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Chickadees Use Brain-Cell Barcodes' to Remember Where They Stashed Their Snacks
Black-capped Chickadees store food in thousands of locations for times of scarcity with precise memory on the location and content.
Chickadees activate unique barcodelike patterns in their brain for storing and retrieving food memories without mixing them up. [ more ]