I was watching a squirrel scurry from place to place beneath the trees yesterday. Since he neither picked anything up in his paws nor put anything down, I figured he was taking inventory - making sure he remembered all of his hiding spots.
As I child, I accepted without question that a squirrel was able to commit all of his food stashes to memory.
As an adult I still accept a squirrel's abilities, but no longer without question. Because now that I have trouble remembering where I left my eyeglasses mere minutes after I set them down, I want to know how it is a squirrel can fund nuts weeks and months after burying them.
Ask me what I had for lunch last Wednesday, and the best answer I would be able to provide would be ... food. Yet a squirrel can apparently find that particularly double acorn that was buried twelve Wednesdays ago.
How do the squirrels do it? I really want to know because.....
Oh dear. I've forgotten what I was going to say.
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