Squirrels are very good at stashing excess food in times of plenty and have the amazing ability to recall where they buried it months later.

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Squirrels are very good at stashing excess food in times of plenty and have the amazing ability to recall where they buried it months later. Humans would be hard pushed to remember many hundreds of locations, or more.

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