Endangered northern bettongs aren’t picky truffle eaters
The marsupials’ varied diet could help safeguard some of Australia’s fungi and forests
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FUNGUS LOVER The northern bettong (shown) helps create the wide variety of truffle-producing fungi found in Australia by eating the fungi and spreading their spores in its scat, a new study suggests.
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