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Title: David Attenborough's Ant Mountain
Year: 2017
Genre: Nature Documentary
Release Date: 2026-08-11
URL: https://terramater.at/productions/attenboroughs-ant-mountain/

Source: WEB
Container: mkv
Files: 20
Size: 3.8 GiB
Duration: 00:52:05:13
Video: H264 / AVC / 1920 x 1080 / 25.000 fps / 9498 Kbps
Audio: English / Dolby Digital / 2 channels / 224 Kbps
Subtitles: English

Notes: The alpine mountains of the Swiss Jura set the stage
for a natural drama the epic tale of two cities.
On the surface, they appear almost identical but
over the course of a year, these cities will
experience dramatically different fortunes. Like
any city, they're made up of social networks and
transport infrastructures, to keep the inhabitants
informed and fed. But unlike our urban jungles,
these cities are made and run by wood ants…

The story is told, almost like a medieval saga:
David Attenborough is our guide through the
mysterious realm of ants, presenting a cast of
queens and workers, scouts and soldiers with all
their amazing stories.

On one hand, there is a gigantic super-city with
more than a thousand nest mounds. This ant
metropolis functions thanks to cooperation and by
avoiding conflicts between the members of different
mounds. As a result, this colony has grown into one
of the largest animal societies on Earth, with a
population as high as 1.2 billions. It has become a
city of peace.

On the other hand, we see a single mound city that's
always at war with other single cities nearby. Tens
of thousands of ants are killed each year in these
intense conflicts. Their fierce and dramatic battles
highlight a fundamental difference between the
single nest ants and the peaceful ants in the
super-colony.

The existence of these very different cities of the
same species of wood ants so close together puzzles
scientists. It challenges what they thought they
knew about ants.

'Attenborough's Ant Mountain' sheds light on the
mysterious origins of these extraordinary cities.
Over the course of a year, we experience an ant's
eye view of the unbelievable drama, tenderness and
aggression of life in the colonies. We meet a cast
of wood ant characters that lead us into their
secret lives. We delve into the remarkable
mechanisms that have evolved within the super-colony
and challenge theories about the evolutionary social
behaviour of ants.

Filming ants has always been a challenge, but
renowned producer and inventive cameraman Martin
Dohrn is used to shooting things that are hard to
get. For this production he used 'Frankencam', a
unique modular camera system with high sensitivity
and resolution that Dohrn has developed himself.
'Frankencam' allowed him to film ants from a
completely different point of view.

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