To Cache or Not to Cache: A Case Study on the Evolution of Food Caching in Birds

This website was completed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Biology 323, Animal Behavior, at Davidson College in the Spring Semester 2009.

Acorn Woodpecker

The purpose of this website is to engage those just learning about the behavior of food caching in a process of critical thinking regarding its evolutionary significance. Information will be given and questions will be posed, but answers will not be forthcoming. Instead, it is up to the reader to put the pieces together.

First, some background must be given, but strictly on a need to know basis. You may, or may not, be asking yourself at this time, "what the heck is food caching!?"

Food Caching: The movement of food items from one location to another for consumption at a later time.

This, my friends, is all I'm willing to divulge at the moment. Click on the "Page 1" link below, if you dare!!!

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Here is a link to a literature review on the subject.

Please send any comments or questions to ropalmer@davidson.edu