What Really Goes Into Storing Food for the Winter?

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When birds and squirrels cache food for the winter, it means they have to remember where to find that food later. Their strategies for finding their hidden feasts includes memory tricks and changing brains.
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@SciShow 2 года назад

Our friends at MinuteEarth just released a new book! To check out “How Did Whales Get So Big?” head to: www.minuteearth.com/books/

@disrael2101 2 года назад

Interesting thx for sharing their link, my kid can't wait already to get and expirement with it

@bonsaitree4965 2 года назад

Scientist: *gives birds literal brain damage Birds: *has trouble remembering Scientist: "Hmm...interesting" *quickly scribbles down notes.

@lonestarr1490 2 года назад

In the end, that's how we learn how our brains work as well. It's not nice, that's true. But maybe, one day, we might be able to cure or prevent Alzheimer's.

@Gildedmuse 2 года назад

I also raised my eyebrow at that like.... Okay, scientist. Just terrorizing innocent little birdies for fun now, are we? Hopefully, they were well cared for and given food if it became clear they couldn't find their own because we *destroyed parts of their brains*. Like, ai can see why scientist would be interested in the results, I'm just hoping someone thought of the birds.

@greyecologyst4694 2 года назад

@@lonestarr1490 torturing animals for scientific research is not worth the gain. Were gonna cure stokes and Alzheimer's is also what professional monkey torturers tell themselves when they dice and slice monkey brains and see what happens. You'd think after a few hounded years wed be better than Descartes but nope.

@ravenwolf7128 2 года назад

@@Gildedmuse doubt it.

@patrickmccurry1563 2 года назад

@@lonestarr1490 It's already well known that the hippocampus is a major area for memory though. It's like needing to damage the frontal cortex of an animal and being "amazed" that it subsequently had trouble making decisions.

@cathyb1273 2 года назад

And also the fact that squirrels forgot some of their stashes help the renewal of wood and forest.

@mistformsquirrel 2 года назад

*I'm helping!*

@SamWatsonOrSomething 2 года назад

Yep, although they don't always get it right - last year I ended up with a small oak growing in my raised bed 😂

@ithoughtyouknew7036 2 года назад

Squirrels are urban gardeners!! I always cut back on feeding the squirrels at fall. So they can hide the walnuts from my backyard tree. It's good that they can have a back up storage. And during winter, I do end up putting out shell peanuts for the squirrels to find when digging in the snow while they search. The loose seed and nuts I throw out are for the birds and chipmunks. A mix for everyone though. Usually toss before the sun comes up. That way they eat early to help raise their body temp during the cold winter months. There is so much wildlife in our neighborhood. And competition for food gets crazy. Besides that I really enjoy watching them while having coffee. It's the little things... Be blessed everyone

@disrael2101 2 года назад

Wish everyone was thinking like u... P.s. your photo is really beautiful who is it

@ithoughtyouknew7036 2 года назад

@@disrael2101- Thank you, That picture is me.

@jehmarxx 2 года назад

Michael at the end: "I hope you remember something today." Me: "I hope."

@mariejanes7207 2 года назад

I love any of these shows that Michael narrates. Michael, your voice is sublime and perfect for this, backed with your humor and understanding.

@Grymgar 2 года назад

Chickadee's hippocampi be like: "It's the cold season, we need to upgrade to more RAM!"

@DoctorX17 2 года назад

I love that MinuteEarth is successful enough to have a book and advertise it here. I hope this spurs a crossover episode!

@PatrickSandy78 2 года назад

Best hair on Scishow!

@rikvanderbruggen988 2 года назад

2026 his hair will reach his knees

@matthewstarnes2469 2 года назад

Thanks for another great video Michael! Love seeing you host ♥️

@Christopher-N 2 года назад

This doesn't even take into account false caches. If a scrub jay suspects that another animal will raid its cache, it'll act like it's burying the nut, but then take it with them to hide somewhere else.

@scottlepak7068 2 года назад

Squirrels will do this as well. Mainly to deceive other squirrels.

@patrickmccurry1563 2 года назад

@@scottlepak7068 I think it's also if it's anyone watching them intently, even humans. Not crazy as we humans do eat a lot of different types of nuts.

@robertgermainii7813 2 года назад

Happy turkey day everyone!

@lonestarr1490 2 года назад

Especially the turks!

@joshchen8679 2 года назад

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

@samsunguser3148 2 года назад

Thanksgiving?

