Squirrel hunting truffles

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Uploaded by on Dec 29, 2009

Here is a very cool video, and perhaps one of a kind. David Springbett, B.C. film maker, filmed me in the Olympic National Park, and suddenly I spied a squirrel digging behind him.
I told him to STOP and film that squirrel - don't ask questions, just do so NOW.

He did, and may have the only wild footage in the past two decades -- or ever -- of a squirrel digging up truffle !

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  • I live in the Sierra Nevada, and a few years ago I started to notice that squirrels, especially chipmunks, would leave nibbled-on truffles on top of logs and stumps. I'm not sure if this is to cure them, or simply because they're too big of a meal to eat at one sitting. Probably the latter. Regardless, now that I have my search image down, I see them fairly regularly. They smell absolutely divine, but I never have the heart to steal them.

  • Nice Spyderco

  • @USSBN734 It is not the same variety- but they taste similar but you will not get that kind of money for them

  • Now that is cool! If you could get a baby squirrel and train him to do this for you, you'd have a cool pet and a going concern. Are these the same kind of truffles you find in Europe? As in hundreds of dollars per pound? I have always wanted to taste one.

  • This is actually the way I first found truffles years ago. I knew the smell of them and learned that squirrels were the primary distributor of their spores. I first found truffles while at Evergreen State College working for and living on a nearby property down on Mud Bay and would find the squirrel's holes. After that every walk in the woods during the fall would produce enough for a meal or two.

  • Smart little guy ;)

  • Bravo Squirrel !!!!

  • Interesting, Thanks for sharing.

    - Ashley Cawley.

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