tara_patel•26d agoProlific Poster

Showerthought: I learned that squirrels forget where they bury 74% of their acorns

I was scrolling through some nature blog this morning while drinking coffee and stumbled across this stat. Turns out gray squirrels bury thousands of acorns each fall but only find about a quarter of them again. That leftover 74% is what sprouts into new oak trees every year. So basically we owe whole forests to squirrels having bad memories. Has anyone else run into a random fact that completely reframed how you see something ordinary in your day?

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joel_hall1726d ago

Actually they remember more than that. The 74% stat is way oversimplified.

nora11026d ago

Wait, 74% is actually way higher than I thought.

milaw1426d ago

Whoa hold on, 74% is actually way higher than I thought too. I figured it would be something pathetic like 20 or 30 percent at best, not almost three quarters. That's honestly nuts if true, because you hear all the time how nobody remembers anything from ads or articles. Makes you wonder what the other 26% of people are even doing, probably scrolling with their eyes closed.