Ants running in a circle lost the pheromone trail and keep running in circles until they die.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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Why do deer do it
Merry-doe-round.
Bravdoe
Thank you for your cervids.
Cariboussel
Deer running in a circle lost connection to the hive mind and keep running in circles until they die. So sad
Protection from predators I'd wager
Truth or deer
Fun.
Or because they're being chased by FENTON!!
Ohhhh Jesus Christ! FENTON!
It's an oldie but it always makes me piss myself laughing... The desperation in his voice, the absolute ignorance of Fenton *Chefs kiss* perfection.
Cancer.
"An ant mill was first described in 1921 by William Beebe, who observed a mill 370 meters (1,210 ft) in circumference. It took each ant two and a half hours to make one revolution."
I'm curious where he found it. Sounds like quite a sight
Apparently, it was in a forest in Guyana. And well, perhaps you're imagining a filled-out spiral, but in this case, it looked like a normal ant migration at the first. They were going in 6 lanes at most and at 370 meters circumference, that just looks like a line until you follow it around.
That's according to this source, which seems to have excerpts from his book: https://themountainsarecalling.earth/the-army-ant-death-spiral/
That is fascinating. Thanks for sharing
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Ants are just like us humans! So cute.
Oh deer.
Humans at a metal concert (circle pit)
Pushing Little Children With Their Fully Automatics!
Deer.
Deers
Beers!
Bears
Battlestar Galactica
Identity theft, that's what's going on!
Beets.
Yeets
The plural form of deer is actually deese
That's nuts!
Deesi
Fishes
2 fish, but 2 kinds of fishes.
Deerhes
"I don't need to walk around in circles, walk around in circles, walk around in..." - Soul Coughing
I don't feel ants crawling all over me now at all
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I wonder if their spiraling is clockwise or counterclockwise depending on the hemisphere (Coriolis effect)... What if they do this exactly at the equator line (e.g. exactly at the Marco Zero from Brazilian Macapá)? So many questions...
deers
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