Yellow Crazy Ants Kill Red Crab | 4K UHD | Planet Earth II

For millions of years, Christmas Island has been a tiny crab utopia. However, in recent years an invader has begun attacking and killing the local inhabitants. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub Watch more: Best of BBC Earth 🌍 https://bit.ly/BestOfBBCEarth Best Animal Fights 🥊 https://bit.ly/BestAnimalFights Videos over 10 minutes ⏰ https://bit.ly/3SHJCEJ Planet Earth III 🌍 https://bit.ly/PlanetEarthIIIPlaylist Frozen Planet II ❄️ https:/bit.ly/FrozenPlanetIIPlaylist Blue Planet II in 4k 🌊 https://bit.ly/BluePlanetII4kPlaylist Taken From Planet Earth II In one of the most ambitious landmark series, Planet Earth II allows us to experience how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth. Travelling through jungles, deserts, mountains, islands, grasslands and cities, this series explores the unique characteristics of Earth's most iconic habitats and the extraordinary ways animals survive within them. New technology has allowed individual stories to be captured in an unparalleled level of detail. Welcome to BBC EARTH! The world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder. Here you'll find 50 years worth of entertaining and thought-provoking natural history content. Dramatic, rare, and exclusive, nature doesn't get more exciting than this. This is a commercial page from BBC Studios. Service information and feedback: http://bbcworldwide.com/vod-feedback--contact-details.aspx

Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean for millions of years this remote Speck of land has been ruled by crabs their ancestors came from the sea but most have now adopted a landbased existence given there are so many of them they get along relatively harmoniously they're the gardeners and caretakers of a tiny crab Utopia once a year they must all return to the Sea to breed and the march of the red crabs is one of the greatest natural Spectacles on [Music] Earth there are 50 million of them [Music]

it's an event that has brought the island worldwide [Music] Fame but in recent years millions of red crabs haven't managed to reach the sea an Invader has occupied this island yellow Crazy Ants they escaped from visiting ships and with no predators to control them they have now created fast super colonies in the [Music] forest when migrating red crabs March into their territory the ants attack squirting acid into the crabs eyes and mouths the crabs have no [Music] defense blinded and Confused t

hey're doomed humans brought these an Invaders Here and Now humans are having to control them isolated communities May evolve for millions of years in relative peace but when new challenges arrive they can struggle to cope of all the species that have become extinct in recent Years Around 80% have been Islanders