Squirrel Memory test? MUST SEE!!!!!

[val1527219]

I used to be able to do that until I took a penis to the vagina

[val1527219]

Look at that squirrel sitting on the rooftop scheaming his evil plans.

[TheLondon22]

if this is true why do they dig up my garden looking for 1 nut if you seen my garden you would think i had moles in it i Dont think they use there memory at all i think its just years of luck or in my case bad luck they are all born with memory loss

[DickGhostmoon]

@TheLondon22 lol yes maybe. I wish I lived in London with a garden.

[XxAmyLowxX]

Cool! Haha the squirrel is so cute

[ahdulay]

Amazing! 

[JDog5555545]

wow

[chocoholicSISTA263]

i hate them..they;re annoying :p u just want to step on them cos all they do is nod and eat nuts...(i know..)

[Intr0spector]

I love squirrels and have 4 regulars in my garden and perhaps another 6-10 occasional raiders. I've known they are highly intelligent for a reason. I have to say my squirrels would have found the nuts once they were moved to another cup. they would always look first in the prime cup, but would always check, the surrounding area thoroughly. Perhaps it's because I'm always playing tricks on them and they have become more adaptable.

[DickGhostmoon]

@Intr0spector Oh that's interesting, you ought to film them, I'd like to see you playing tricks on them. I played tricks with my squirrels too and they seemed to love the attention.

[Intr0spector]

@DickGhostmoon I have uploaded some squirrel clips if you check my username. But they are not close up and my camera isn't great. If I had a decent camera I'd film them all day. I've seen them do perfect backwards somersaults, gang up 5 on 1 with a domestic cat, fight steal each others nuts, superman dive 10 feet off a brick wall. Every day is another squirrel adventure lmao

[bubblemuffinxp]

i love watching squirrels :3

[fcycles]

I found one squirrel in my place which try to open a plastic bag to eat what was inside. I pass by him and normally he should have go away but was busy trying to get what I though was nuts in this plastic bag. When I came back later, I found the plastic bag empty on the grass. I could saw where he open it. But, when I read what was inside that bag... I found out it was pure chocolate, no nuts!?!?

[DickGhostmoon]

@fcycles Good one. They will eat anything.

[fcycles]

@DickGhostmoon Would they prefer chocolate to nuts? I know birds seem to prefer meet rather than bread! When I give a small part of meet to birds.. other start to attack the one who get the bite! While bread does not make that angry and furious effect.

[DickGhostmoon]

@fcycles I love how you write.  It's so different but yet easy to read. I will do an experiment to find out if they choose chocolate over nuts.

[fcycles]

@DickGhostmoon Thanks! Let me know the results... I would be curious to know how it end up?

[ShilgenVens]

Did you use the same red taped cup for the second part of the test? The red cup may have smelled like nuts if you re-used the same one.

[DickGhostmoon]

@ShilgenVens No I replaced them all with black ones.

[ShadowSoldior]

So squirrels are still pretty stupid, just not as stupid as originally percieved, gotcha.

[WeedySparx]

@ShadowSoldior and you're as ignorant as ever.

[1isaacmusic]

Did you try moving the whole row over 1/2 feet so the cup stayed in the same spot, but the position in the order of cups was different ? Great video, thanks.

[Rokerlund]

This is a great video on animal behavior. Well done!

[CelestialMare]

Aww :)

[josevanreyes]

I done this a few days ago and what the squirrel did was force my trousers off and anally raped and molested me. :(

[poised4u2]

@josevanreyes I suggest u report that 2 a rape crisis center immediately.

[HenryDavidT]

Your little experiment confirmed my own observation. I scattered almonds all over pebbles many the same size as the nuts & unless the squirrels come immediately upon one, they won't know where a nut is, even if it is just a couple inches from their nose. They would still be frantically searching, turning this way and that... I've watched two litters from pups to adulthood the last 10 months, so your observation that for squirrels it's mostly spatial mapping, memory, & sight was on target.

