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December 4, 2015
How a 5-Ounce Bird Stores 10,000 Maps in Its Head
They’re accurate, detailed, and instantly retrievable. It’s been burying seeds since August. It’s hidden so many (one study says almost 100,000 seeds) in the forest, meadows, and tree nooks that it can now fly up, look down, and see little x’s marking those spots—here, here, not there, but here—and do this for maybe a couple of miles around. It will remember these x’s for the next nine months. : Curiously Krulwich
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 4, 2015 8:58 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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And we, poor saps, fill our heads with 10,000 craps within which we dip when new brain cells are needed.
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at December 5, 2015 3:32 PM
Like many common birds that cache seeds, it will retrieve the seeds in order of highest to lowest quality. Other species specializes in robbing the caches.
Posted by: twolaneflash at December 5, 2015 4:12 PM
Other species specialize in robbing the caches...like Democrats.
fixed it.
Posted by: twolaneflash at December 6, 2015 8:17 AM