Bandicoots

Much hand-wringing about bandicoots eating truffles before they’re harvested. It’s costing Australian truffles farmers millions of dollars because the bandicoots are so efficient at finding the truffles. Seems like truffles are catnip to these marsupials.

Much effort by academics in training bandicoots not to like truffles. Lol. What, are they going to send all the bandicoots a notice in the mail to go to the training program?

Then it finishes with this: “The truffles are harvested in winter with the help of dogs to sniff them out.”

Why not just use the bandicoots instead of the dogs? A two-fer, we call that.

If it works out then maybe we can also start racing the bandicoots. Think of the excitement.