Tiny Mountain Chickadees Show Extraordinary Memory Skills

For mountain chickadees, remembering where food is hidden can be essential for surviving winter. These small birds can track enormous numbers of seed caches, even when snow covers the landscape. Scientists studying wild mountain chickadees in California’s Sierra Nevada report that some birds can keep track of as many as 100,000 individual seed caches. A […]

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