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Hoarding (animal behaviour) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
;Long-term or short-term hoarding Hoarding is done either on a long-term basis – cached on a seasonal cycle, with food to be consumed months down the line – or on a short term basis, in which case the...
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Hoarding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hoarding is a general term for the accumulation of food or other items. The term is used to describe both animal and human behavior. Hoarding of food is a natural behaviour in certain species of anim...
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TROPICS System - Information about the project: The role of scatter-hoarding in the regeneration of rodent-dispersed rain forest tress in French Guiana ... Objective : Quantify relative importance of scatter-hoarding animals for the regeneration success of some canopy tree species...
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It is thus likely that scatter-hoarding is fairly widespread. The Cape Spiny Mouse also buried tagged serotinous seeds of Ld laureolum and myrmecochorous seeds of Ls conocarpodendron, and even of sunflower nuts.
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What Kinds of Birds Store Food? ... Some Birds Can Remember Thousands of Caches ... Some people are forever looking for their keys, eyeglasses, cell phones, TV remotes, and many other objects. It seems a foible of human nature that the smartest organism to ever live on Earth has such a problem remembering where an object was...
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Gray squirrels use what ecologists call "scatter hoarding," in which they bury single nuts, such as acorns and walnuts, in numerous locations. Being a bit squirrely, gray squirrels seldom remember where they bury every nut.
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