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ALT Fig. 10. Illustration representing the interactions between mammals, truffles and their ectomycorrhizal host plants. A. The left side of the illustration shows a North American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) caching Elaphomyces truffles in an abandoned bird nest in a fir tree. B. In the right side of the illustration a swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) can be seen digging for Mesophellia truffles at the base of an associated eucalypt tree. The wallaby also disperses fungal spores of several taxa in its scats. Illustration © PameFagus (Pamela Ciudad Martin).

ALT Fig. 3. A selection of mycophagous mammals with fungal fruiting bodies. A. Mount Graham red squirrel with a partially dried fungus in its mouth on Mount Graham in Arizona, USA. B. In northwestern Cambodia, a Germain’s langur holds a mushroom that it is eating. C. A northern bettong eats an unidentified truffle in northern Queensland, Australia. D. A brown Antechinus pauses near the fruiting body of a sequestrate species of Descolea (lower right corner of image) in eastern New South Wales, Australia. Image A © Eirini Pajak. Image B © Brenda de Groot. Image C © Stephanie Todd. Image D © Stephen Mahony.