What Food-Caching Birds Remember

This episode explores Evidence for memory of location, food type and time in species that store food. The story keeps the mechanisms clear and the research grounded for a casual listener. Inside this episode: - Why hide food - Memory for where - Remembering what - Remembering when - Caches have audiences Sources include Problems faced by food-caching corvids, Food-caching corvid cognition review, and Social cognition by food-caching corvids. This episode is a researched narrative summary. Historical records may be incomplete, translated differently, or interpreted differently by scholars. We distinguish documented facts, estimates, disputed interpretations, and later stories where material. Corrections are logged and incorporated into future editions. Follow More Than Instinct: Inside Animal Intelligence for more researched stories about the science of animal intelligence.