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Chickadees Have Unique Neural Barcodes for Episodic Memories, Researchers Say


Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), small North American passerine birds that live in deciduous and mixed forests, have extraordinary memories that can recall the locations of thousands of morsels of food to help them survive the winter.

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