Western animal behavior and cognition researchers tracked the spatial cognition and lifespan of 227 mountain chickadees for more than a decade. They found the birds with better spatial learning and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mountain chickadees struggle with snow extremes. Benjamin Sonnenberg Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb ...

Usually, forgetting where you put your coffee cup down doesn’t have a major impact on the rest of your life – you can easily retrieve another cup of coffee (and find the other one later, in a cabinet ...

Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places where humans have altered the landscape in some way, finds new CU Boulder ...

While there is no denying ‘survival of the fittest’ still reigns supreme in the animal kingdom, a new study shows being smartest – or at least smarter – is pretty important, too. Western University ...

Benjamin Sonnenberg receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb above 8,000 feet in the Sierra Nevada of eastern California, ...