@applegal3058 2 года назад

Gobble gobble! 🦃

@stuartyeo5354 2 года назад

🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

@justDaisyMae 2 года назад

omg his hair is amazinggg 🤩

@TaoriUTS 2 года назад

it's especially hilarious that he apparently used all the corona time to get really buff. it's funny when you watch scishow for years and someone very nerdy turns into a nerdy football player shaped guy :D

@AryadiSubagio 2 года назад

I like how he experiments with his hairstyle, lol

@ACloutToken 2 года назад

the squirrel or Michael?

@AryadiSubagio 2 года назад

@@ACloutToken Michael I mean XD

@jacobduva1986 2 года назад

Cut it!!!!

@SuddenSwine 2 года назад

Never cut. Hair is power! Lol

@harku123 2 года назад

Michael has gone through quite a few the last decade

@nutterbutter9069 2 года назад

It’s been interesting seeing Michael’s hair-journey since the beginning of 2020

@Rubrickety 2 года назад

Less well known is that hippos store food for the winter, during which time their chickadeecampuses get larger.

@tichu7 2 года назад

I wonder if it's really memory, or if it's just a preference for certain cache locations. Me retrieving my keys from the shelf each morning doesn't mean I have a good memory - just that I always put my keys on the shelf. Animals could have the same kind of personal preference for hiding spots.

@skeletopedia3122 2 года назад

Helpful tips to store food for the winter!!!

@mizzdeester3958 2 года назад

Chickadee is an actual creature 😮🤣 I thought it was just something my mum called me when I was a kid

@Deeplycloseted435 2 года назад

I have squirrels and chipmunks everywhere. They work so hard. I always wonder how they’re making it, when its -10 degrees.

@moyetlicious 2 года назад

Michael with long hair is so dreamy, never cut that beautiful hair!

@tuxuhds6955 2 года назад

Next ice age: Chickadees invent fire!

@LeesaDeAndrea 2 года назад

One spring I found a tiny birds nest that was filled with safflower seed from my bird feeder. There are lots of chickadees here so I wonder if they are the ones who stashed the seed. But I have also found stashes of seed inside my charcoal grill & inside an upside down clay flower pot. One year I found a stash of corn seeds in my car. I suppose chickadees could have squeezed inside the grill or through the drainage hole in the pot. But no way they could have gotten to my car parked in the garage.

@lonestarr1490 2 года назад

You're a pretty experienced corn seed stash finder.

@trishayamada807 2 года назад

Rodents. We had mice in our garage. I opened the glove box in my car to find seeds and a mouse nest.

@samsunguser3148 2 года назад

It was their rent

@barbaralong2212 2 года назад

Do you have mice around?

@heidipomeroy5605 2 года назад

I have chipmunks that do that. The little boogers.....😏

@Turtletoots3 2 года назад

I imagine a squirrel Phil would remember through rhymes. "Nuts rhyme with butts - bottom of the pit." "Food rhymes with dude - by Frank's house!"

@IsmailAbdulMusic 2 года назад

Goes to show, all animals have a place and method of function. Interesting for sure!

@rosieposie1760 2 года назад

Minute Earth and Scishow! supporting each other is the first step to collab! I want a collab of these two.

@rikofebri627 2 года назад

Chickadees : hiding food BIG BRAIN MOVES

@lh3540 2 года назад

This explains why peanuts keep showing up in my potted plants. 🐿️

@Brownyman 2 года назад

Squirrels also live incredibly long for such a small mammal.

@twocvbloke 2 года назад

Nah, those illustrations are what I expect from XKCD, I love their cartoons... :D

@rogerszmodis 2 года назад

In the spring this year I went into the shed that had been closed since the last time I cut grass before the winter (like September) and I found it full of several thousand walnuts. 4 big garbage bags full.

@kittypurr11 2 года назад

Aww, that was a squirrel's little stash. Probably! :)

@rogerszmodis 2 года назад

@@kittypurr11 I was surprised to find that many. It would have been just one squirrel. I got a nearly a full bag of nuts that were still good enough for human consumption (they still had the fruit around the nut and were still mostly frozen)and the rest I put in a pile in the corner of my back yard to compost but a lot of them have been eaten or taken to be hoarded again.

@filthycasual9724 2 года назад

Oh cool! The black-capped chickadee is my provinces official bird!

@carlyblack42 2 года назад

😅 "Of a certain age" to remember phone numbers. Ouch. But this is neat job learn that squirrels use the same memory devices we do

@amrys_argent 2 года назад

Haha I felt that too.

@maxmusterman3371 2 года назад

Holy chickadee, how can they GROW brain cells? interesting

@UrvineSpiegel 2 года назад

Black-Capped Chickadee: Its big brain time

@Celestyal22 2 года назад

I found a few chipmunk cache's while cleaning some product on the shelf at work yesterday. Now to find the chipmunk.

