Squirrels are burying their nuts at this time of year in preparation for winter. How do they remember where they've hoarded their nuts? They must hide thousands.
2007-10-15 10:02:37 · 10 answers · asked by Seed Plower 5 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
i have seen thousands of nuts hidden between the two tree trunks below me. the same squirrel never comes back for his own, but he must be telling all the others......
2007-10-15 13:10:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that they must left their senses around their holes to identify where they hid them in the springtime. I saw them used their hindleg to bury the nuts too. very educational for 3 years old. LOL
2007-10-15 10:28:12 · answer #2 · answered by mycorollababy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I am thinking their instincts kick in when they need to know where they hide them... but I had been told by a wildlife expert that many, many instances, they never return to some spots where they hide them & some spots will be found later on in the Spring, when humans clean up their yards!
2007-10-15 10:09:49 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They hide a bunch of nuts and when they are hungry they try to find the nuts but they don't always find them.
2007-10-15 10:10:34 · answer #4 · answered by leafs91 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you serious? If so check out the squirrel web site below. Good luck on understanding squirrels :)
2007-10-15 10:10:14 · answer #5 · answered by jenmcmahon216 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they don`t that is the whole point that is why they are so important as agents that ensure reforestation ,they may remember one third or less of the nuts they bury ,the rest germinates and grows into trees
2007-10-15 19:09:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i became into going to assert confident that we've quite a few categories of nut crackers right here as we manage pecans. Then I examine something of it and suggested OOOUCH, i be attentive to that had to wreck. yet I constantly thought that they have been 'noggin titties'. strolling around the backyard step on one, knock you on your noggin (head on your shoulders, for individuals who don't be attentive to or by no potential heard of a noggin). I found out rather speedy to 'stand' them up!
2016-10-09 07:22:42 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
squirells dont remember where they are what they do is they can smell them and when they are looking they can smell the nut under ground and when theres snow they just dig a liitle bit into the ground to find them
2007-10-15 10:34:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard they don't. The forget were most of them are. That is how new trees grow, because those nuts are tree seeds.
2007-10-15 10:08:18 · answer #9 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The nature books I read in my childhood say that they forget and have to search hard to get any later on. You are what you eat - they are nutty.
2007-10-15 10:06:26 · answer #10 · answered by jenesuispasunnombre 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