Blue Jay vs. Squirrel

I'll call this contest "the great nut race!" You know that blue jays also collect acorns just like squirrels - well let's see who can collect the most acorns at once. Those squirrels are very smart, they can remember their acorns through the fall and into the winter. And they're also very good leapers: they're very good at jumping from place to place. But the blue jay can fly - we all know that. Which is practically better than leaping. And the blue jay has a throat pouch that can carry 4, plus 1 in its mouth, which makes 5 of course. And the blue jay can remember it over winter into next spring. And if a squirrel forgets where an acorn is, it grows into another tree of nuts. But if a blue jay chooses not to eat an acorn, it will grow into a tree too. And really, blue jays do that sometimes. And squirrels, they sometimes dig a fake hole. Here is how it works... an acorn predator comes along, let say a wild turkey (Oh and believe it or not, wild turkeys can fly). The wild turkey lands near a squirrel and the squirrel has an acorn and he digs a hole and then the turkey lands near the hole he digs and he checks to see if there are any nuts inside.And guess what. There's no nuts inside the hole. The squirrel really put his nuts somewhere else.

(photo from wikipedia.org)

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