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Fox squirrels roam the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. They climb trees, hop across the grass, and bury nuts to eat later. Scientist Mikel Delgado knows this because she has spent the past few years keeping track of where the animals go!
Delgado studies how animals behave and process information. When she was a graduate student at the university, she wanted to know whether squirrels bury their nuts with any intention or pattern. In a series of experiments, Delgado and her team looked at how squirrels make decisions about where they store nuts. Her research uncovered complexities of squirrel behavior that no one had ever recorded before.
Fox squirrels roam the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. They climb trees, hop across the grass, and bury nuts to eat later. Scientist Mikel Delgado knows all about them. She has spent years keeping track of where the animals go!
Delgado studies how animals behave. She started studying squirrels as a graduate student at the university. She wanted to know whether squirrels bury their nuts in a particular pattern. So she and her team designed experiments to find out how squirrels decide where to store nuts. They discovered things about squirrel behavior that scientists hadn’t known before.