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People are always underestimating plants especially trees, you know they see them as these static things on the landscape that pump out some oxygen for breathing, but trees have their own interesting and exciting lives, it just takes place on a different time scale. To a tree a forest is a highly competitive and overcrowded place, especially in a rainforest where trees grow so close together they form a thick canopy that blocks most light from penetrating to the forest floor, where most seedling trees start out. Shaded and stuck in the dark, only a lucky few will grow into Giants, relying on old trees falling over and forming a light gap, where a young tree has to fight for its spot in the rainforest skyline. All this hard competition can drive a tree to resort to violence to try and steal a spot in the canopy, and for a few plants in the genus Ficus, that is exactly what happens...

Sources
Bronstein, Judith L.; Hossaert-McKey, Martine (1995). "Hurricane Andrew and a Florida Fig Pollination Mutualism: Resilience of an Obligate Interaction". Biotropica. 27 (3): 373–381. doi:10.2307/2388922. JSTOR 2388922.
Putz, Francis E.; N. Michele Holbrook (1989). "Strangler Fig Rooting Habits and Nutrient Relations in the Llanos of Venezuela". American Journal of Botany. 76 (6): 781–788. doi:10.2307/2444534. JSTOR 2444534.

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