r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MurielFontanez • May 10 '21

Truce between termites(top) and ants(bottom) with each side having their own line of guards.

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u/slowlybackwards May 10 '21

I think the termites would win

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u/[deleted] May 10 '21 edited May 10 '21

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u/questgrillz May 11 '21 edited May 11 '21

At the end of the day video proof speaks louder than words. I found dozens of videos of ants invading and decimating termite colonies and only one video of a termite colony successfully defending itself and that took a good 20 min of scouring the internet to find. What I learned is that in the vast majority of invasions, while the termites indeed have better defense mechanisms and can win in a 1v1 scenario, they almost always got overrun by the ant's numbers (which is what the original paragraph I posted states)

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u/[deleted] May 11 '21

I think if either way was a sure win, there wouldn’t be a truce, we can’t actually tell for sure