Westley Dang

2721 days ago

These are birds that cache—they hide a variety of foods in stashes and then return to them later. The jays have a remarkable capacity to remember what they cached where, when they did it, and who was watching. That’s called episodic memory, and we once imagined it was a uniquely human skill.

The Brilliance of the Birds

scientificamerican.com

What are the most intelligent creatures on the planet? Humans come first. (Though there are days when we have to wonder.) After Homo sapiens, most people might answer chimpanzees, and then maybe dogs and dolphins.