Do any species apart from humans eat mushrooms or other fungi?
You never see “mushrooms” listed under the habitual diets of animals, and I’ve never seen a half-eaten mushroom. · I have seen many half-eaten mushrooms in sheep-bitten grass. It is harder to find ones that haven’t been started. Lucy Wallis, Merriott, Somerset · Rabbits eat fungi. When I was a child, my father, who was an amateur mycologist, told me that there was only one cure if you had eaten either Amanita muscaria or Amanita phalloides, both poisonous fungi. It was to eat eight rabbits’ brains and eight rabbits’ stomachs – raw, apparently, because rabbits can eat these deadly fungi with no ill effect. Whether or not this is true I don’t know, not being brave enough to experiment. Sarah Braun, Bristol · I have seen a squirrel in the New Forest munching a field mushroom, and boletus mushrooms frequently have mouse-sized teeth marks in them. Paul Gooddy, Southampton · After wrestling mushrooms away from my Siamese cat, I can name one animal that eats them. I can’t say they’re the cat’
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