To disperse their spores, truffles rely on animals eating other animals
Truffles, which come in many guises, not just those regarded as delicacies by humans, are the fruiting bodies of fungi—the underground equivalents of mushrooms. Unlike mushrooms, however, they cannot shed their spores into the air, to be scattered by the wind. Instead, they rely on being eaten and the spores they contain (pictured) then being deposited elsewhere once they have passed through the gut of the diner.
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