Critter News

Funeral (?)

"When a Western scrub jay dies, researchers report, other jays may hold a kind of funeral — screeching over the body for as long as half an hour."

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Theory of Mind (?)

"The Eurasian jay, a member of the crow family, hides acorns and other food in several thousand locations every year, to be retrieved when food is scarce.

But pilfering by other birds is common, so the jays have developed a strategy, a new study reports: they minimize the noise they make while hiding, or “caching,” their food supplies."