Living on the Edge - How Food-Caching Chickadees survive harsh winter

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Vladimir Pravosudov is a Foundation Professor and a Trevor J. McMinn Endowed Research Professor in Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr Pravosudov received his M.S. degree in Zoology at the University of Leningrad in Russia in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Zoology at the Ohio State University in

1997. Dr. Pravosudov is a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a fellow of the American Ornithological Society.

Dr. Pravosudov's research investigates spatial cognition associated with food caching behavior in chickadees which rely on thousands of food caches scattered throughout their home ranges to survive winter and have specialized spatial cognition needed to recover these caches.