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Don’t look back. (at Davis, California)

Let your light shine through. (at UC Davis)

Ever feel like you're stuck going round and around in circles? 🔄🔄🔄 (at Donner Summit)

Tunnel vision. #NonLandscapeChallenge No. 12 . . . . . . #tunnel #tunnelvision #truckee #tahoe #laketahoe #donnerpass #explore #exploremore #justgo #symmetry #SymmetricalMonsters #vanishingpoint #symmetrykillers #skrwt #allhailsymmetry #vanishingpoint #VisitSacramento #VisitCalifornia #California #UCDavis #beautifulplaces #letsgosomewhere #liveauthentic #authenticcalifornia #thecreatorclass #mkexplore #agameoftones #illkillers #igerssac (at Donner Summit)

Stopped by the environmental horticulture greenhouses. #UCDavis #DavisCA #Davis #UCD #YourSchoolYourView #visitsacramento #igerssac #California #NorCal #DavisIsBeautiful #YoloCounty #Yolo #Fog #FoggyDay #Environmental #Horticulture #greenhouse #stop (at UC Davis Environmental Horticulture Building)

#horticulture #davisisbeautiful #fog #yourschoolyourview #ucdavis #yolo #stop #foggyday #yolocounty #environmental #ucd #igerssac #visitsacramento #davis #california #davisca #norcal #greenhouse

Reflections|snoitcelfeR 🌳🌳 🍂🍂 from the other day. #ucdavis (at UC Davis)

#ucdavis

Devastated by the #Wragg fire this past July and August, I’m hoping that #Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve and the greater Lake Berryessa area rebound quickly to their former beauty. This #wildflower was captured in April 2015. (at Lake Berryessa)

#wildflower #wragg #stebbins

#🏝🏊 (at Honokowai Area)

#🏝🏊

Up all night shooting stars in the House of the Sun. #🚫😴 #🌌 #🏕 #👽 (at Haleakalā National Park)

#👽#🏕#🌌#🚫😴

Autumn reflects off the surface of Lake Spafford in the @ucdavis_arboretum. (at Lake Spafford, UC Davis)

Don't forget to look up. #👀⬆🌌 #🌌 #👽 #🚫😴 #Star #Stars #StarryNight #milkingit #milkyway #DavisCA #UCDavis #Nature #NatureAddict #rei1440project #Astrophotography #NightNight #sky #LookUp #DavisIsBeautiful #NorCal #IgersSac #VisitCalifornia #VisitSacramento #SacAfterDark #Yolo #skyscape #yourshot (at Davis, California)

#🌅 (at Lahaina, Hawaii)

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Sunset in Chinchero, Peru. According to #Andean legend - this high elevation region (~12,300 feet) with breathtaking views of snow-capped peaks - is the mythical birthplace of the #rainbow. #🌄 #🌈

#rainbow #🌈#🌄#andean

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When it comes to nuts, squirrels are strategic

It’s easy to underestimate our fellow urban dweller, but researchers at UC Berkeley have been finding out that squirrels are much more savvy than they might appear.

“They don’t just randomly handle their food,” says Mikel Delgado, a UC Berkeley psychology doctoral candidate who has been studying the common scatter-hoarding Fox squirrels around campus.

If you observe carefully, you’ll notice a Fox squirrel will inspect a retrieved nut by rotating it in its hands and mouth. Researchers found that the more headshakes squirrels do during their assessment, the more likely they are to save and bury it.

Squirrels will travel farther to bury heavier nuts that have higher nutritional value and are less likely to spoil. The assumption is that burying them farther will avoid theft and competition from other squirrels, says Delgado.

During the fall season when nuts are more abundant, they’ll take advantage of the surplus in the environment and cache significantly more.

Research also suggests that squirrels actually rely heavily on memory rather than smell to find the thousands of nuts they’ve buried.

In an experiment conducted with humans who were tasked to do the same caching and retrieval activity, researchers found that remembering and locating buried items requires a highly developed spatial memory that is much more evolved in scatter-hoarding squirrels than in humans.

“We all see squirrels all the time. And as is true with most urban wildlife, they’re doing all these interesting things right under our noses,” says Delgado. “The fact that they can live around humans reflect a certain amount of intelligence and adaptability to problem solve in a very complex environment.”

You can follow Delgado’s research on squirrels (and cats!) on her blog

A Ginkgo biloba tree drops golden leaves in the #UCDavis arboretum. . . . . . #🌳🍂 (at University of California, Davis Arboretum)

#🌳🍂#ucdavis

Productive #insomnia. #🌠 #🌌 #🚫😴 #Leonid (at Davis, California)

#🌠#leonid #insomnia #🌌#🚫😴

Waiting to arrive. ✈ (at Sacramento International Airport)

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