this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Squirrels don’t remember where they hide their nuts.

They rely on heuristics to find them! (A fancy word that roughly means “it seems like something I’d do”)

When trying to find nuts, they look at a spot and think “that would make a good place to hide a nut” so they go looking for one there.

[–] LemmysMum 16 points 1 year ago

So it's likely that squirrel nut collection/distribution is unintentionally more socialist than we give them credit for.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[–] Maco1969 10 points 1 year ago

The amount of acorns produced by oak trees varies from year to year, every few years they produce far more than the squirrel population can eat meaning many acorns are lost and can propagate. It's called a mast year.