western scrub jay by blueberry1222

western scrub jay

I just learned that scrub jays are the only non-primate or non-dolphin shown to plan ahead for the future (known as metacognition), which was previously thought of as a uniquely human trait. Other studies have shown that they can remember locations of over 200 food caches, as well as the food item in each cache and its rate of decay. Pretty cool bird!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_scrub_jay
Cool info. Nice shot.
I wonder how are these studies performed. Fascinating.
June 30th, 2021  
Lovely shot of this intelligent bird, great info too.
June 30th, 2021  
Lovely bird and capture!
June 30th, 2021  
Nice shot and interesting facts
June 30th, 2021  
Great capture
June 30th, 2021  
Bep
Lovely shot and interesting info.
June 30th, 2021  
Beautiful blue!
June 30th, 2021  
Great shot!
June 30th, 2021  
Terrific shot, and great info!
June 30th, 2021  
Wow, cool info and nice photo
July 1st, 2021  
Nice shot of a beautiful bird. Watching us deny the existence of climate change makes me wonder if humans really think about their future.
July 1st, 2021  
Very pretty.
July 1st, 2021  
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