Blue and great tits recall what they have eaten in the past, where they found the food and when they found it, a study by the University of Cambridge and University of East Anglia has shown. In the first experiment of its kind to involve wild animals, the birds demonstrated ‘episodic-like’ memory to cope with changes in food availability when foraging. Episodic memory is a system involving the conscious recollection of personally experienced events. While many psychologists believe it is uniquely human, a growing body of evidence suggests that many animals possess episodic-like memory too. And…