[DickGhostmoon]

@HenryDavidT Do you have video?

[HenryDavidT]

@DickGhostmoon No, I don't have video. But the ground outside my windows is elevated, so the pebbles/nuts are just one foot down, 2-3 feet away.... so I can put my nose next to the windows & see the squirrels no more than 2-3 away, so I can see them very clearly. I saw David Attenborough's observation (LIFE OF MAMMALS) about color-blind squirrels knowing the difference between two kinds of pine nuts which are just tiny shade difference, which is hardly visible & I got curious...

[shockArama]

Ok this is mega wired this guy in my art class this guy thinks squirrels are hot :/ creep because they ryem with girls

[chokladpuding]

he is smell were they are

[ShadowSoldior]

@chokladpuding No, he is not, did you even watch the video? If he could smell where the nuts were he'd have found them under the other cup when the guy moved them. He didn't find them, just kept going to the red cup, because he remembered that the red cup was the one that had nuts under it before.

[RaptorDiablo]

DUDE YOUR AWESOME :D.

[Reyneeru]

squirrels has bad memory

[jtking2504]

I tried this at home but I kept picking the wrong cup.

[kickassDOM]

I like squirrels

[lexmark136]

@kickassDOM me too, they're delisious

[laylarocks100]

so coooooool!!!

[TheTonecity]

the closet i ever been to a squirrel

[jacketnipple]

nope actually they see colors NOPE fuck you OVER RULED XD

[DickGhostmoon]

@jacketnipple you didn't see the end of the video then. Over ruled your over rule.

[Dannnneh]

nots

[DickGhostmoon]

@ArterialSum1 I hope they don't figure out how to unscrew your oil cap and start dropping nuts in! otherwise that might be expensive to fix.

[battletoads22]

What about roasted, salted peanuts? Would that make a difference?

[DickGhostmoon]

@battletoads22 If I geve them salted peanuts then they will be expecting a pint of beer to go with it.

[battletoads22]

@DickGhostmoon That's British squirrels for ya.

[MissBitch300]

Ok I didn't care why they had to say reapply but that squirrel was fucking cute

[MrMrstupid200]

Ya it's the only cup with red stripes. Thats how the squirrel knows

[dansw58]

thank god squirrels don't smell nuts we have debunked that "squirrels are gay" myth

[Fenn3k]

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHA 1:05 soofunnny ;D

[sugapieful]

So cute!

[FreeHealthBooks]

I would try to remove fourth cup at all.

And also I would put them in circle to see how they will react. :)

[DickGhostmoon]

@FreeHealthBooks Good one. That might have confused them.

[matthiashaenni]

Very cute vid!

[DickGhostmoon]

@matthiashaenni Thanks, oh and your video response is awesome. love the close up shots.

[matthiashaenni]

@DickGhostmoon Thank you so much for approving my video response! I appreciate it very much :-) :-) :-) Your vid is really very cute!

[Jackalofdeath]

pretty cool video solely cause its a typical 'im bored' fun thing to do

[McDaidUSA]

Squirrels are very fun creatures, and I think your experiment was great! Can't wait for the next test of their abilities! I agree from my own observations that they have no sense of smell for nuts and also that they can barely see nuts in your hand as you hld them out to them since they will often just try to eat your finger instead of take the nuts! But the are cute and easily trained to come down from their trees when they hear a clicking noise as long as you have nuts for them!

[DickGhostmoon]

@McDaidUSA That's a good point. If they bite it's usually an accident because they're cautious. It's not a good idea to test their reaction by startling them because they are masters of escape and will do the unexpected. One time my phone startled a Squirrel and quick as a flash he jumped at my face. I never saw him coming, and he was gone when I realised what had happened.

