@futurebird Naturals in front of the camera!

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cal-i-FOR-ni-a coast <3

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@nev dammit to hell. I work Sunday evenings and always miss #monsterdon and this one looks really fun. Someday I will get to play with the giant ants.....

Seeing some UFOs man? Well that's crazy talk. What did the aliens look like mister? Ants? Suuuure buddy. Alien ants.
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I think this guy is just actually literally 9 feet tall #monsterdon #them1954

They just need some large

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so in the 1950s, you apologize for mentioning pants, but then accidentally flash the lady with hardly a comment? okay. #monsterdon

"Scared me out of my pants! ..scuse me, ma'am." Mentions of pants in the presence of a lady?? #monsterdon

@Taweret To be fair, his pants are pretty offensive. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon True Movie Fact this is what Boomhauer sounded like before the "accident."

did he just apologize to her for mentioning the exitence of his pants?

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@north he saw an ant flying saucer!!!!! #monsterdon

DAVEEEEEYYY DAVY CROCKET

king of the wild ant frontier

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wait, I stepped away for 2 minutes, why is there a guy in a bathrobe?

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#Monsterdon oh i love science pat's blouse

This guy looks like Charlie Sheen lol #monsterdon #them1954

"..you promise not to laugh at me?"
"Yes."
"And the cluckin? Will there be cluckin?"

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Daniel Boone (Fess Parker) knows flying ants when he sees them #monsterdon

Note that not all ants are dulotic (slave-making). <https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Dulosis> Other ants are kind of like…colonizers? They just kind of move in to someone else's nest and take over. And that's just scratching the surface of the complexity of ant govermance and warfare!!!!

Sorry I know I'm using a lot of exclamation marks tonight, but in my defence, ANTSALKJSDFLKAJSDFLKASJ

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I also am a chronic aggressor who has an instinct and talent for industry, social organization, and savagery.

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"Unnatural things alive or dead"

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Oops, sorry pilot. Governments gonna do that.

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Is that Davey Crockett? #Monsterdon

@apLundell Fun fact: Zombies are actually ants
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DC to Brownsville in less than 3 hours in the pre-jet era?

Well, *now* the movie is indulging in the truly fantastic

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Wow, I wonder if Sully would've been as good as this pilot. Giany ants are worse than geese in a midair collision.

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"Real TS stuff! You know, legal name changes, surgery top and bottom!" #Monsterdon

NIMOY! Boy he was a handsome man #monsterdon #them1954

One of the guys at the table in “Washington” looked a little like Eisenhower, who was president when this was made. #Monsterdon

Watch out for these definite signs of ant activity!

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oh man i'm missing the giant ants one

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@Taweret "if i see a member of that other group it's on sight me or them" sounds like war and also predation #monsterdon

HI LEONARD! (uncredited) #Monsterdon #THEM

Good thing it wasn't an ant that crawled into that chamber with Jeff Goldblum.

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#Monsterdon when is the news NOT looking for unnatural things alive or dead

holy shit nimoy's voice

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UNNATURAL THINGS ALIVE OR DEAD

Oh, you flatterer :3 #Monsterdon

flying saucers shaped like ants heaven have mercy pleas let it be so #monsterdon

Flying saucers?? Did I miss something?

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Flying saucers shaped like ants you say?

Talk about a lucky guy.

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THEFTS OF SUGAR SYRUPS SWEETS

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@CactuarJoe which left us on 17 letters of the alphabet. #monsterdon

"UNNATURAL THINGS ALIVE OR DEAD"

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AP, IP, UP, everybody Ps! #Monsterdon

"...can't tell you a thing boys, we're under extremely hush hush rules."

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Wait, how are the New Mexico ants going to get to Asia/Africa? They don't swim thousands of miles right?
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@Taweret most species are in some state of what you could consider war at all times #Monsterdon

@raindrops_and_roses Sounds good to me. <dies>

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AP, PU, UPI

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I’m perilously close to learning something about ants #Monsterdon

Adding to the movie time with some film strips from a kids science class.
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An ant fight that lasted for 72 hours? Humans should just surrender now.
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Oh boy they rolled in the projector we're going to watch a video in class today!

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#Monsterdon "an ant would kill you and enslave your family if it could... and now it can"

@ramsey Someone asked about his hyper focus and he's going to make them regret it.

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"In some cases, for reasons no one understands, ants occasionally fling themselves off cliffs in huge numbers."

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someone has a Special Interest. (^_^) #monsterdon

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don't monkeys have wars? I'm pretty sure I've seen videos of them doing it

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#Monsterdon they dont stop being adorable @futurebird i get it! even when theyre fighting it looks like little kids doing a slapfight lol

"The males are unequipped to survive after mating."

Sure, that's a safe way to put it.

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Ants sound a lot like bees
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"Doctor, will this be on the exam?"

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Ants are just like us!

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Flashback to when I found a _Lasius_ gyne right after she took off her wings! https://inaturalist.ca/observations/242803347 #Monsterdon

Ants! Ants for industry!

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We're getting a whole flood of pro-ant propaganda here.

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So ants are the Klingons of the insect world?

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"wedding flight" has such weird social implications to me which seem completely inapplicable to ants #monsterdon

#monsterdon Cops, donuts, etc.

(10x their weight, and a ton is 2000, so "a ton and a half or more" is 3000 lbs, thus they'd have to be 300 lbs each!)

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#Monsterdon technically *I* should be referred to as a princess!

if it was 70 years ago I’d be making a good honest living emptying ashtrays #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon heehee the ants are so cute!

Don't shoot til you see the black of the Antennie.
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Was that Ike in that meeting?

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They could have just done some math, but no, they had to get some fancy scales involved.

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tech-i-nic-i-ly

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They said Them!

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Anyone else suddenly remembering Honey I Shrunk The Kids right now?

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"radar-like antennae" #monsterdon

Wait., _C. vicinus_ Mayr? Ernst Mayr? Daaaaamn! #taxonomy #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "lemme explain what's going on" *starts narrating to a 1950s tiktok about ants*

He was rehearsing this narration all night #monsterdon

"Savage mandibles"

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So he’s not just a desert beat cop? #Monsterdon

ant farrrrrrrrrrrrm

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And we have cigarette smoking! Both smoking and coffee!

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And now comes the science lesson #monsterdon

Love that they have time for a smoke & educational film strip

fighting monsters in the 50s was so glamorous!

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oh the fifties! Everyone smoking on a closed room.
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"Okay shitheads, you laughed at my warnings about ants, so I'm here to SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!" #Monsterdon

(ugh, probably in my f-ing basement as well.) #monsterdon

please yes film within a film for some exposition this is peak 1950s #monsterdon

#monsterdon For your edification I've prepared a short film: /puts on "shake hands with danger"

:blobaww: It's Movie Day in science class today! #Monsterdon

So yeah, if you thought fire and buildings was bad, wait until you see fire in caves. Whole atmosphere gone just like that :BlobcatFlamethrower: :raccoonFlamethrower:

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Yeees educational short film within a film #monsterdon

no police are better at creating panic than handling it #monsterdon