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BIRDS - "You hide it—I'll find it!"—Great tit has a bird's eye view when looking for dinner

Birds that hoard food for a rainy day better be sure that there are no great tits around to spy on where they hide their reserve of seeds and nuts. So says Anders Brodin and Utku Urhan of the University of Lund in Sweden, who found that great tits can remember the position of such hideaways up to 24 hours after seeing it cached. Interestingly, even though great tits share this mental ability with well-known hoarders such as crows and jays, they d ...

http://phys.org/news/2014-02-itill-itgreat-tit-bird-eye.htm

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