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Locals know Phillips as a bushman with survival skills that would have set him up for building shelters and foraging for food in the wilderness.

While on holiday she was fascinated by their foraging behaviour as they moved gracefully through the shallow, saline wetlands, filter-feeding for molluscs and crustaceans.

Dozens of animals rely on them to survive, from ladder-backed woodpeckers who nest in their trunks to desert night lizards who sleep and forage beneath their fallen boughs.

Admitting she had foraged wild mushrooms, as many locals in the area do, wouldn't have set off alarm bells.

Pointing to cell phone tracking data, the prosecution alleged that Erin Patterson went to both to forage for the lethal fungi.