
Truffles
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
Are Fungi Just Plants?
Truffles are animals that are called fungivores. They eat fungus and then truffles spread by getting eaten and then getting pooped out. That's the deal. What a miracle that all this exists. It shouldn't exist. There shouldn't be all these working pieces that work together. Yeah, it's really shocking. And yet to play devil's advocate, there are a lot of animals doing weird things and we still group them in as animals. True. Maybe plants should just be a bigger category. I'm going to advocate for just calling them plants. Why can't fungi just be weird plants? Can just be like a corporate merger or something. Like plants have acquired
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