Why/how are pigs used to find truffles? Do they have a natural affinity for them?
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No one is bringing up the actual reason:
We use female pigs, sows, for truffle hunting. When sows are in heat, they seek androstenal, which is a sex pheromone excreted bh male pigs.
Truffles happen to have this exact pheromone.
So we just use horny pigs to find dirt fungus to put on our very expensive food.
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