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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 128 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (24 children)

Fungi won’t trade if the tree is not giving enough nutrients. So while they don’t trade for profit they sure as hell aren’t engaging in charity.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 10 months ago (16 children)

Mutual aid, in other words.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So in dum dum terms the trees are keeping the fungus as a pet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

More like two people sharing resources to reproduce more effectively while having a gun pointed towards each other at all times

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