Alex Braczkowski

And then it's really a comedy show because seeing a cat that weighs 300 or 350 pounds trying to get down and then usually falling out of a tree is pretty comical.

So in Queen Elizabeth National Park on the Congolese border, it seems to be mainly sort of three species.

It's the ficus, ficus sycamorus, which is the river fig, sort of big, thick branch tree with sort of splayed out branches.

Yeah.

And that's usually where you get the most incredible pictures.

But then there's this crazy, almost cactus-like euphorbia, which is actually one of the most poisonous species on continental Africa called euphorbia ingens.

They also climb that weirdly because they kind of get stuck in the branches.

And then there's also one or two acacias that they climb.

Yeah.

Yeah, so there's not really spikes per se.

They're almost like little tiny at some points is like spines, but they're not particularly pronounced.

It's really the milky latex.

So if you happen to pierce or break the branches of that tree,

It's that latex that is incredibly poisonous.

It's actually used in some places as a fish poison, yeah.

It doesn't seem to.

It doesn't seem to because they don't seem to really pierce into the sort of heartwood of the tree.

They just seem to sort of get up and then they just sort of position themselves, wedge themselves in between the branches.

Oh, yeah.

Sometimes you can see eight, nine, ten lions in one of these euphorbias, which is just crazy.