’Smugglers’: Army of ants caught carrying gold chain, watch

’Smugglers’: Army of ants caught carrying gold chain, watch

Mangalore Today News Network / News18

July 01, 2022: Ants are synonymous to hard work. This proverbial relationship finds its foundation in the fact that ants can do some unimaginable amount and degree of labour. We all have seen ants carrying giant dead insects to their nest. Ant armies work together and share the load.

 

A recent clip that surfaced on social media shows the same hard work but the loot is not some big insect but a gold chain. The video was catapulted to social media by Indian Forest Service officer, Susanta Nanda, who, in the caption, wrote, “Tiny gold smugglers. The question is, under which section of IPC they can be booked?

 

Tiny gold smugglers 😀😀
The question is,under which section of IPC they can be booked? pic.twitter.com/IAtUYSnWpv

— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) June 28, 2022

In the video, a tiny army of ants is seen carrying the gold chain fallen on the ground. It seems that the ants were too mesmerised by the bling of the gold and decided that the chain would be the offer of the day for their queen.

Since being shared, the video has accumulated more than 1.5 lakh views and close to 5,000 impressions from netizens in the form of likes, retweets, and comments. Users were surprised and equally impressed by what they were seeing. While many praised the intrinsic hard-working characteristic of the ants, many lauded the results of team effort.

One user wrote, “Team work makes any dream work.”

Another user commented, “What these ant-i-social elements doing a gold heist.”