@DrSpooglemon 2 года назад

Hey squirrel! How do you find your food? Squirrel: I chonk!

@Jolfgard 2 года назад

A fridge is practical, but salt also does the trick.

@Benni777 2 года назад

Wait, the plural for hippocampus is hippocampi? I had no idea! 🤯

@lonestarr1490 2 года назад

What else should it be? hippocacampae?

@rikvanderbruggen988 2 года назад

@@lonestarr1490 hippocampusususus

@-._.-._--._.-._--._.-._--._.-. 2 года назад

@@rikvanderbruggen988 Ok zoomer

@kimbratton9620 2 года назад

Nice looking squirrel!

@thomasgeorgecastleberry6918 2 года назад

I stuck a Baloney Sandwich under my pillow and forgot about it, until I got a whiff.

@dynamosaurusimperious2718 2 года назад

Well this is nice,also hope y'all are having a happy Thanksgiving

@JasonBrozic 2 года назад

Great narration Shinobi Or should I say, Mitsurugi from Soul Calibur

@Drunken.J0hn 2 года назад

what

@JasonBrozic 2 года назад

@@Drunken.J0hn Haha I was talking about his hair

@francispitts9440 2 года назад

Yes I’m one of those people who is older and had to remember all the important phone numbers. Area codes were only for long distance calls. So you only needed to remember seven numbers and each state pretty much had one or two area codes. I’ll never forget my phone number from the house I grew up in. Or my girlfriends number 😎

@mikegarcia597 2 года назад

He’s giving arianieeee with his half up half down

@saulgonzales2981 2 года назад

Sooooooo awesome! Thank you

@linlattwaialexa5582 2 года назад

This is such an amazing lesson! The questions that I've been wondering about : Do wood have cells?

@dweebicusmaximus 2 года назад

All plants have cells, they just look different than animal cells-plant cells have a thick cell wall that the animal cell lacks. Wood is a part of a plant, meaning it has plant cells.

@MrCesarification 2 года назад

How did they assess the size of the chickadees’ hippocampi?

@chappers666770 2 года назад

Probly rmi

@joeasher2876 2 года назад

Squirrels use mnemonic devices? I think a much deeper dive is required on that one.

@desertdragon2397 2 года назад

Sci Show shines again with this video. I just hope I can find my nuts again.

@madsringswaldegan1687 2 года назад

Michael!!!!!

@Cedrus_ 2 года назад

Think yall will ever make a vid or short vid about cedar trees?

@TheBeachMawMaw 2 года назад

Very interesting!! Thanks!

@0condolences 2 года назад

This is the first scishow vid to say "booty" & "nuts" lmao 🤣😭

@chloehennessey6813 2 года назад

I hope you’re all enjoying your families and maybe celebrating Thanksgiving as my family and I are.

@Tarkov. 2 года назад

The 'phone number memory' part reminds me of the phone number from IT Crowd... No, I don't remember the whole thing...but I'm sure someone here does.

@NovelNovelist 2 года назад

Oh humans and squirrels use some of the same techniques to remember things? In that case, pro trip squirrels: email yourself important reminders! Works for me every time.

@sapphirII 2 года назад

And then you have foxes, who piss on their cache, then piss again when have taken the food.

@dameech6697 2 года назад

Sometimes they store mushrooms and if you feed them they'll bring them to you.

@johnno4127 2 года назад

That really threw me for a loop, show starts, "Hi this is SciShow with MinuteEarth"... wait what, that's the wrong voice.

@DarkMoonDroid 2 года назад

That's it!!! Next time someone accuses me of hoarding, I'll tell them that I need to grow my hippocampus bigger! It's good for my bwain!!! 🧠

@patrickmccurry1563 2 года назад

And sadly quite a few things can damage memory function like chronic anxiety. I assume similar stresses could cause other animals similar dysfunction.

@kumararyansingh8965 2 года назад

Nice 👍

@NotAestheticallyPleased 2 года назад

Happy Thanksgiving y'all

@mathewking6987 2 года назад

6th and cheese for dinner

@Rootsman417 2 года назад

This nuts!

@scarsonjr 2 года назад

We happy?......Vincent, we happy?

@tehgendo 2 года назад

What Really Goes Into Storing Food for the Winter? DEEZ NU....

@DomyTheMad420 2 года назад

did a RU-vid channel just sponsor another youtube channel?! :D i love the future

@MemphiStig 2 года назад

ah yes, phone numbers... i was really good at remembering those... so why can't i remember where i put anything around the house?

