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HUMMINGBIRD WRISTWATCH
(Friday Church News Notes, November 15, 2013, www.wayoflife.org,
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The following is from Creation Moments , October 30, 2013,
www.creationmoments.com: "When you remember something that
happened and where and when it happened, you are using what scientists
call episodic memory. Scientists have traditionally thought that such
memory was unique to man. Other scientists suspected that possibly some
creatures may have episodic memory. For example, take the hummingbird
with its fast metabolism. They need to eat often and remember where
reliable sources of nutrition are to be found. At the same time,
different flowers regenerate nectar at different rates. Researchers went
to the natural habitat of the rufous hummingbird, equipped with some fake
flowers and sugar water. The manmade flowers were constructed with
reservoirs that could hold the sugar water. Half the flowers were
refilled ten minutes after a bird would feed from it, while the other
half were refilled twenty minutes after a feeding. Researchers found that
the birds quickly learned which flowers were filled at which intervals.
They soon returned to the flowers that were filled every ten minutes at
ten-minute intervals while they waited twenty minutes in between visits
to the other flowers. They noted that the birds did a good job of this
even though they were keeping track of eight flowers. It makes more sense
to believe that episodic memory is a sophisticated ability that is the
gift from a caring God to those creatures whom He knew would need
it."
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John