WESTERN SCRUB JAYS artfully think ahead
Animal Behaviour: Planning for breakfast
Sara J. Shettleworth1
Abstract
It is commonly believed that planning for the future is a skill unique to humans. Could other animals -- even those as evolutionarily distant as the western scrub jay -- share this skill with us?
Can it ever be said that animals plan ahead? Animals do show behavior that prepares them for the future.....
Sara J. Shettleworth is in the Departments of Psychology and of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 3G3, Canada.
source:
Nature 445, 825-826 (22 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445825a; Published online
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* See picture=> an ever-resourceful, keen, and providently earnest Western Scrub Jay tucks away an abundant & varied supply of acorns, seeds, & other sustenance within his/her local habitat.