Mountain Chickadee Natural Selection Hinges on Spatial Cognition (VIDEO)

University of Nevada, Reno

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Chickadees with better learning and memory skills, needed to find numerous food caches, are more likely to survive their first winter, a long-term study of mountain chickadees has found.

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Jennifer Sande, University of Nevada, Reno

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