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A swarm of army ants.

A hive of Africanized honey bees.
 
bishbash said:
Clarifying the worst ant colony to face: Siafu Ants
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Thanks, yeah I figured with both of these suggestions, there would probably be examples of subspecies that were worse, but I chose the more well-known ones.
 
bishbash said:
Clarifying the worst ant colony to face: Siafu Ants
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West Texas fire ants would have something to say about this. Had a personal experience with those little fukkers.
 
Y'all don't know 'bout bullet ants do ya?

Edit: just read about saifu ants and all I can say is **** all that.

Do. Not. Want.
 
O.Z.O. said:
West Texas fire ants would have something to say about this. Had a personal experience with those little fukkers.
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Let’s face it. Africa is an extremely dangerous place and anything can die there very easily. Siafu ants are also called driver ants, safari ants, and army ants. They live primarily in central and east Africa, both in jungle and on savanna. They have no eyes. They communicate and navigate by smelling pheromones, and every few years a colony of 50,000,000 will decide to pick up and move in search of more fruitful hunting grounds.When they move, they form columns on the ground, with the smaller worker ants inside a tunnel formed by the larger soldier or guard ants. The ants average about an inch long, with the winged males the largest ant known at over 2 inches. They have venom and can sting with their abdomens, but it is insufficient to kill large animals. Instead, they rely on their bite. They have mandibles strong enough to cut through rhinoceros hide. And when the colony relocates, every animal in the entire area of many square miles, including the honey badger, leaves and may not return for weeks.

If one ant attacked you, you could stomp it or pick it off you. But ants don’t play fair. If you come within 25 meters of a colony on the move in column formation, they will smell you and come running to defend themselves. The bite is severely painful and once blood is drawn, your only defense is to run for your life. Attacking the ants is useless. A flamethrower might work but the ants do not know the use of fear and will either run across fiery ground to get at you, or wait until the fire dies away.They do not run fast and are easy to avoid, provided you are able to get away.

They are able to overpower any known animal, having brought down sick or injured elephants that could not escape. They have killed many people over the centuries, always infants or the injured, those who are unable to run. Once they are upon you, there is no easy way to get them off. Other ants will let go if you submerge in water. Siafu ants will hold their breath and bite for 3 minutes under water. A colony can strip an elephant to the bone in a month, and during that time nothing else except bacteria can approach the carcass. Vultures land on it and immediately fly away kicking ants off their feet.They are used as natural stitches by the indigenous peoples. A single ant is picked up and allowed to bite on either side of a wound, and then the body is pinched off, leaving the head with jaws locked shut.

They have venomous stings but hardly ever use them. They kill prey such as grasshoppers and small rodents simply by biting them to death. What they do is overwhelm any animal they can find and bite until the animal is incapacitated by agony. Smaller animals like insects are cut to pieces. The ants will enter the mouth of a larger animal and invade the lungs, biting the whole way, causing death by asphyxia.
 
bishbash said:
Let’s face it. Africa is an extremely dangerous place and anything can die there very easily. Siafu ants are also called driver ants, safari ants, and army ants. They live primarily in central and east Africa, both in jungle and on savanna. They have no eyes. They communicate and navigate by smelling pheromones, and every few years a colony of 50,000,000 will decide to pick up and move in search of more fruitful hunting grounds.When they move, they form columns on the ground, with the smaller worker ants inside a tunnel formed by the larger soldier or guard ants. The ants average about an inch long, with the winged males the largest ant known at over 2 inches. They have venom and can sting with their abdomens, but it is insufficient to kill large animals. Instead, they rely on their bite. They have mandibles strong enough to cut through rhinoceros hide. And when the colony relocates, every animal in the entire area of many square miles, including the honey badger, leaves and may not return for weeks.

If one ant attacked you, you could stomp it or pick it off you. But ants don’t play fair. If you come within 25 meters of a colony on the move in column formation, they will smell you and come running to defend themselves. The bite is severely painful and once blood is drawn, your only defense is to run for your life. Attacking the ants is useless. A flamethrower might work but the ants do not know the use of fear and will either run across fiery ground to get at you, or wait until the fire dies away.They do not run fast and are easy to avoid, provided you are able to get away.

They are able to overpower any known animal, having brought down sick or injured elephants that could not escape. They have killed many people over the centuries, always infants or the injured, those who are unable to run. Once they are upon you, there is no easy way to get them off. Other ants will let go if you submerge in water. Siafu ants will hold their breath and bite for 3 minutes under water. A colony can strip an elephant to the bone in a month, and during that time nothing else except bacteria can approach the carcass. Vultures land on it and immediately fly away kicking ants off their feet.They are used as natural stitches by the indigenous peoples. A single ant is picked up and allowed to bite on either side of a wound, and then the body is pinched off, leaving the head with jaws locked shut.

