Sentences with phrase «food caches when»

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She found that the birds would return to caches when the food they had hidden was about to spoil.

For example, when ravens are being watched, they hide food more quickly and are less likely to return to a previously made cache, both of which might reveal the location of a cache to a possible pilferer.

«These observations suggest that when lacking the cognitive anchor of a central food source, fox squirrels utilize a different and perhaps simpler heuristic (problem - solving approach) to simply avoid the areas where they had previously cached,» the study concludes.

During normal times, when you can wheel by the supermarket to get dinner, your food cache isnâ $ ™ t worth much.