If 2016 has taught us anything, and that's debatable, it's that people care about animals as much as they care about humans. Maybe more.
We saw it with
this weekend's penguin war, and it's happened again with the latest episode of the David Attenborough-narrated 'Planet Earth 2'.
Now, we're not sure if you had 'ants vs crabs' in your sweepstake for how the world will end. But if you did, you might well be on to something on the strength of this.
In short, the segment on the show involved red crabs being attacked by yellow crazy ants on Christmas Island.
https://twitter.com/BBCEarth/status/795364794530414596
Sounds fairly mundane, but it's not.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeOsborn/status/795366076188131328
If you wanted an idea of the drama, all you needed to do was to look at Twitter when shit started to get real.
https://twitter.com/jayjaffa/status/795365175201333248
https://twitter.com/Regista_Michael/status/795365344730894336
https://twitter.com/FernRiddell/status/795365108562202624
https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/795365332009492481
Perhaps we should have seen this all coming, though. I mean, they are literally called 'Yellow Crazy Ants'.
https://twitter.com/iggigg/status/795365152401096705
https://twitter.com/skovern/status/795365510321946624
But for some people the bloodshed and violence just wasn't enough.
Some people just like to sit back and watch the world burn.
https://twitter.com/greg_jenner/status/795367056594141186
The clip is yet to surface in full online, so for the time being why not restore some measure of calm with the series trailer, with much more peace and far fewer ant attacks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8aFcHFu8QM
