Mushrooms?

Are they unaffected by the toxins?

 

Nature has evolved to allow many species to eat things poisonous to us, birds can eat the berries from a Yew tree for example, we would be extremely poorly if we tried it.

 

I know. Slugs I'm not surprised about. They're nothing but mobile bogies. They're designed to be disgusting. But rabbits I thought had digestive tracts and nervous systems not entirely disimilar to us.

 

As a gardener you must know Rabbits will absolutely anything we don't want them to eat..................................

 

Yew leaves are posinous as are the seeds, but I believe the flesh around the seed is safe; not going to recommend.
There is quite a lot of variation among mammals as to what's toxic and what isn't. This why rats and miceare not necessarily good test animals for new drugs and other chemicals and hence the need for some things to be tried in primates and in people.
Something regularly munches my Aconitum species, suspect slugs.

 

I used to often find regurgitated yew seeds when walking in the park.
Judging by the size of the amount I always thought it was foxes who ate the seeds with the red arils attached and then brought up the poisonous part afterwards.
I could be wrong, perhaps it was rabbits, but some kind of animal was doing it, probably mountain lions or hummingbirds if i look on the internet.

 

As others have said here Clueless, rabbits are a real possibility. I've seen chunks eaten out of the fungi here but not by rabbits. I have the occasional hare in the garden though.

 

Hare today, gone tomorrow..?

 

"Bugs Funny"

 

As a small kid, I clearly remember tucking into Yew berries from the Yew in the local graveyard. I must have instinctivly known not to eat the seed, just the aril, as I'm still here.
I still do when I see them.