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and all day as well. They form either highways as they travel from their lair to the hunting field or fans when they are actively hunting. Siafu hunt by sensing the carbon dioxide that insects and animals breath out. If a person is playful and brave, or just plain stupid, they can tease the Siafu by blowing on the trails of ants and watching them burst into activity, pincers held high, looking for prey. Siafu nests of a few days old are typically a hole in a tree with a thick pile of insect bodies piled up outside the opening. While the bulk of the Siafu’s food is insects, they can eat a small animal such as a shrew or a frog if it happens to get caught. Some people have claimed to see Siafu moving by forming terrifying rolling balls as large as a basketball. In truth, these swarms of Siafu do occur, but they are normally a mass of Siafu surrounding and biting a prey animal, and are seldom more than a few inches across. People claim that these fierce little warriors can climb up inside the trunk of an elephant and bite. It is doubt- ful that anyone has been close enough to witness this, but when the Siafu are particularly active, such as after a rain storm, you will never find elephants in the same Riverine Forest. Siafu, though aggressive and painful, are not at all a bad thing, even for people. If you live in Africa and Siafu swarm into your house, they eat all of the other ants, roaches, spiders, and every- thing else that slithers crawls or creeps, and then they go, leaving you in peace. Peace, that is, as long you have somewhere to stay for a day or two. ~ http://www.serengeti.org/flying_ant.html How SIAFU Chapters Work SIAFU is a national association of Chapters anchored in local urban churches and ministries designed to identify, equip, and release spiritually qualified servant leaders to reach and transform the poorest unreached communities in urban America. Chapters are hosted within local churches or related ministries. Since local churches are the outposts of the Kingdom, all SIAFU Chapters are connected to and under the authority* of a local church or ministry.