The socioeconomics of food hoarding in wild squirrels

A food-hoarding squirrel reshapes its physical environment through storing food. These changes have ramifications for future economic decisions that cascade into social and reproductive consequences. Food-hoarding strategies exist on a continuum from concentrated caches in defended larder to scattered using memory olfaction. emerge response specific environments. Because are pilfered, the hoarder must also respond competitive environment. Here, we review recent studies, both captivity field, socioeconomics cognition of hoarding tree squirrels chipmunks. As ubiquitous inhabitants an increasingly urbanized world, these studies illuminate theoretical applied research potential study such squirrels.