Did You Know? Fun Facts About Biscuit the Binturong!Here are some wild and wonderful facts about our favorite tree-dwelling fuzzball, Biscuit! 1.Popcorn Perfume? Biscuit smells like buttery popcorn – seriously! That’s thanks to a special compound in his scent glands. It’s his way of marking territory in style!2. Tail with a TalentBiscuit has a prehensile tail – that means it works like a fifth limb! He uses it to grip branches while climbing through the rainforest like a furry little acrobat. 3.

THE STRANGLER FIG Perhaps the most famous hemiepiphyte is the towering strangler fig tree which starts life as Strangler Fig, Brazil 1999 a tiny seed in the canopy. The roots grow down to the forest floor where they take root and begin to take nutrients from the soil. Gradually the roots wrap around the host tree, widen, and slowly form a lattice-work that surrounds the host's trunk. The fig's crown grows foliage which soon overshadows the tree. Eventually, the host tree dies leaving the fig wit

Ta Som Temple is best known for the giant strangler fig growing over its eastern gate, where tree roots and stone merge into a dramatic natural arch. | Bong Yan