Beak-chain! Birds have 'cryptocurrency style mental barcodes' to remember where they stashed food
Published date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:21:57 +0700Researchers have claimed that birds have 'mental barcodes' to remember where they stashed food - similar to the computer hash codes used in the blockchain.
In a study published in the journal Cell on March 29, scientists shed light on how small birds, chikadees, encode and retrieve memories of stashed food, revealing the existence of unique neural barcodes associated with each caching event.
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