@maximilianosalvador9559 2 года назад

Day 108 of asking for the return of Scishow Quizshow

@jonaszurba4906 2 года назад

2:23 2hat a nice way to say they gave them brain damage lmao

@kikilari 2 года назад

I was quite upset to read that!

@kzgkzgxkmzmvxmgx4755 2 года назад

Chickadees nuts

@bogtrotter5110 2 года назад

I can just picture scientists cutting the hippocampi out of sacrificed squrrels for some trivial knowledge of their habits "How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!” --- John Muir

@m2heavyindustries378 2 года назад

They also get shot and poisoned in large numbers every year, but yeah sure, focus on a few dead lab ones from 1989.

@savagegardenrox 2 года назад

"Of a certain age". Ouch dude. I'm only 27

@hpekristiansen 2 года назад

If you wait a full month to do your shopping, there is only 60% chance that you will remember the location of the grocery store.

@baraka490 2 года назад

How many critters do we believe that where herbivores that aren't because obviously there are no such thing as herbivores cuz you can't just survive over one thing you'd be dead or missing stuff

@patricialessard8651 2 года назад

Happy Thanksgiving! I read that squirrels and Blue Jays helped reforest New England after the glaciers retreated by not finding all their acorns that they hid. Plus other seeds as well. If Chickadees and other birds have a consistent place to get their food such as feeders( feeders that are filled everyday thru the winter) do they still hide as much food? When I lived in the White Mt.s, all through the winter I made sure my feeders were full everyday as well as feeding a red squirrel that lived on my property(he kept the big Grey squirrels from destroying my feeders). I had more birds year round there than any other place I ever lived! They seemed happy. ☺ was this a good thing?

@PaulSteMarie 2 года назад

What the heck? It's that a jackosquirrel in the picture?

@stax6092 2 года назад

Neat.

@lonestarr1490 2 года назад

No. Nut.

@robertfaucher3750 2 года назад

I'd toss a coin to this hairstyle

@tuxuhds6955 2 года назад

Which hair? I wonder why he didn't mention swallow birds.

@robertfaucher3750 2 года назад

@@tuxuhds6955 he looks like a Witcher, and he pulls it off

@tuxuhds6955 2 года назад

@@robertfaucher3750 which is why i've asked "Which hair" -> Witcher. The Swallow is the mark of Ciri.

@robertfaucher3750 2 года назад

@@tuxuhds6955 oh I see

@dude86264 2 года назад

Food is stored in the balls.

@kolossarthas 2 года назад

This is the science I always come back for.

@madhatressadastra8267 2 года назад

Um. That's only food for sperm that's stored in the balls.

@ANTSEMUT1 2 года назад

No it's pee that's stored in the balls.

@cggc9510 2 года назад

If you are of a certain age, you might have used it to remember phone numbers. This line make me feel very old.

@lc7269 2 года назад

Dang, its a shame that SciShow lost this year's No Nut November F in the chat boys

@stephanieparker1250 2 года назад

New brain cells or new/more connections between them?

@RaysOfPivot 2 года назад

6.9M nice

@darkangelprincess101 2 года назад

I can't focus on what your saying when you have such awesome hair

@thesilentone4024 2 года назад

So what really goes into winter food storing hmmm. Better question. How many bugs and plants as well as animals die for you store tomatoes corn and clothing. Ps its in the millions.

@rickkwitkoski1976 2 года назад

Yeah... It's an "organism eat organism" world!

@lemonshark4961 2 года назад

???? What a weird thing to comment. Everything must die eventually so other things can live. That's kind of how life works. Sure, there are lots of things that we are killing at a faster rate than they can recover, but to insinuate that killing things is inherently wrong seems a little silly.

@thesilentone4024 2 года назад

@@lemonshark4961 soo wiping out thousands of species every year for your pesticide covered food thats literally 30% less nutrients in it then 60 years ago. Also around the same time pesticides really took off is when everything stared dieing and food stared to become more Mandan and less nutritious in the literal since. They use insane amounts of water the way they do it and too many things die for corn 40% of which is grown in the usa goes into your gas tank for your car. Soo do you want to kill animals for a crop thats literally going into your cars gas tank. Do you want to pay for the same thing over and over again for 40+ years now thats getting less flavor less nutrients and more pesticides. Thoughts.

@lemonshark4961 2 года назад

@@thesilentone4024 I don't see how any of this relates to what I said or what the video is about? I don't support pesticides and I try to eat locally grown food. I also don't drive... it just seems like you're trying to make an argument out of thin air? Go comment your drivel on a video with the same context, not on one about how animals store food for the winter.

@m2heavyindustries378 2 года назад

@@thesilentone4024 blah blah blah blah I killed a roach and a mouse today, now go cry me a river ya ding dong