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.
Each year, 50 million red crabs march back to the sea to breed #PlanetEarth2 pic.twitter.com/XCjpCJZb2y
— BBC Earth (@BBCEarth) November 6, 2016
Sounds fairly mundane, but it’s not.
Attenborough: "50m red crabs march to the sea"
Me: "Aww"
A: "Unless yellow ants spray acid in their mouths and eyes"
Me:…#PlanetEarth2
— George Osborn (@GeorgeOsborn) November 6, 2016
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
WHAT ARE THE YELLOW CRAZY ANTS GOING TO DO TO THE TINY CRAB UTOPIA. #planetearth2
— Dr Fern Riddell (@FernRiddell) November 6, 2016
"And now a nice story about crabs"
Phew good
"who are at WAR WITH A NATION OF SUPER POWERED CRAZY ANTS"
For the sake of fuck#planetearth2— TechnicallyRon (On all the platforms) (@TechnicallyRon) November 6, 2016
Perhaps we should have seen this all coming, though. I mean, they are literally called ‘Yellow Crazy Ants’.
You know you're an asshole when your literal species name has the word crazy in it
— IRC (@iggigg) November 6, 2016
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.
This is great telly, but we're all thinking it:
Yellow Crazy Ants versus Killer Snake Army is the show we REALLY wanna see
#PlanetEarth2— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) November 6, 2016
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.
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