Great tit can remember other birds' food hideaways for up to 24 hours

Date:

February 12, 2014

Source:

Springer Science+Business Media

Summary:

Birds that hoard food for a rainy day better be sure that there are no great tits around to spy on where they hide their reserve of seeds and nuts. Biologists found that great tits can remember the position of such hideaways up to 24 hours after seeing it cached. Interestingly, even though great tits share this mental ability with well-known hoarders such as crows and jays, they do not store up food themselves.

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