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Are food store locations of scrub jays and squirrels precisely remembered?
There's a nice explanation of the behaviours of squirrels at LiveScience.com. Basically it boils down to that they can remember about 95% of the hoards, but they will use deception on the burying ...
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Are food store locations of scrub jays and squirrels precisely remembered?
This page says that it's estimated that squirrels forget between 25 and 75% of their stock (or don't need them). However, this is important for the forest: The forgotten nuts become seeds and start ...
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