Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) fruit germinating on tropical beach, Keeling Islands, Australia

Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera) fruit germinating on tropical beach, Keeling Islands, Australia

John Shaw / Poplar (Populus sp.) tree plantation, hybrid species, in autumn, Boardman Tree Farm, near Irrigon, Oregon, USA. October.

Ingo Arndt / White-handed gibbon {Hylobates lar} feeding in {Ficus sp} tree Khao Yai NP Thailand

Ingo Arndt / Slug moth caterpillar mimics seed pod {Perola sp} Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Central America

Cyril Ruoso / Fruit of a Dipterocarp tree (Dipterocarpaceae) seed falling to the ground, Way Kambas National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Ammonite / Black-handed / Geoffroy's spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) feeding on figs, Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica.

Jabruson Motion / THIS VIDEO CLIP WILL BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW ONLINE SOON. TO VIEW NOW, PLEASE CONTACT US. - Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) silverback 'Makumba' eating African breadfruit (Treculia afri...

Angelo Gandolfi / Toco Toucan (Ramphastos toco) beak open with tongue visible while feeding on mango, Brazil

Jack Dykinga / Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) in tropical rainforest canopy with beech almond fruit. Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Tim Laman / Black Sicklebill Bird of Paradise (Epimachus fastuosus) male feeding on fruits of Shefflera tree. New Guinea

Anup Shah / Western chimpanzees female 'Jire' aged 52 and her daughter 'Joya' aged 6 years and son 'Jeje' aged 13 years feeding on palm oil fruits stored by villagers, Bossou Forest, Mont Nimba, Guinea. December...

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies or bubs wrapped in cloth in the nursery at Tolga Bat Hospital, North Queensland, Australia, November 2012

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies or bubs wrapped in cloth and teats in mouths ready for feeding in the nursery at Tolga Bat Hospital, North Queensland, Australia, November 2012

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) casualty of paralytic tick (Ixodes holocyclus) bite being cared for on site of colony by Jenny Mclean, North Queensland, Australia, November 2012

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) sub-adult female 'Mosoko' aged 8 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 201...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Tembo' aged 4 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. November 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit while holding a piece of rotting wood which he will eat later, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit while holding a piece of rotting wood which he will eat later, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit while holding a piece of rotting wood which he will eat later, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years sitting on the forest floor feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central Afri...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) female 'Mopambi' feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years feeding on fruit with his son 'Tembo' aged 4 years sitting in the background, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangh...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile female 'Bokata' aged 6 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged 32 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. De...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) sub-adult female 'Mosoko' aged 8 years sitting on a fallen tree feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central Afric...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) sub-adult female 'Mosoko' aged 8 years sitting on a fallen tree feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central Afric...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years sitting on the forest floor feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central Afri...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) dominant male silverback 'Makumba' aged about 32 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republ...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) sub-adult female 'Mosoko' aged 8 years sitting on a fallen tree feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central Afric...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) juvenile male 'Mobangi' aged 5 years feeding on fruit while sitting on the forest floor, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Centra...

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) infant 'Sopo' aged 18 months feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Anup Shah / Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) female 'Mopambi' feeding on fruit, Bai Hokou, Dzanga Sangha Special Dense Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. December 2011.

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies swaddled up in cloth ready to sleep, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. January 2008.

Juergen Freund / Crate of Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies just arrived by plane from Brisbane after months of care, ready to be returned to the Tolga Bat Hospital for release back to the wild, A...

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying foxes (Pteropus conspicillatus) inside enclosure, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. January 2008.

Juergen Freund / Spectacled flying fox (Pteropus conspicillatus) babies swaddled in cloth ready to sleep, Tolga Bat Hospital, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia. January 2008.

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...

Juergen Freund / Fruit bats (Megachiroptera) flying out from the island where they roost during the day. Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia, February 2010

Juergen Freund / Floating fruit of a Cannonball mangrove (Xylocarpus granatum) which when opened has seeds like a natural puzzle. Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, September 2009

Jouan & Rius / Fruit and seed in tropical rainforest, Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia

Mark Bowler / Peruvian red uakari monkey (Cacajao calvus ucayalii) eating aguaje palm fruits (Mauritia flexuosa) Yavari River, Peru, vulnerable species, wild

Tim Laman / Female and young male Ribbon-tailed Astrapia (Astrapia mayeri) bird of paradise on Schefflera fruits, Southwestern slopes of Mt. Hage, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea.

Tim Laman / Magnificent Bird of Paradise (Cicinnurus magnificus) male perched with fruit on calling perch near his display court, Huon Peninsula, YUS Conservation Area, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Near-thr...

Tim Laman / Superb Bird of Paradise (Lophorina superba) male in rainforest canopy in the vicinity of the Tari Valley, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Tim Laman / Adult male Ribbon-tailed Astrapia (Astrapia mayeri) feeding on fruits of a Schefflera plant. Southwestern slopes of Mt. Hage, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea.

Tim Laman / Various seeds of rainforest trees regurgitated by Rufous-necked Hornbill (Aceros nipalensis). Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand.

