15 Terrifying Animals That Are Way Smaller Than You

15. Driver Ants

Normally, when you think of ants, you imagine a single underground colony with millions of drones, a single fat queen, and the closest thing to ideal communism on Earth. However, there’s one subspecies of ant that throws that preconception out the window: the Driver ant, named for its constantly-mobile colony that keeps moving forward without stopping, devouring everything in its path.

If you were ever looking for a real-life example of an actual juggernaut that won’t stop no matter what’s in front of it, it’s the Driver Ant. These mobile colonies number in the tens of millions, and they behave like a single entity, akin to a hive mind collective. If you attack one ant, the rest of the colony will respond, and soon you’d find yourself being overwhelmed by millions of vicious ants.

This is the kind of creature that possesses the ability to bring about genuine fear from those who cross them. Every human has a preconception of ants as being those small creatures that get crushed underfoot before scattering away, running in fear. But Driver Ants will keep coming, and no matter how much you try and crush them, more will keep coming.

It’s like a zombie apocalypse, only instead of mindless flesh-hungry humanoids seeking human flesh to consume, it’s tens of millions of insects seeking to destroy whatever’s in their path. So…yeah, aside from the difference in legs, those two things might as well be one in the same.