Starship Prompt

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A scatter hoarder has cache sites all over their territory they don t put all their eggs in one basket Sure some of their food will be forgotten or stolen over the winter but the goal is to have

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Depending on the environment different species have adapted different hoarding behaviors Scatter hoarding as the name implies is when an animal scatters small food stashes

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Scientists distinguish between two primary forms of animal hoarding larder hoarding storing everything in one central place and scatter hoarding dispersing caches across multiple sites

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We ll start by explaining what scatter hoarding is and how animals like squirrels chipmunks and rodents hide many small pieces of food across different locations in their territory You ll

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Scatter hoarding rodents may rely on their olfactory abilities and explore a wide area to retrieve their cached seeds which may help to increase the probability of encountering and pilfering

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Scatter hoarding is a common food hoarding strategy of many granivores known to significantly contribute to seed dispersal

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That s where scatter hoarding comes in As soon as the tree nuts begin to ripen the squirrels start caching them A hickory nut here an acorn there a walnut saved for later Research

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Storing seeds or acorns for later like this is risky other animals frequently steal them leaving the hoarding mouse or squirrel unprepared and taken advantage of Scientists have

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In nature a hoarder will hide food in one place Everything it gathers will be stored in a single tree or den But for some animals one food cache isn t enough We call them scatter