Juergen Freund / Lychee tree {Litchi chinensis} protected from birds with nets, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia

Juergen Freund / Lychee plantation {Litchi chinensis} protected from birds with nets, Mareeba, Queensland, Australia

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Fruits of Munguba tree {Pseudobombax munguba} flooded forest, varzea, Brazil

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Collecting nuts of Assahi palm tree {Euterpe oleracea} Amazonas, Brazil

Neil Lucas / Female Orang Utan with Durian fruit, Sepilok, Borneo

Pete Oxford / Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella) stabilizes itself with its prehensile tail while using a heavy rock hammer to crack open palm nuts placed in small pits in the anvil rock surface, Cerrado habitat, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella) stabilizes itself with its prehensile tail while using a heavy rock hammer to crack open palm nuts placed in small pits in the anvil rock surface, Cerrado habitat, Brazil

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Emerald Toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus) eating Passion Fower (Passiflora sp) fruit at nest cavity, cloud forest, Costa Rica

Pete Oxford / Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella) pair using rock and anvil to crack open Piassava Palm (Attalea funifera) nuts, Cerrado habitat, Piaui State, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella) using a rock to crack open a Piassava Palm (Attalea funifera) nut, Cerrado habitat, Piaui State, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Brown Capuchin (Cebus apella) using a rock to crack open a Piassava Palm (Attalea funifera) nut, Cerrado habitat, Piaui State, Brazil

Pete Oxford / Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) cracking open a Piassava Palm (Attalea funifera) nut to drink the milk, Brazil

RICHARD KIRBY / Vogelkop gardener bowerbird male tending bower to attract mate Irian Jaya / West Papua, Western New Guinea

Nick Gordon / Paca {Agouti paca} eating fallen fruit, Amazonia, Brazil, South America

David Noton / Coconut on beach at Pigeon Point, Tobago

Pete Oxford / Saddleback tamarin {Saguinus fuscicollis} feeding on Combretum assimile tree flowers/fruit, Madre de Dios rainforest, Peru, South America

Pete Oxford / Monk parakeet {Myiopsitta monachus} feeding on mango Pantanal, Brazil

Anup Shah / Ousted alpha male Chimpanzee 'Freud' feeding on mangoes, {Pan troglodytes schweinfurtheii} Kasekela community, Gombe NP, Tanzania. 2002

Elio Della Ferrera / Veiled fungus {Phallus sp} and {Michelia sp} fruit on leaf litter in tropical wet evergreen forest, Sri Lanka

Pete Oxford / Passon fruit flower and fruit forming {Passiflora sp} Madre de Dios, Peru

Nick Gordon / Yellow ridged toucan eating acai palm fruit. Amazonia, Brazil South America

Charlie Summers / East African Highland bananas (Musa acuminata) including the flower that has not yet opened. Kigongoni Lodge, Arusha, Tanzania.

Tim Laman / Fruit (Baccaurea sp.) Batang Toru Forest, Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Project, North Sumatran Province, Indonesia

Heather Angel / Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia chinensis) fruit, partially eaten by squirrel. Larger seeds than cultivated kiwi bred from the wild species. Tangjiahe National Nature Rerserve, Sichuan Province, China.

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

Yashpal Rathore / Bull with bananas and other decorations on head dress, ready to walk over burning hay to celebrate the Hindu festival Makar Sankranti. Karnataka, India, January 2019.

David Pattyn / Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan (Andigena laminirostris) feeding on fruit, Bellavista private reserve, Mindo cloud forest, Pichincha, Ecuador, July

Eric Baccega / African elephant (Loxodonta africana) walking through Kafunta Lodge main area to feed on wild mango fruit, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia

Duncan Murrell / Indigenous Palawano man carrying pineapples in a traditional pandan basket, South Palawan, the Philippines. August 2016

Duncan Murrell / Indigenous Palawano man carrying pineapples in a traditional pandan basket, South Palawan, the Philippines. August 2016

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

Matthew Maran / Bananas for sale in supermarket.

Matthew Maran / Smiling face made from parsley, strawberries, shallots and a banana.

Andrew Walmsley / Oil palm fruit transported by boat. North Sumatra, September 2018.

Claudio Contreras / Central American Spider Monkey (Ateles geoffroyi) with fruit in mouth, Dzibanche, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, August

Konrad Wothe / Passion flower (Passiflora mixta) tropical rainforest, northern Ecuador.

Kirkendall-Spring / Coconut trees (Cocos nucifera), Hawaii.

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

Lucas Bustamante / Eyelash palm pitviper (Bothriechis schlegelii) curled round berries on twig, Canande, Esmeraldas, Ecuador.

Andrew Walmsley / Tapanuli Orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) mother with baby feeding on fruit, Batang Toru, North Sumatra, Indonesia. This is a newly identified species of orangutan, limited to the Batang Toru forests i...

Five Films / Group of Common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) eating bananas at a feeding station, Reserva Ecologica de Guapiacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

John Cancalosi / Cacao (Theobroma cacao) young fruits. Used to make chocolate, occurs in tropical regions of Central and South America.

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