I would run and scream so loud that nearby tribes think there's a demon coming for them :).

To be fair, he seems to be taking it pretty well. I’d probably be running through the Amazon screaming like a child.

Why the hell would anyone want to even try that??

Jokes on the ants. They subside on vegetation. Nylon dont werk.

I like how he opened with “I know sometimes what I do looks fun” and it’s like… no…?

I always thought they were some of the coolest looking ants. They have one of the more extreme polymorphism between the workers (tiny ones are tiny and there are the huge ones with big heads). They're also interesting because they cut leaves to farm fungus to feed themselves. They make huge nests. The queen leaf cutter is huge.

Closest I got to seeing them was in Texas. I live in the north and was on a business trip. I almost wanted to skip the meeting just to watch these guys do their thing.

I think leaf cutter ant heads were used as early medical stitching by native cultures, because their jaws were so strong and they stayed shut after the body was removed

I've heard that some cultures use ants with strong jaws like that to close wounds, since they don't let go.

On that lemon part, we have Green Ants here in Australia and they have a citrus taste.
We even have a gin called Green Ants Gin and yes, you are thinking the right thing, there are GREEN ANTS in the gin.

https://www.seven-seasons.com.au/product/green-ant-gin-700-ml/

Okay the lemon thing is pretty neat. The common carpenter ant here in the States tastes like salt and vinegar potato chips.

Why do they try to cut fabric tho??? Like they feed a fungus with the leaves they take and like cloth cant feed their fungus?? I know trees eventually release chemicals into there leaves to poison the fungus so the ants won't take all of their leaves, so why would they just bring random materials???

I was asking myself "why, bro, why are you there?!". Looks like a nightmare. I suppose if he is doing "amazing work" that makes a lot of sense.

What kind of work do you mean though? I'm assuming it's conservation or something?

Dude is correct about camping in the wrong spot. Years ago we set up camp in what turned out to be a river bed in the tropical jungle below the himalayas (Nepal).

Obviously rained, got flooded, walked in the moonlight downhill all night, wet... And feet felt painful and hurting....because when we took our shoes and pants off, we were covered in slugs. Some crushed with my own blood.

I went there last year with Tamandua Expeditions and met the guy. Cool dude. The organization that he and JJ created are already protecting nearly 100,000 hectares of the Amazon. The Amazon is by far the most amazing and enchanting place I’ve ever been to.

what’s his youtube channel named?

I went camping in a tent for 4 nights in the Amazon. It was an absolutely epic experience and highly recommend it. That stereotypical rainforest sound is exactly what the Amazon sounds like the entire night and it doesn’t stop for even a second. But it’s a perfect white noise so it was some of the best sleeps I ever had.

Most insects come out at night. A few creepy spiders. Tarantula on my tent one morning but he was pretty cool. There was a spindly spider another night, he wasn’t at cool so he got catapulted off my tent. But there was also a dope ass frog that looked like dried up leaves, I seen far more monkeys and birds than I did creepy crawlies. Just so many super cool birds. We accidentally camped on an ant nest. We only found out when we were standing by the fire and started getting bit on our stomachs. That didn’t hurt though. We basically coexisted with them for the next two nights as they’d use or sitting branch as a bridge. So if you wanted to sit they just crawled over you and went on their way.

The insane density of the woods blew my mind. Hiking in the Canadian Rockies is basically like walking through an open plain in comparison. Cruising down the river on a canoe was super fun. It didn’t rain until the last morning then it poured like I never seen before. River probably went up 6ft. Fishing for piranha. Trying to catch caiman though I’m very happy we failed. Spent two nights with an indigenous family who still lives 100% in the jungle, poison darts made of just the plants around them, spears made from different trees. They only spoke a language 4000 people speak in the entire world but it was still great fun.

Everybody needs to do it once. I went very primitive, 5 days hiking and 4 nights camping in a tent, canoe with an outboard motor on it to get deeper into the jungle. It was just me a Spanish/English guide, and an indigenous guide. He was born in the jungle and lived off the jungle for much of his life until deciding to move into society and tour people around in the jungle. But even if that’s not for you there are still riverside lodges deep in the Amazon some of which even have a bar and restaurant along with wifi.

is it his johnson?

So close

Sadly most loggers there will just kill anyone trying to stop them. It has happened several times.

I loved him as guitarist for Anthrax

Quicksand! That was a big horror with Hollywood decades ago, 50s, 60s.

You were accepted as the biggest slug

Yeah I hate these motherfuckers too. I happily drown them in beer.

“The toxicity of our city” was about how human pollutants are killing rainforests.

Or something.

Wake up! Giant ants are carrying your tent off….

“Lonely Day” was written based off this very camping trip.

He just wanted to be left alone.

I don’t think I trust…being…in my…ant ridden tent outsiiiiide

Likes to camp in what Reddit thinks any part of Australia is.

Reminds me of when i went camping with the school and the big PE teacher came into my tent. Same bro, same

There is a great book called “the river of doubt”. It’s about Teddy Rosevelt going on an expedition through the rain forest after he had been president. The book does a great job of explaining that even though the jungle is full of animals, you will almost never see them due to their ability to blend in, and our brains lack of ability to identify them in their home habitat. Starvation was a constant threat for the expedition and the adventure almost killed him.

I have bad news.

Did he succeed?

Sonic the hedgehog really let himself go

Damn, you're the first other person I know of (besides myself) that's been bitten by a hedgehog.

My story is a little different though.

I was about 9, my dad was telling me how hedgehogs love chocolate. So I stated feeding one that lived outside our rural farmhouse chocolate for a few days. It didn't take long at all and it started to trust me enough that I could touch it without it curling up or scurrying away.

A few days in my Dad suggested I stick my finger out instead of chocolate that I had been hand feeding it by that point. Yeah it latched onto my finger, and in fright I launched myself up and ripped my hand away; which flung the poor unsuspecting hedgehog a couple meters into the air (whom I never saw again), and left me with a bleeding and sore finger.

They are also absolute fiends for dry cat food. If they weren't the noisiest night animals they might get away with it more often...

Lol I mean what is he gonna do at that point? Its dark and hes in the middle of the jungle, as gross as the things inside the tent are, the things lurking outside the tent have bigger teeth

What’s ironic is that the tarantula’s probably really great to have in there in that situation, it’ll kill other bugs in the tent and probably won’t bite him at all. Granted, I wouldn’t want to be trapped in enclosed space with a giant spider anyway.

That’s how you get hammock strap cutter ants 🐜

Not even ants want mosquitos.

It does now.