The only victims of these strangler figs are actually other trees, after a process that can take several decades. It all starts with a seemingly innocuous event: a seed germinating. The seeds of ...

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.” – Carl ...

They found 13 strangler fig species (319 individuals) widely colonized 67 host species. Among them, palm hosts accounted for ...