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They come from a doum palm or gingerbread tree, known in the area as "mikwamo".

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

They can base themselves out of one of Saruni Rhino’s three thatch-roofed accommodations, all of which are hidden among towering doum palms.

From Seattle Times • May 5, 2022

The palm's straight trunk shot up twenty cubits above the roof's level, and, after the manner of the date palm's growth, bore no branches, such as the doum palm has.

From Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East by Bamford, Mary E. (Mary Ellen)

The desert, on the border of the river hereabouts, abounds with doum trees, which are inhabited by great numbers of monkeys.

From A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy by English, George Bethune

Timokles found no difficulty in descending with the doum palms' help, and he reflected that perhaps food for the leopard was often brought up this way, and thrown to the creature through the roof's holes.

From Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East by Bamford, Mary E. (Mary Ellen)