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

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.