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Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales

Many species make their living by scavenging from kills made by other species. Observational knowledge posits that they do this by following predators around. Lorretto et al. tested this assumption by tagging ravens, wolves, and cougars in Yellowstone National Park. They found that the ravens weren’t following the predators; instead, they regularly returned to sites where they had encountered wolf kills before, like bats returning to known fruiting trees at the right time. These results suggest that scavengers may also use spatial memory of ephemeral resources in their search for food. 

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Philippine Jungle Crow (Corvus philippinus), ALBINO, family Corvidae, order Passeriformes, Mindanao, Philippines

 Andaman Masked Owls (Tyto deroepstorffi), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, endemic to the Andaman Islands of India

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