They have venomous stings but hardly ever use them. They kill prey such as grasshoppers and small rodents simply by biting them to death. What they do is overwhelm any animal they can find and bite until the animal is incapacitated by agony. Smaller animals like insects are cut to pieces. The ants will enter the mouth of a larger animal and invade the lungs, biting the whole way, causing death by asphyxia.
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And that's why we don't go to Africa.
 
bishbash said:
Let’s face it. Africa is an extremely dangerous place ...
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Think I read some where that Australia has the most and worst deadly poisonous critters anywhere. I think in Bryson's Down Under or his In a Sunburnt Country


Cheers
 
BostonTim said:
Think I read some where that Australia has the most and worst deadly poisonous critters anywhere. I think in Bryson's Down Under or his In a Sunburnt Country


Cheers
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That's just on land. Not safe in the water there either.
 
According to this random internet top ten list: http://www.top10listland.com/top-10-deadliest-ants/, the Saifu is only the 5th deadliest, but like everything else on the internet, it may be wrong.

My assumption for this thing would be it is a colony of deadly ants - take your pick of species when evaluating the opponent.
 
Whatever combatant takes you down, beware this little critter. He'll bury you and popcorn on you later.

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An industrious badger in Utah's Great Basin Desert was caught on camera burying a cow four to five times the little animal's own size.

The behavior has never been seen in the wild, and it was a total surprise to the researchers who accidentally captured time-lapse video of the burial, the scientists said. It was particularly surprising because they were attempting to study scavenging birds, not badgers, the researchers said. The badger spent five days excavating a hole around the cow carcass and burying the animal in it, before lolling around near its cache of food for weeks.

Link to full story.
 
bishbash said:
Let’s face it. Africa is an extremely dangerous place and anything can die there very easily. Siafu ants are also called driver ants, safari ants, and army ants. They live primarily in central and east Africa, both in jungle and on savanna. They have no eyes. They communicate and navigate by smelling pheromones, and every few years a colony of 50,000,000 will decide to pick up and move in search of more fruitful hunting grounds.When they move, they form columns on the ground, with the smaller worker ants inside a tunnel formed by the larger soldier or guard ants. The ants average about an inch long, with the winged males the largest ant known at over 2 inches. They have venom and can sting with their abdomens, but it is insufficient to kill large animals. Instead, they rely on their bite. They have mandibles strong enough to cut through rhinoceros hide. And when the colony relocates, every animal in the entire area of many square miles, including the honey badger, leaves and may not return for weeks.

If one ant attacked you, you could stomp it or pick it off you. But ants don’t play fair. If you come within 25 meters of a colony on the move in column formation, they will smell you and come running to defend themselves. The bite is severely painful and once blood is drawn, your only defense is to run for your life. Attacking the ants is useless. A flamethrower might work but the ants do not know the use of fear and will either run across fiery ground to get at you, or wait until the fire dies away.They do not run fast and are easy to avoid, provided you are able to get away.

They are able to overpower any known animal, having brought down sick or injured elephants that could not escape. They have killed many people over the centuries, always infants or the injured, those who are unable to run. Once they are upon you, there is no easy way to get them off. Other ants will let go if you submerge in water. Siafu ants will hold their breath and bite for 3 minutes under water. A colony can strip an elephant to the bone in a month, and during that time nothing else except bacteria can approach the carcass. Vultures land on it and immediately fly away kicking ants off their feet.They are used as natural stitches by the indigenous peoples. A single ant is picked up and allowed to bite on either side of a wound, and then the body is pinched off, leaving the head with jaws locked shut.

They have venomous stings but hardly ever use them. They kill prey such as grasshoppers and small rodents simply by biting them to death. What they do is overwhelm any animal they can find and bite until the animal is incapacitated by agony. Smaller animals like insects are cut to pieces. The ants will enter the mouth of a larger animal and invade the lungs, biting the whole way, causing death by asphyxia.
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reminds me of the family of my.... never mind I already said that before.
 
Undertaker #59* said:
According to this random internet top ten list: http://www.top10listland.com/top-10-deadliest-ants/, the Saifu is only the 5th deadliest, but like everything else on the internet, it may be wrong.

My assumption for this thing would be it is a colony of deadly ants - take your pick of species when evaluating the opponent.
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As Jaric mentioned, the Bullet Ant has world's most painful sting, but the Saifu is like the Borg on Star Trek: vast numbers and a total group dedication to destroy its target no matter what the consequences to self. Resistance is futile!

This is where the parameters of Jaric's set-up come into play. One Saifu Ant in a basketball gym with one Bull Elephant and they both wander around until the ant gets stepped on or the ant manages to bury its jaws in the elephant's hide and the elephant doesn't notice. Put a colony of 50,000,000 Saifu ants in the gym with the elephant and you'll end up with elephant bones at mid-court or an elephant sized hole in the gym wall.
 
Yes, my thought before ants were introduced was to limit pack size to 75% the weight of the animal it's fighting against if single. If it's pack on pack then we'd pick a total weight for both packs to enter as.

Edit:. So if we have 2000 pounds of bull elephant it would go up against 1500 pounds of wolf or lion or whatever

Well the ants throw that out the window, and I'm not sure how to handle that (suggestions?)
 
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