CARL MARSHALL: Don't tred on an ant, he's done nothing to you...

Here is a brief video of a Bornean giant forest ant, Camponotus gigas that we found near our camp in Ulu Kimanis, Sabah. This large worker ant was nearly 3cm in length and was surprisingly docile - although apparently when provoked this species does deliver an extremely painful bite! The footage gives a good indication of the ants enormous size as it climbs upon my colleagues wrist.