The acorns and bitternuts have been falling around in my yard and the squirrels and chipmunks have been busy hiding the treasures. The chipmunks with a full cheek, race down into their tunnels, but the squirrels are digging holes in the lawn to bury the nuts. And for a while, researchers felt the squirrels found their caches of food by smell, but new studies revealed that squirrels do use spatial memory to locate their stored food. This squirrel didn’t like being caught hiding his food stash.
Squirrel Stash
