Jumping Ants! Gigantiops destructor

Follow Josh on twitter:   / drstrangeant   Follow Adrian on twitter:   / dradriansmith   Special thanks to Prof Andy Suarez for making this video possible:   / andrewvsuarez   Josh collected these ants, in part, thanks to the Whitten Fellowship from UIUC’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Stay tuned for a summary of Josh's paper on the mechanics of the Gigantiops jump! Music by https://www.soundofpicture.com/ References: Wheeler's "Cyclopean insect-jaguar" description: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi... Gigantiops maze experiment: https://link.springer.com/article/10.... Myrmecia & Harpegnathos jumps: https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publ... Odontomachus trap-jaw jumps: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wil... Odontomachus jumping video:    • Trap-jaw ants jump forward and backward (O...