so when they decided to destroy the sapient ant colony I was outraged that the first other intelligent species we've ever found was exterminated on pure xenophobia.

Filmmakers: "Let's make a movie about fast flesh-eating intelligent ant colony!" Roanoke Gaming: "Let me give the detailed explanation." Filmmakers: 👁👄👁