Lee Atkinson. age 8, of Detroit, MI  fort his question;

How can squirrels find the nuts they bury?

Warm winter’s day brings out the sassy little: squirrels in the woods and parks. They are not very sound sleepers and they tend to get hungry for a mid‑winter snack. That fellow over there; is digging furiously in the snow.  He is looking for a hoard of nuts, nuts he so carefully stored away in the: fall for. just such an emergency.

Does he find a hidden pantry? No, he doesn't. He stops digging after a minute or so and skitters of to another likely place. This time he is lucky. His little front paws did; down between the ground roots of a tree. There he finds a welcome cache of four fat hickory nuts, He sits down on his round haunches, tail up and gracefully curved, and begins to dine. Pretty soon he feels sleepy and goes back to his hide‑out.

The squirrel does not remember where he hides his winter food. So the squirrel does just what he did when hiding the nuts, He investigates all the likely places in which nuts could or should be hidden, Many of the food stores are forgotten altogether and  the nuts get a chance to grow into trees.