Wild robins at a New Zealand sanctuary have demonstrated they can remember a foraging task they were taught almost two years ago, according to findings published in Biology Letters. Researchers taught the birds how to open compartments in a box to reach a treat inside, then 22 months later tested them with the same box, with most opening the correct compartments on the first try.
“This is the first study to show [memory] longevity in the wild,” says Vladimir Pravosudov, an animal behavior researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno, who was not involved in the study. click on title above to open the article (after clicking the “not right now” box
