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Pigs are well known as an essential item in hunting for black truffles, Tuber melanosporum, in the woods of Italy or France. But why? It is simply because a ripe truffles smells like male pig pheromones which means that the art to getting a truffle is stopping the excited pig from demolishing it.

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