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

Jurgen Freund / Timelapse of a Strangler fig (Ficus virens) at night lit by the moon, known as the Curtain Fig Tree, this individual is over 500 years old, Atherton Tablelands, Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Queens...

Jurgen Freund / Tracking timelapse looking upwards into the hollow left by a Strangler fig (Ficus), Lake Barrine, Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, North Queensland, Australia.

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

Paul Williams / Spectral tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) returning to sleep in fig tree after a night hunting, Tangkoko, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Jabruson / Young Chimpanzee in fruiting fig tree (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Tongo, Virunga National Park, Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jurgen Freund,Jurgen Freund / Spectral Tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) feeding on preying mantis in strangler fig tree, Tangkoko National Park, North Sulawesi, Indonesia

Jack Dykinga / Cenote Noh-Moson, is ringed with ficus trees with ten meter long roots reaching toward the blue water below, state of Yucatan, Mexico

Jack Dykinga / Woman swimming in Cenote Noh-Moson with Ficus tree roots, ten meters long, reaching toward the blue wate,r Yucatan, Mexico. No release available.

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

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...

Tim Laman / Young boy aged 7 (model released) playing / climbing on Strangler fig (Ficus destruens) roots growing, tropical rainforest, Borneo, Malaysia

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 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

Pete Oxford / Buttress roots of Ficus tree, Yasuni NP, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador

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

Pete Oxford / Buttress roots of Ficus tree, Yasuni NP, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador, South America

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

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

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

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

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Fig tree (Figus johannis) with fruit, As Sayh, Musandam, Oman, March

Jurgen Freund / White fig (Ficus virens) tree known as Curtain fig with curtain of aerial roots dropping 15m from trunk of tilting host tree. Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia.

Jurgen Freund / White fig (Ficus virens) tree known as Cathedral Fig aged 500 years, view from below of aerial roots looking towards canopy. Danbulla National Park and State Forest, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, A...

Nick Garbutt / Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) in day-time roost tree (Ficus sp.). Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Nick Garbutt / RF - Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) in day-time roost tree (Ficus sp.). Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)

Nick Garbutt / Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) in day-time roost tree (Ficus sp.). Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Nick Garbutt / Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) in day-time roost tree (Ficus sp.). Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Nick Garbutt / Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) in day-time roost tree (Ficus sp.). Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Nick Garbutt / Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) in day-time roost tree (Ficus sp.). Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Nick Garbutt / Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) in day-time roost tree (Ficus sp.). Tangkoko National Park, Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Lorraine Bennery / Roots of Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) descending into limestone sink-hole, Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, Madagascar.

Steven David Miller / Cluster fig tree (Ficus racemosa) with abundance of fruit, provides food for birds. Kununurra, The Kimberley, Western Australia.

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.

Heather Angel / Cluster-fig tree (Ficus racemosa) fruits China growing from trunk. Eaten by squirrels, monkeys and birds. Flowers are pollinated by minute wasps. Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China.

Juan Manuel Borrero / Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla) roots and tree. Cultivated in Antonio Borges Gardens, Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal.