Squirrels take care in planting: digging to the right depth, covering the acorn, and patting the loose soil until it is tucked in just so. Squirrels have a prodigious memory for where they have hidden their stores, but they don’t remember them all. There are worse things, I think, than leaving a task undone. The oak forests of the world would not exist if squirrels did not lose track of acorns.
