Comparative cognition: Free-living birds remember things past

Curr Biol. 2024 Aug 19;34(16):R772-R774. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.027.

Abstract

New research suggests that free-living blue and great tits remember foraging, including food type, location, and time since eating, even when event details were not known to be relevant for a subsequent assessment of memory, implicating the use of episodic memory in natural behavior.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cognition* / physiology
  • Feeding Behavior
  • Memory / physiology
  • Memory, Episodic
  • Passeriformes / physiology