African driver ant

Most of us know them as siafu and try to avoid them at all costs but here are a few interesting facts about  African driver ant. A typical column  of siafu can contain about a million individuals ants a column the size would consume about fifty thousand prey items a day. Their prey item are insects, arachnids’, and warms, particularly grasshoppers, scorpions and large hairy spiders, but they will often attack larger prey if they have the chance, typically snakes or other reptiles trapped in their holes or nestlings unable to fly. Any injured creature is also at risk if it cannot move out of the ants’ way. A local village tell of cooped chickens or cows in bomas being stripped to the bone in a matter of days.

Unlike the other ten thousand or so ant species, African driver ants do not build complex underground nests. This is because they clear an area of prey quite quickly and need to move from one place to another. Instead they dig a large chamber underground, and then link their bodies together into a massive basket known as a bivouac. Inside this mass of siafu bodies, live the queen and her brood. The brood could be up to a million white maggots with a huge appetite for meat. Almost every siafu is a sterile daughter of the queen and these daughters care for the brood, defend the nest and kill the prey.

These sterile females are all blind. The male are fat and clumsy. The males are produced once a year from special clutch of eggs laid be the queen. These eggs develop into giant winged males that leave the colony on a nuptial flight.Unlike females, the males have very good eyesight, which they need  to find a new colony once he has found the colony he must impress the guards with his size, if he fails, they will cut him to pieces and feed the colonies and feed the colonies young with him; if he succeeds, then he will be allowed to mate with the queen, after which he is discarded.

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The traditional African safari was born in Kenya and now you can experience the celebrity on a Kenya safaris of a lifetime. The magnificence and diversity of the wildlife and landscape is unsurpassed. Imagine taking your family on an adventure safari holiday of a lifetime. Enjoying exciting encounters with elephant, leopard and rhinoceros in their natural habitat with your own local professional guide. Kenya is where the adventure safari was born and still remains the best safari holiday in the world. Be it in budget or luxury camping, standard or luxury safari lodge, exclusive mobile camping, modern villas, condos, beach resort all can be found at ease and  the  variety caters for each one special interest, whether in a family holiday ,student or for a single traveler. Doing everything at your pace, having everything organized around what interests your family. We offer a wide variety of attractions, where you can fly in a hot air balloon or even go walking through superb scenery and camp out under the stars as your masai guides sing around the camp fire. Refine your adventure holiday with a few days fun on the exotic Kenya coast. You might be lucky enough to witness the amazing annual wildebeest Great Migration on a Masai Mara safari in Kenya.

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Kenya is where the adventure safari was born and still remains the best safari holiday in the world. Be it in budget or luxury camping, standard or luxury safari lodge, exclusive mobile camping, modern villas, condos, beach resort all can be found at ease and  the  variety caters for each one special interest, whether in a family holiday ,student or for a single traveler.

 Adventure Camping

Adventure camping in Kenya offers you the utmost safaris experience since you have all time in control, camping safari gear in your adventure camping vehicles with our professional company chef cares for your diet where you even have a chance to taste the local cuisines.

Birdwatching

We offers the best birding in Kenya , bird watching Tanzania , birding in Rwanda and Uganda . All this regions  has an amazing wealth of birdlife due to lack of extreme variation in climate. More than 1,000 species of birds have been recorded in the vast variety of habitats in East Africa.

Mission Safaris

We offer exciting  programs that are tailor made for missionaries, religious groups, individuals, and Christians based organizations, who want to visit various places within Kenya, Tanzania , Uganda .Similarly we organize trips to serve in community based projects in partnership with organizations, whose main business is community service.

Masai Mara

The Masai Mara ‘the seventh wonder of the world’, lies in the Great Rift Valley, with an area of over 1,500 square km, the Masai Mara National Reserve is one of the most popular tourism destinations in Kenya and is the home to the biggest wildlife spectacle in the world, annual wildebeest migration which involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in October.

Nairobi Excursions

All our Kenya excursions, safaris and getaways sold to our customers are recommended from personal experience. We have the expertise of specialists when it comes to traveling to Kenya and East Africa enabling us to give the best advice and the best deal by consolidating our buying power.Over the years, we have tailored a new range of targeted packages to make it even easier for our customers to select the right holiday. This is combined with our honest and reliable approach and the best prices around.

Mt.Kenya Climbing

Mount Kenya a UNESCO World Heritage Site which stands at 5,199m is located to the east of the Great Rift Valley, about 175km North-East of Nairobi. It is the second highest peak in Africa. Its described as one of the most impressive landscapes in Eastern Africa with its rugged glacier-clad summits, Afro-alpine moorlands and diverse forests that illustrate outstanding ecological processes.

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