Food hoarding
(2019) p.157-164- Abstract
Many animals store food outside of their own bodies for later consumption, not only birds and mammals, but also invertebrates such as honeybees. I refer to such food storage as hoarding, to distinguish it from internal storage such as in fat deposits. There are two distinct food-hoarding strategies: larder hoarding (all food is stored in one or a few central larders) and scatter hoarding (storage locations are dispersed, frequently one food item in each). Birds provide some of the best-known examples of food hoarding. Species such as nutcrackers may store tens of thousands of nuts per individual and year. They possess spatial memory capacities that enable them to remember precise storage locations and return to these up to a year after... (More)
Many animals store food outside of their own bodies for later consumption, not only birds and mammals, but also invertebrates such as honeybees. I refer to such food storage as hoarding, to distinguish it from internal storage such as in fat deposits. There are two distinct food-hoarding strategies: larder hoarding (all food is stored in one or a few central larders) and scatter hoarding (storage locations are dispersed, frequently one food item in each). Birds provide some of the best-known examples of food hoarding. Species such as nutcrackers may store tens of thousands of nuts per individual and year. They possess spatial memory capacities that enable them to remember precise storage locations and return to these up to a year after storing. Food-hoarding birds have become a popular study system for memory research, and much of this research investigates the role of the hippocampus in food storing, a brain structure that is important for the physical storage of memory. Food hoarding may be important for seed dispersal for plants that form nuts. Food hoarding can be seen as an alternative to the storage of body fat deposits.
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- author
- Brodin, Anders LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2019-02-06
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Cache retrieval, Caching, Energy storing, Food hoarding, Food storing, Larder hoarding, Long-term hoarding, Scatter hoarding, Seed dispersal, Short-term hoarding, Spatial memory
- host publication
- Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
- editor
- Chun Choe, Jae
- edition
- 2
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85079252164
- ISBN
- 978-0-12-813252-4
- 9780128132517
- DOI
- 10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.20865-0
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 39ebb09d-6e98-4897-be48-10c596b9ba18
- date added to LUP
- 2020-02-26 10:54:53
- date last changed
- 2024-04-17 05:56:46
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abstract = {{<p>Many animals store food outside of their own bodies for later consumption, not only birds and mammals, but also invertebrates such as honeybees. I refer to such food storage as hoarding, to distinguish it from internal storage such as in fat deposits. There are two distinct food-hoarding strategies: larder hoarding (all food is stored in one or a few central larders) and scatter hoarding (storage locations are dispersed, frequently one food item in each). Birds provide some of the best-known examples of food hoarding. Species such as nutcrackers may store tens of thousands of nuts per individual and year. They possess spatial memory capacities that enable them to remember precise storage locations and return to these up to a year after storing. Food-hoarding birds have become a popular study system for memory research, and much of this research investigates the role of the hippocampus in food storing, a brain structure that is important for the physical storage of memory. Food hoarding may be important for seed dispersal for plants that form nuts. Food hoarding can be seen as an alternative to the storage of body fat deposits.</p>}},
author = {{Brodin, Anders}},
booktitle = {{Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior}},
editor = {{Chun Choe, Jae}},
isbn = {{978-0-12-813252-4}},
keywords = {{Cache retrieval; Caching; Energy storing; Food hoarding; Food storing; Larder hoarding; Long-term hoarding; Scatter hoarding; Seed dispersal; Short-term hoarding; Spatial memory}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{02}},
pages = {{157--164}},
publisher = {{Elsevier}},
title = {{Food hoarding}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.20865-0}},
doi = {{10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.20865-0}},
year = {{2019}},
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