The Outside Story: Birds stash food, thwart thieves

Posted on November 1, 2012 |

• Vermont
• birds
• Nature
• Outside story

By Li Shen

We know that squirrels make the most of fall’s plenty by hoarding nuts for the winter, but the fact that birds also store, or cache, food goes largely unappreciated. Through clever observation and experiments, biologists have found that food caching (from the French cacher, “to hide”) has developed to a high art in some birds.

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