Juergen Freund / Moromaho Island is home to thousands of Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera). Twice a year farmers come to this island to harvest copra, the meat of the coconut, which is the source of coconut oil. Wakatobi...

John Downer / Trained Macaque collects coconuts for owner. Bali Ko Samui, Bali, Indonesia.

John Downer / Pigtail macaque {Macaca nemestrina} trained to collect coconuts from trees, Ko Samui, Thailand

John Downer / Pigtail macaque {Macaca nemestrina} trained to climb palm trees to collect coconuts Ko Samui, Thailand

David Tipling / Fallen Coconuts from Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) on beach. Fatboys, Babanga island, New Georgia Islands, Solomon Islands.

Tony Wu / Coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) with three crowns, Tongatapu Island, Kingdom of Tonga

Pedro Narra / Coconut on Beach with sea in background, Principe Island, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe.

Jen Guyton / Red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis) feeding on coconuts in the Cartagena Botanic Gardens, Colombia.

TJ Rich / Street vendor selling coconuts and lottery tickets, Petta district, Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 2012.

Daniel Heuclin / Mentawai man with coconuts. Siberut Island, Sumatara July 2016.

Daniel Heuclin / Mentawai man climbing tree to harvest coconuts. Siberut Island, Sumatara July 2016.

Juergen Freund / Fijian boy climbing tree to get Coconuts (Cocos nucifera) Mali Island, Macuata Province, Fiji, South Pacific. August 2013

Juergen Freund / Fijian boy opening coconut (Cocos nucifera) Mali Island, Macuata Province, Fiji, South Pacific. August 2013

Cyril Ruoso / Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, grooming owner, Malaysia.

Cyril Ruoso / Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, with owner, Malaysia.

Cyril Ruoso / Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, feeding after harvesting coconuts, Malaysia.

Cyril Ruoso / Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, climbing trees, Malaysia.

Cyril Ruoso / Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, climbing trees, Malaysia.

Cyril Ruoso / Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, climbing trees, Malaysia.

Cyril Ruoso / Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, grooming owner, Malaysia.

Cyril Ruoso / Man transporting his Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, Malayasia.

Cyril Ruoso / Man training a young Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) to pick coconuts, Malayasia.

Pete Oxford / Sign warning of falling coconuts, Fiji, South Pacific, July 2014.

Pal Hermansen / Man climbing tree to harvest Coconuts (Cocos nucifera), Sri Lanka, March 2005.

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) with 80 year old owner who trains monkeys to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive Macaque trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) sits on the coconuts it is trained to pick and eats a banana, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) trained to pick coconuts, sits on the lap of his owner who is counting his money from coconut sales, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive animal trained to pick coconuts, drinks coconut milk offered by owner, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) men sorting coconuts on ground picked by trained captive Macaques, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) training to pick coconuts starting very young, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive animal trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive animal trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive animal trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) throwing coconuts from palm tree, trained to pick nuts for its master who keeps the monkey on a leash, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive animal trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) this captive Macaque is trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Mark Carwardine / Aye-aye {Daubentonia madagascariensis} feeding in coconut palm tree at night, Aye-aye Island, NE Madagascar

Mark Carwardine / Aye-aye {Daubentonia madagascariensis} feeding in coconut palm at night, Aye-aye Island, NE Madagascar

Mark Carwardine / Aye-aye {Daubentonia madagascariensis} feeding in coconut palm tree at night, Aye-aye Island, NE Madagascar

Roland Seitre / Variegated Squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) on coconut. Refuge Las Pumas, Bagaces, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Sue Flood / Copra drying on Puka Puka. This is the dried meat, or kernel, of the coconut. Coconut oil extracted from it has made copra an important agricultural commodity for many coconut producing countries. Puk...

Ernie Janes / Harvested Coconuts (Cocos nucifera) with hand tool, Thailand

Ernie Janes / Tapioca crop grown in central Thailand

Juergen Freund / Young boys carry husked coconuts home, walking several kilometers, Moluccas Islands, Indonesia, November 2009.

Juergen Freund / Man smoking and drying copra, the meat of the coconut, in Enuk Village. Kavieng, Papua New Guinea, June 2010.

Juergen Freund / Coconut crab (Birgus latro) in a burrow in the forest of Tetepare Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands, Melanesia, July 2010 . NOT AVAILABLE FOR MAGAZINE USE IN GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES UNTI...

