{"id":113349,"date":"2020-09-23T20:23:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T03:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-identify-new-species-of-crystal-encrusted-truffle-thanks-to-bonobos"},"modified":"2020-09-23T20:23:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T03:23:26","slug":"scientists-identify-new-species-of-crystal-encrusted-truffle-thanks-to-bonobos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/scientists-identify-new-species-of-crystal-encrusted-truffle-thanks-to-bonobos","title":{"rendered":"Scientists identify new species of crystal-encrusted truffle, thanks to bonobos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-identify-new-species-of-crystal-encrusted-truffle-thanks-to-bonobos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mushroom-munching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have introduced scientists to a new species of truffle.<\/p>\n<p>Commonly used by Congolese communities to bait traps for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/small+mammals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">small mammals<\/a>, Hysterangium <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bonobo\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bonobo<\/a> is also savored by bonobos, an endangered species of great ape. Scientists say the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/truffle\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">truffle<\/a> hints at vast reserves of undescribed fungal diversity in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruffles aren\u2019t just for gourmet chefs\u2014they\u2019re also for our closest relatives,\u201d said Matthew Smith, an associate professor in the University of Florida department of plant pathology and curator of the UF fungal herbarium. \u201cThere\u2019s so much to learn about this system, and we\u2019re just scratching the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mushroom-munching bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have introduced scientists to a new species of truffle. Commonly used by Congolese communities to bait traps for small mammals, Hysterangium bonobo is also savored by bonobos, an endangered species of great ape. Scientists say the truffle hints at vast reserves of undescribed fungal diversity in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}