Mountain Chickadees Live Year-Round in Harsh Sierra Nevada Climate (IMAGE)

University of Nevada, Reno

Mountain Chickadees Live Year-Round in Harsh Sierra Nevada Climate

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University of Nevada, Reno research results provide the first direct evidence for natural selection on spatial cognition in wild food-caching mountain chickadees in one-of-a-kind in the world high-altitude field lab.

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Vladimir Pravosudov, University of Nevada, Reno

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