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

Chien Lee / Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) carrying fig, Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) approaching figs to feed on, Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Cyril Ruoso / Fig tree (Ficus sp) in rainforest, Bukit Barisan National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Konrad Wothe / Strangler Fig Tree (Ficus virens) beside water in rainforest, Lake Eacham NP, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October 2010

Konrad Wothe / Looking up the roots of a Strangler / Curtain Fig Tree (Ficus virens) rainforest, Curtain Fig Tree NP, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, October

Pete Oxford / Buttress roots (Ficus sp.)in rainforest, Cocaya River, eastern Amazon, Ecuador

Tim Laman / Strangler Fig (Ficus sp.) that has killed its host tree long ago. The host has rotted away, leaving a hollow center. Lowland rainforest in Borneo. Gunung Palung National Park, Indonesia.

Jack Dykinga / Roots of Fig trees (Ficus sp) growing in the collapsed Cenote Oxpeejool (sink hole), near Tekax, Yucatan, Mexico. Afternoon light illuminates the elongated cavern on the right. October 2009

Jack Dykinga / Cenote Samula (sink hole) with elongated roots of a Fig tree (Ficus sp) from ground level descending to the subterranian tourquoise coloured water below. Rays of sulight pass through the hole to illum...

Neil Lucas / Strangler fig tree (Ficus sp) in Danham Valley, Sabah, Borneo, September 2008

Mark Bowler / Looking up the stilt roots of a Fig tree (Ficus sp), Botanical Gardens, Entebbe, Uganda, July 2006

Kim Taylor / Aerial root structure of Weeping Fig tree (Ficus benjamina). Asia

Elio Della Ferrera / Figs ripening on Fig tree {Ficus sp} Assam, North East India, Indian Subcontinent

Pete Oxford / Buttress roots of Fig tree, Ficus sp. Yasuni NP. Ecuador Amazonia

Pete Oxford / Tarantula (Theraphosidae) on buttress root of fig tree (Ficus sp.). Yasuni NP, Ecuador, Central America

Pete Oxford / Tarantula (Theraphosidae) on buttress root of fig tree (Ficus sp.). Yasuni NP, Ecuador

Mark Jones / Sulawesi Red-knobbed Hornbill (Aceros cassidix) breeding male in a fruiting Fig tree (Ficus forsteni) 32 meters above the ground in rainforest canopy, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, In...

Mark Jones / Sulawesi Red-knobbed Hornbill (Aceros cassidix) breeding male in fruiting Fig (Ficus forsteni), Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Pete Oxford / Buttress root of fig tree {Ficus sp} in rainforest Yasuni NP, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Buttress root of fig tree {Ficus sp} in rainforest Yasuni NP, Ecuador

David Tipling / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) growing up emergent tree in tropical rainforest. Nara, Makira Island, Solomon Islands.

David Tipling / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) growing up emergent tree in tropical rainforest. Nara, Makira Island, Solomon Islands.

Andy Rouse / Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris) walking past Banyan Ficus sp tree. Ranthambhore National Park, India.

Tim Laman / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) Batang Toru Forest, Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Project, North Sumatran Province, Indonesia.

Shane P. White / Small-leaved Fig (Ficus obliqua) trees along freshwater spring, Matevulu Blue Hole, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

Jen Guyton / Eastern tiger snake (Telescopus semiannulatus) on a strangler fig (Ficus sp.) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique.

Angelo Gandolfi / Fig tree (Ficus sp.) fisheye view with woman. Corcovado National Park UNESCO World Heritage Site, Osa peninsula, Costa Rica

Angelo Gandolfi / Fig tree (Ficus sp.) with buttress roots, Corcovado National Park, Osa peninsula, Costa Rica

Alex Hyde / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) Maliau Basin, Sabah, Borneo, May 2011.

Ingo Arndt / Strangler fig roots {Ficus sp} Monteverde NP, Costa Rica

Oriol Alamany / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) stems growing and merging into each other, Green Mountains, Lamington National Park, Rainforests of Australia UNESCO World Heritage Site, Queensland, Australia

Oriol Alamany / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) growing over Hoop Pine tree(Araucaria cunninghamii) in rainforest on Morans Falls Track, Green Mountains, Lamington National Park, Rainforests of Australia UNESCO World Herit...

Oriol Alamany / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) growing over Hoop Pine tree(Araucaria cunninghamii) with branches knotting round each other, Morans Falls Track, Green Mountains. Lamington National Park, Rainforests of Aust...

Thomas Marent / Fig (Ficus sp) tree with exposed stilt roots in flooded forest of the Amazon, Amacayacu National Park, Leticia, Colombia

Thomas Marent / Fig (Ficus sp) tree with exposed stilt roots in flooded forest of the Amazon, Amacayacu National Park, Leticia, Colombia

Tim Laman / Roots of the strangler fig (Ficus dubia) attached to Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.)

Jen Guyton / Olive baboon (Papio anubis) eating ripe fruit in a fig tree (Ficus sp.) outside of Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania.

Martin Willis / Double-eyed Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma) feeding on fruiting fig, Lake Eacham, Queensland, Australia

Alex Hyde / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) huge aerial roots, Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Alex Hyde / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) huge aerial roots, Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Alex Hyde / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) huge aerial roots, Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica, Digitally stitched panoramic image.

Alex Hyde / Fer-de-lance (Bothrops asper) juvenile camouflaged on the rainforest floor at the base of a Strangle fig (Ficus sp) Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica,

Chien Lee / Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) carrying fig, Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Lesser Short-nosed Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) approaching figs to feed on, Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Fruit Piercing Moth (Eudocima phalonia) group gathering on figs, Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia

Adrian Davies / Strangler fig (Ficus sp) on tree, Sabah, Borneo

Suzi Eszterhas / Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii) feeding on fig, Costa Rica

Bruno D'Amicis / Black crowned crane (Balearica pavonina) adult perched on large fig tree (Ficus sp.) at sunset, Jimba marshlands, Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve, Bahir Dar. Ethiopia. December 2013.

