Tag: chickadee
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‘The poster child for memory’: Mountain chickadees can remember tens of thousands of food caches, new CU study finds
Although their brain is just slightly bigger than a pea, chickadees have quite the memory. A recently released study from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Nevada found that this little mountain bird has an incredible spatial memory — discovering nearly 100 genes associated with the chickadee’s ability to recall the locations…