Fun? fact: Squirrels have the most food scarcity in spring because thier acorn stashes start sprouting before more acorns have fallen.
Unfun facts, I've been feeding the birds for several years and obviously 95% of that went to the squirrels and there were dozens and they all disappeared last year. I found a few pieces of squirrel corpses around, something killed them all and ate them. Have no idea what it was.
That's terrible for you and the squirrels but some apex predator's babies are getting really well nourished. Or it's also possible many squirrels noped out of the area after a few were devoured.
The circle of life is truly a beautiful thing.
Tree grows
More nuts!
Forget or spontaneous development of agriculture in another species? Any computational xenolinguists know how to ask a squirrel about its intentions?
It's theorized that this is why oak trees make an inordinate number of acorns every 7 years. It tricks the squirrels to burying more acorns than they could possibly consume without them getting used to the abundance that might otherwise cause them to stop squirreling away so many.
starts snowing
“In terms of nuts, we have no nuts.”
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May I?
Hell yeah
There's an elegant set of studies in animals that utilize caches like this, they have impressive spatial mapping and memory. Forgetting is less likely than not needing to utilize or purposeful deceipt (fake cache made under observation).
Digs up all my acorns I'm trying to grow instead
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