Bruno D'Amicis / Rural landscape with cultivated fields, isolated old fig trees (Ficus sp.) and dry stone walls. Bahir Dar, Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve. Ethiopia December 2013.

Cyril Ruoso / Fig trees (Ficus sp) in tropical rainforest, Bukit Barisan National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia.

Chien Lee / Clustertree (Ficus racemosa) figs, Malaysia

Thomas Marent / Fig (Ficus sp) tree, Manas National Park, Assam, India

Thomas Marent / Fig (Ficus sp) tree, Manas National Park, Assam, India

Thomas Marent / Fig (Ficus sp) tree with extensive aerial roots, Arusha National Park, Tanzania

Chien Lee / Fig (Ficus sp) with buttress roots, Tangkoko Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Vincent Grafhorst / Namaqua Fig (Ficus cordata) trees at cave entrance, Gcwihaba Caves, Botswana

Tim Laman / Lowland rainforest (Terre Firme forest) interior with a large fig tree (Ficus sp.) in the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Orellana Province, Ecuador, July.

Murray Cooper / Fig (Ficus sp) buttressed root, Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Murray Cooper / Fig (Ficus sp), Choco Rainforest, Ecuador

Tim Laman / A massive strangler fig (Ficus sp. ) in the lowland rainforest of Fergusson Island, Papua New Guinea.

Chien Lee / Fig (Ficus sp) buttress roots, Tangkoko Nature Reserve, Indonesia

Chien Lee / Fig (Ficus sp) buttress roots, Kibale National Reserve, Uganda

Martin Willis / Double-eyed Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma) male eating fruit of a Septic Fig (Ficus septica), Malanda, Queensland, Australia

Cyril Ruoso / Fig (Ficus sp) trees with roots spanning over rocks, Yakushima Island, Japan

Cyril Ruoso / Fig (Ficus sp) tree and its roots, Yakushima Island, Japan

Cyril Ruoso / Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) pair near Fig (Ficus sp) in the costal laurel forest of Yakushima Island, Japan

Cyril Ruoso / Fig (Ficus sp) tree with roots spanning over rock, Yakushima Island, Japan

Cyril Ruoso / Fig (Ficus sp) tree with roots spanning over rock, Yakushima Island, Japan

Cyril Ruoso / Eastern Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) male in fig tree, Gombe National Park, Tanzania

Cyril Ruoso / Fig (Ficus sp) tree, Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia

Cyril Ruoso / Fig (Ficus sp) tree, showing aerial roots which form minor trunks, Kuala Selangor National Reserve, Malaysia

Juergen Freund / Detail of the Curtain Fig Tree, a Strangler Fig Tree(Ficus virens) growing on fallen tree, Atherton Tableland, North Queensland, Australia

Juergen Freund / Detail of the Curtain Fig Tree, a Strangler Fig Tree(Ficus virens) growing on fallen tree, Atherton Tableland, North Queensland, Australia

Piotr Naskrecki / Fig (Ficus sp) tree strangling host tree, Suriname

Juan Manuel Borrero / Illustration of Fig tree (Ficus carica) with detail of fruit and leaves. Pencil and watercolor painting.

Jabruson / 'Ngoumou' strangler Fig tree (Ficus sp) wrapped around host tree, which it will eventually kill. The latex (Idjoro) is used for killing birds by local people, hunters roll the latex onto sticks which...

Jabruson / 'Ngoumou' strangler Fig tree (Ficus sp) wrapped around host tree, which it will eventually kill. The latex (Idjoro) is used for killing birds by local people, hunters roll the latex onto sticks which...

Christophe Courteau / Fruit of the Fig tree (Ficus mucoso) fed on by Chimpanzees in the Kibale Rain Forest, Uganda

Christian Ziegler / Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) foraging in crown of fig tree, Panama City, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Jamaican Fruit-eating Bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) flying over fruiting fig tree to find food, Panama City, Panama

Hiroya Minakuchi / Fig (Ficus sp) fruit, Malaysia

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Molemb-de-barbela ficus tree (Ficus cyclophylla) Tableland Atlantic Rainforest of Vale Natural Reserve, municipality of Linhares, Espírito Santo State, Eastern Brazil, January 2012.

Martin Willis / Double-eyed Fig-Parrot (Cyclopsitta diophthalma) male eating fruit from Fig (Ficus sp), Atherton Tableland, Queensland, Australia

Konrad Wothe / Common Fig (Ficus carica) fruiting, Europe

ZSSD / Fig (Ficus dammaropsis) leaf, native to New Guinea

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp) that has fallen opens a space that starts race between thousands of seedlings and saplings, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp) fruit, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp) root pattern on host tree, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Fig (Ficus sp), Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Christian Ziegler / Amate (Ficus obtusifolia) fruit, Barro Colorado Island, Panama

Kevin Schafer / Fig (Ficus sp) parasitizing host tree, Tompotike Peninsula, central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Pete Oxford / Pale-mandibled Aracari (Pteroglossus erythropygius) in fruiting fig tree, Mindo Cloud Forest, Ecuador

Kevin Schafer / Aerial roots of Curtain fig tree (Ficus virens) Curtain Fig National Park, Yungaburra area, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia, December

Luiz Claudio Marigo / Fig Tree (Ficus sp.) in tropical rainforest of Sierra Nevada de Santa marta Natural National park, near Minca village, municipality of Santa Marta, Magdalena Department, Caribbean Coast, Northern Colo...