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Rocky's day on friday

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:29 pm
by Guest

Rocky's day on friday

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:34 pm
by Rocky
Awesome, thank you!

Rocky's day on friday

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:56 am
by Rocky
You think the global food crisis is bad? Consider this:

"25% of nuts are stolen
An interesting quirk about gray squirrels is not that they bury their nuts, but they’ll often dig those nuts up and then rebury them somewhere else, over and over and over again. Why go through all this trouble, you ask? Well, apparently squirrels can lose as much as 25% of their cached nuts to thieves! And the largest perpetrator of such crimes are other squirrels, specifically other gray squirrels. So by burying, digging up, and then reburying their food supply, squirrels ensure the safety of their nuts and throw off nosey thieves following their trail.

74% of buried nuts are never recovered
With all this burying, digging up, and reburying, you’d think squirrels have such a great memory to continuously find their nuts. But actually, squirrels fail to recover up to 74% of the nuts they buried. And most of the nuts they dig up, are nuts that they steal from other squirrels! So what happens to the nuts they forget and their squirrel buddies couldn’t find? Well, the gray squirrel’s forgetfulness actually helps reforestation, as the nuts they were unable to find for the winter begin to sprout in the spring, and grow into giant trees over time. In fact, the further a squirrel reburies their cache, the more tree growth spreads, which is actually great for the environment."

Sherman and I are working on a buried nut tracking app.