[McDaidUSA]

@DickGhostmoon Wow, I've never had one jump at me like that! And when they bit my finger it was gentle, and I had a leather glove on. Today I was sad to see a lone squirrel sitting out on a tree limb again today, looks sick I think, at least his tail fur is all thinned out, and he doesn't move much. The trees here are full of squirrel dens, and apparently none of the other squirrels will let him in, and it is freezing out. I worry that he might not make it.

[dotwaters]

Cant they smell you idiots

[sk8bow]

pattern building.

[loseit2216]

hmm a squirrel who like nuts.. must be gay

[ryanpal37]

THAT SO COOL I AM UPSECE WITH Squirrel

[gabrielfrancois]

You should try the same experiment moving the entire set of cups to a differnent spot where he can see them, and see if, one he goes to the cup and 2 if, since it will be a total different "route" to get to the cups, he will start fresh and check every cup or would go to the same positioned cup.

[shredderofmass]

Wanna see a funny squirrel, search for "Squirrel eats an onion"

[spiritgirl2796]

I want to try it! lol All I need now is a squirrel....

[300pzl]

there are gray squirrels in Europe?

[DickGhostmoon]

@300pzl Sure. They outnumber the red squirrels in England.

[ColdplayKid112]

I love how he's just stalking them xD

[Superegio42]

That's not fair! Sampled squirrel lives on MIT campus, therefore it is an extremely intelligent specimen. Try that with one from....say, Duke or Notre Dame, LOL!

[TheNwoRebellion]

doesnt the nuts leave a smell in the old used cup???????????

[DickGhostmoon]

@TheNwoRebellion I thought of that so I tested it at the end of the video.

[Sweetheartbabez]

@TheNwoRebellion no it doesnt remember he kept changing the colors of the cup and even used new cups...so the squrrel wasnt relying on smell but its memory

[TheNwoRebellion]

@Sweetheartbabez yeea DickGhostmoon already said that, thanks anyway

[Sweetheartbabez]

@TheNwoRebellion kk <3

[Hectom8]

@TheNwoRebellion theere would also be amsell in the other cup aswell. it would check the rest if it was by smell..

[Insidapc]

Interesting stuff man...

[lizdepalma]

Amazing I love it!

[DickGhostmoon]

@LICKETYSPLITALNG its not rocket science to check the date of this video because I made this video a full year before that boy did. He copied me.

[TheBlackB0X]

Why are there people that don't like the video? How strange.

[jasiucasic2]

i like your vid, how the hell do you have pacience to sit there that long though?? haha, i would be soo tempted to make a quick movement to scare the squirrel away or something haha

[DickGhostmoon]

@jasiucasic2 Thanks, I wish I had it on film but those squirrels liked to scare eachother. One of them jumped straight at my face when another squirrel creaped up on him. They laugh as well.

[fidgetingfinch]

Aw, so cute. Great vid, very interesting.

[Ashley1599]

learn somethin new every day :)

[wildflower654]

2:28 assassins creed squirrel XD

[THEWARWILLNEVEREND]

@wildflower654 LMFAO :D

[finalsora120]

We dont get squirrels in the part of UK im in,

........would birds work? XD

[DickGhostmoon]

@finalsora120 Actually I've studied seaguls, intended to post a video about them, they are much smarter than we've ever given them credit.

[finalsora120]

@DickGhostmoon Oh, well then screw the term "Bird Brain"

[julzabro]

Wow....! Kewel!

[vedderclone]

nice job

[WATCHTHISSTUPIDVIDEO]

I DID THIS IN MY BACKYARD COOL IT WORKS! I LOVE MY SQUIRREL.

[bestlives]

This is a Great experiment! With an experiment like this the researcher(you) is trying to learn something new about behavious in the world, an explanation of ‘why’ something happens and you did a good job, the  thing about observing animals in the wild is that its a true experiment, because it does isolate and manipulate an independant variable. I must say that the penultimate stage of the experiment was very clear and did prove they do not smell. Awesome!!

[carpii]

Great experiment, especially since it disproves something that was widely believed to be based on smell

It would have been interesting to see what he'd do if the adjacent black cup was removed, leaving only 4 cups, with the red cup at the end.

