The air is thick and humid in the sub-tropical savannah of the Okavango Delta in Northern Botswana. On the edge of the waterways in the Selinda Reserve, grows one of Africa’s more exotic trees, a mighty Sausage Tree. For generations local healers in Africa have used sausage trees to help young men enhance their manhood, and young women to grow bigger breasts.

This year Botswana is facing the worst drought in more than thirty years… the Sausage Tree’s bark is grey and flaky, and it branches do not bear as much of the rough haired leaves as they would other years. Still, in summer the tree is well endowed indeed; its enormous sausage shaped fruit grows up to a meter long, and weighs up to ten kilograms. Occasionally, these falling projectiles can kill an antelope.

A family of tree squirrels scurries around the tree feasting on the enormous fruit. To stay close to this food source, they have moved into several of the crevices in the Sausage Tree’s trunk. Meyer’s Parrots also flock to the tree to indulge on the tree’s opulent gifts, while a Barred Owlet hunts amongst the tree’s foliage.

As winter approaches, the Sausage Tree’s fruit begin to fall. A young elephant bull emerges from the adjacent grasslands, and begins to pick at the fallen fruit. After his  meal, he leisurely strolls to Sausage Tree’s trunk and begins kneading his hindquarters against the flaky bark.