Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth

by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Clark’s Nutcrackers use prodigious memory. Really think of what they can remember, that is, cache locations from two years, that is 20,000 locations. However, each of these locations has a number of aspects that have to be remembered as well: 1) every cache that still has seeds and which ones do not; 2) overflight visual recognition of the general location of all 20,000; 3) the landscape features they are using for triangulation for all 20,000—that is 40,000 landscape features; 4) the exact spot on the landscape feature from which to measure—40,000 of them; 5) the distance from feature one—20,000 distances; 6) the distance from feature two—another 20,000 distances.