Some red-headed woodpeckers in South Dakota, preferring their
meat fresh, evolved a way to keep it so which compares favorably
with the “cold storage” of man. One bird stored nearly one
hundred grasshoppers in a long crack in a post. All were living
when discovered, but so tightly wedged that they could not
escape, and during the long winter of that region it is to be
presumed the prudent bird had his provision. The observer found
other places of storage full of grasshoppers, and discovered
that the red-heads lived upon them nearly all winter.--OLIVE
THORNE MILLER, “The Bird Our Brother.”
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=Foresight, Lack of=--See PREDICTION, FALSE.