Why/how are pigs used to find truffles? Do they have a natural affinity for them?

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Why/how are pigs used to find truffles? Do they have a natural affinity for them?

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Pigs have great sense of smell and likes to dig out food from the ground to eat. So in the past, people would train pigs to sniff out truffles and not eat it, just lead the hunter to it. But, people don’t train pigs for truffle hunting anymore, they use dogs instead which are more reliable.