Walking up the sidewalk I noticed a group of mushrooms that had not been there the day before. Taking a closer look I could see that it was already being devoured by a large slug so I went into the house for my trusty camera. But alas the slug, satiated I presume, had moved on. I did not bother to try and identify the remains of his meal but I did reflect on the fact that numerous animals can eat deadly poisonous (to humans) mushrooms with no ill affect. There have been instances of humans eating turtles that had previously dined on some deadly mushroom with the result being that even though the turtle had survived the poison, the poison was still viable and the human was stricken - second hand so to speak.
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