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Squirrels are famously forgetful in popular culture, yet field studies show they can relocate roughly 85 percent of the nuts they hide, a success rate that would put most human key-finders to shame.

As winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, people retreat indoors, and the pace of life seems to slow—but not for squirrels. Across forests, parks and your backyard, these animals go into ...

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Every year, squirrels bury thousands of nuts, yet they only recover about a quarter of them. This is not due to forgetfulness, but rather a reliance on spatial memory and scent detection. Recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Squirrels don't use a single strategy to recover their stashes. Every fall, squirrels stash thousands of nuts and other snacks in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every fall, squirrels stash hundreds of nuts to survive the colder winter months. As someone who routinely "hides" things from ...