This was filmed in Monteverde, Costa Rica and I think it gives us the best impression of what it's like to climb a giant strangler fig.

Bartholomew the Strangler .

Ah, it's Bartholomew the Strangler .

And the strangler says very matter of factly,

Fig leaf.

You're quite a good chicken strangler, as I recall.

What the fig? !

donkey hooves and fig wine.

You want a Fig Newton?

You narrow minded strangler, the day is coming when we will ride you.

Hmm. Bartholomew the Strangler . That sounds a juicy one. Have you seen it?

By the fig and the olive

By the fig , by the olive ,

By the fig , and the olive ,

By the fig and the olive .

By the fig and the olive

By the fig and the olive ,

By the fig and the olive !

By the Fig and the Olive ,

Nothing interesting about a fig leaf.

So this is actually a piece of fig.

I swear by the fig and the olive ,

So this is actually a piece of fig.

But as we've been in that jungle, this human free nature, we realized there were strangler ficuses.

I CALL TO witness the Fig and the Olive ,

By oath of the fig and of the olive ,

'Did you say pig, or fig?' said the Cat.

That is the fig leaf with which it covers itself.

We shall plant your fig tree in the new land.

There were some trees and bushes there, fig and olive trees.

The trees said to the fig tree, 'Come and reign over us.'

He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

And the strangler says very matter of factly, Oh no. If I'd felt the distress, I could not have done it.

This is a man who terrorized the very vicinity we're in many years ago. He was known as the Santa Cruz strangler.

He told them a parable. See the fig tree, and all the trees.

And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

And he spake to them a parable Behold the fig tree, and all the trees

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, Let there be no fruit from you forever! Immediately the fig tree withered away.

The resumption of the peace process with the Palestinian Authority can be only a fig leaf.

He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country.

When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, How did the fig tree immediately wither away?

Peter, remembering, said to him, Rabbi, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered away.

He smote their vines also and their fig trees and brake the trees of their coasts.

As at 31 December 2004, the total number of periodic benefits is 53,879 (see fig. 12)

As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away from the roots.