Jurgen Freund / Coconut octopus or the veined octopus (Octopus marginatus) ready to flee from its coconut shell home. Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Charlie Summers / Robber Crab (Birgus latro) with two coconuts, and beginning to open the first, Christmas Island, Australia in the Indian Ocean

Piper Mackay / Kuna Indian women husking coconuts on the island of Wichub-Wala, San Blas islands, Panama, November 2008

Piper Mackay / Kuna Indian women husking coconuts on the island of Wichub-Wala, San Blas islands, Panama, November 2008

Piper Mackay / Kuna Indian women husking coconuts on the island of Wichub-Wala, San Blas islands, Panama, November 2008

Martin Gabriel / Coconuts on Coconut plam tree (Cocos nucifera) Osa Peninsula, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Martin Gabriel / Coconuts on Coconut palm tree (Cocos nucifera), Osa Peninsula, Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica

Michele Westmorland / Man demonstrating coconut meat harvesting for tourists, Rano Island, Vanuatu May 2008

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Coconuts on palm (Cocos nucifera), Bangandaram, India

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Coconuts on palm (Cocos nucifera), Bangandaram, India

Philippe Clement / Coconuts on Coconut palm tree {Cocos nucifera}, Manuel Antonio NP, Costa Rica

Philippe Clement / Coconuts on Coconut palm tree {Cocos nucifera}, Manuel Antonio NP, Costa Rica

Philippe Clement / Coconuts on Coconut palm tree {Cocos nucifera}, Manuel Antonio NP, Costa Rica

Philippe Clement / Coconut washed ashore on beach of Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica

Philippe Clement / Coconut washed ashore on beach of Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa rica

Philippe Clement / Coconut washed ashore on beach of Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) largest terrestrial invertebrate capable of stripping the husk off and opening coconuts, they have also been seen cracking the extremely hard shells of macadamia nuts, Solo...

Piotr Naskrecki / Coconut Crab (Birgus latro) the largest terrestrial invertebrate capable of stripping the husk off and opening coconuts, they have also been seen cracking the extremely hard shells of macadamia nuts,...

John Downer / Pigtail macaque {Macaca nemestrina} with trainer Ko Samui, trained to collect coconuts from top of tree, Thailand

Rolf Nussbaumer / Native Jamaican selling Coconuts and Ackee {Blighia sapida} at Street Market, Hope Bay, Jamaica.

Solvin Zankl / Celebes / Black / Sulawesi crested macaque / Black ape {Macaca nigra} collecting coconuts in palm tree. Sulawesi,

GEORGETTE DOUWMA / Coconut fruits on palm tree {Cocos nucifera} Tonga

Gavin Hellier / Coconut Plantation, La Digue Island, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

Gavin Hellier / Pile of harvested (fallen) coconuts, Mahe Island, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

John Downer / Transporting coconuts on water, Philippines

David Fleetham / Coconut crab (Birgus latro) on coconut plant, Aitutaki Atoll, Cook Islands.

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) men sorting coconuts on ground picked by trained captive Macaques, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) owner with young monkey who is being trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive animal trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) master keeps his trained Macaque on a leash when he picks coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive animal trained to pick coconuts is pushed along in a wheelbarrow by its owner, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) likes to breathe the cigarette smoke and eat the tobacco of its owner and is trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) likes to breathe the cigarette smoke and eat the tobacco of its owner and is trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) likes to breathe the cigarette smoke and eat the tobacco of its owner and is trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) captive animal held by its owner, trained to pick coconuts, Malaysia

Barry Bland / A local man climbing a palm tree to collect coconuts, Caribbean.

Onne van der Wal / The chief of Jenitovara village in the Vanuatu islands poses with his family. Pacific Islands.

Roberto Rinaldi / Baju / sea gypsy boy sitting on wood with coconuts tied on, Togian Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Roberto Rinaldi / Coconut crab / Robber crab (Birgus latro), the largest terrestrial arthropod on earth, Sulawesi, Indonesia. ^^^Very powerful with vastly strong pincers, it climbs trees and eat coconuts. Considered a...

Onne van der Wal / Coco de mer (Lodoicea maldivica) nuts on beach, Seychelles.

Roberto Rinaldi / Traditional local Palau food: cooked crabs, fish, different types of bananas, pineaple, papaya, tapioca, soursop, taro, sweet potatoes, coconuts and more.

David Fleetham / Coconut crab (Birgus latro) climbing on the base of a Coconut tree (Cocos nucifera), Aitutaki, Cook Islands, South Pacific.

Fernando Faciole / Panamanian white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator) juvenile, feeding on part of coconut. Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.

David Fleetham / Coral reef with Threadfin anthias (Pseudanthias huchtii) shoal with Bluegreen chromis (Chromis viridis) amongst them, under shallow sea with a coconut tree forest in background, Philippines, Pacific...

David Fleetham / A sprouting coconut floating in the sea close to the shore, Yap, Micronesia, Pacific Ocean.

Roland Seitre / Variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) feeding from coconut, Refuge Las Pumas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Roland Seitre / Variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) feeding from coconut, Refuge Las Pumas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Nigel Cattlin / Rhinocerus beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) pupa of a serious pest of coconut palms (Cocos nucifera), Mindanao, Philippines, February

Nigel Cattlin / Rhinocerus beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) pupa of a serious pest of coconut palms (Cocos nucifera), Mindanao, Philippines, February