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🐿️ Squirrel Nut Caching: Winter Survival, Foraging and Energy Lab

A red squirrel buries acorns and hazelnuts through autumn and digs them up in winter in a 3D woodland, while Kleiber metabolism, cold stress, optimal foraging (marginal value theorem), cache theft, rot and spatial memory decide whether its energy lasts until spring. An experiment finds how many cached nuts one winter needs and compares the agent simulation with an analytic energy balance.

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A red squirrel buries acorns and hazelnuts through autumn and digs them up in winter in a 3D woodland, while Kleiber metabolism, cold stress, optimal foraging (marginal value theorem), cache theft, rot and spatial memory decide whether its energy lasts until spring. An experiment finds how many cached nuts one winter needs and compares the agent simulation with an analytic energy balance.

SquirrelOptimal ForagingEnergy BudgetScatter HoardingEcology

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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