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Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Learn more More Like This. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Horton Hears a Who! Puss in Boots Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: RJ voice Garry Shandling Verne voice Steve Carell Hammy voice Wanda Sykes Stella voice William Shatner Ozzie voice Nick Nolte Vincent voice Thomas Haden Church Dwayne voice Allison Janney Gladys voice Eugene Levy Lou voice Catherine O'Hara Penny voice Avril Lavigne Heather voice Omid Djalili Tiger voice Sami Kirkpatrick Bucky voice Shane Baumel Spike voice Madison Davenport Edit Storyline RJ, a raccoon who needs food, accidentally takes food from a hungry bear named Vincent and he wants his food to be found in exactly the same place in a week.

And rather than leaving their goods aboveground where other squirrels can steal them, they bury them — this is called "caching" — about an inch 2. Squirrels are known to crack open a nut before burying it, to keep it from germinating. When it comes time to eat, they forage for the nuts they buried. While squirrels possess a strong sense of smell, which allows them to sniff out nuts from under a blanket of dirt, researchers have long noticed evidence of strategic intelligence in the placement of their food.

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For instance, one study in reported that Eastern gray squirrels engage in "deceptive caching" — they dig a hole, pretend to throw the acorn in while holding it in their mouth , cover up the empty hole, and run off to another secret-stash place. They do this, it was suggested, to fool other squirrels who might be watching. The latest study by Mikel M. Delgado and Lucia F. Jacobs, professors at UC Berkeley indicates more complex thinking behind the caching.

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In field experiments conducted over 19 months from to , researchers fed 45 "marked, free-ranging" Eastern fox squirrels one nut at a time — 16 total for each squirrel — varying the type of nut almonds, hazelnuts, pecans and walnuts. If the squirrels didn't eat the nuts right away, researchers tracked through GPS where the squirrels subsequently buried the prizes.

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What they found showed evidence of " spatial chunking. No, wait, pizza was not involved in this study. But you get the point.

This mnemonic strategy has also been seen in rats. The findings, researchers write in the study , show that "a scatter hoarder could employ spatial chunking during cache distribution as a cognitive strategy to decrease memory load and hence increase accuracy of retrieval. Squirrels have a lot to think about, in other words, and they need all the memory tricks they can get.

At least one other researcher — the guy who figured out squirrels were fake-burying nuts in the above-referenced study — agrees with the new findings.

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Steele, a biology professor at Wilkes University in Pennsylvania, says in an email. The findings, Steele says, can be translated to Eastern gray squirrels, who share similar feeding habits to fox squirrels. The Berkeley study took into account, among other variables, the sex of the squirrels in the experiment, the order in which the nuts were received by the squirrels, and the weight and nutritional value of each nut.

The next time you see a squirrel digging up a nut, know that she might've just found the exact one she was looking for.