Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), small North American passerine birds that live in deciduous and mixed forests, have extraordinary memories that can recall the locations of thousands of morsels of food to help them survive the winter.
The authors liken the newly discovered hippocampal barcodes to computer hash codes, which are patterns assigned as unique identifiers to different events.
Could the birds be using something analogous to a spatial Bloom filter?
Could the birds be using something analogous to a spatial Bloom filter?