[molceonly]

good job indeed! very highly educative... thanks mate

[MegaSkya]

Love this. Just wondering, why didn't this guy just use less tape and put tape only on one cup? :) ? I think perhaps the squirrels have a highly tuned nose for all things nutty?!

[MegaSkya]

Love this. Just wondering, why didn't this guy just use less tape and put tape only on one cup? :) ?

[56507ryan]

A very well conducted scientific experiment.

[supercjrocker]

WOW.. amazing

[sadgreen]

my question is, how many locations can they remember when they hide 10,000 nuts as you said. It will ofcourse be much easier to remember which one from 5 given locations (that are clearly marked) but when it comes to hiding them underground all over the place...

Anyways nice analysis (I definitely learned from it), always wanted to know whether squirrels have any sense of location at all (cause it always looked to me that they were randomly searching)

[knatedog]

nice vid i didnt know they were tht smart

[NewfiePaintballer]

now this, is actually really interesting

[MrEmulation]

Nice experminent bro. Don't listen to these haters because their jealous because they didn't pay attention in school. Now they're flipping burgers at McDonalds, trying to make a living.

[DickGhostmoon]

@MrEmulation Thanks, lol

[MrEmulation]

@DickGhostmoon almost 200,000 views and you still read every comment? Thats dedication. If you reply to this one = sub

[DickGhostmoon]

@MrEmulation yep I still read the comments, if you do sub then you'll probably forget who I am because it might be Christmas next time I post a video. You'll be thinking "who the hell is this in my inbox" lol

[MrEmulation]

@DickGhostmoon I haven't even seen your other videos. None the less, you did reply so you get a new subscriber.

[DickGhostmoon]

@MrEmulation yipee thanks for the sub : ) its good to have you on board.

[ThomasWinkworth]

@MrEmulation Doesn't matter you flip burgers for a living... Grow up

[MrEmulation]

@ThomasWinkworth Looks like someone isn't happy with their life...

[ThomasWinkworth]

@MrEmulation erm?

[TejasM14]

@MrEmulation Exactly, possessing intelligence is teated being uncool when you are a youngster. But when you grow up and get that high paying job, everyone wishes they were you.

[GhostRecon756]

He looks so Fluffy!!!

[DickGhostmoon]

@TheReVoLuTiiOnZz How come you removed your comment - "Epic fail at 1:07" I like a good sense of humour.

[TheReVoLuTiiOnZz]

@DickGhostmoon haha, i feel tight.

[BeAnBeAn22]

This is cool but it better not be fake.

[ES7upyours]

what makes you think the squirrel cant smell the nuts when the cups turned over?

[jamievang111]

wow cool experiment.

[lonewolfM16]

he can probably can smell the nuts however since the smell is mixed throughout the area he knows there are nuts nearby but not where they are

[secgem]

Very cute! ;) Interesting that he doesn't notice them by smell ...

[Bbfishman]

you should try nd get laid rather than hang out with squirrels...this seems a big weird

[DickGhostmoon]

@Bbfishman lol I'd rather watch squirrels than get nob rot from laying around.

[Bbfishman]

@DickGhostmoon lol fair enough

[Sicj]

@DickGhostmoon Don't listen to those haterz! This was great my family watched this video, they all thought it was really neat. Understanding these animals is so crucial. So many regard them as pests .. instead of putting feeders out.. they trap em and kill em.. pretty ridiculous imo. So many people can't share.

[DickGhostmoon]

@Sicj Thanks great comment.

[hellknight1984]

@Sicj Yea, we have a pear tree here at my moms house and I love feeding the little buggers at the end of summer and helping them get ready for the winter. I mean, people LOVE birds and they crap on your cars lol. I don't mind squirrels at all.

[Janusha]

In England these american imported squirrels are everywhere. At most I saw 11 squirrels at once in one garden. Cute as they are, they were imported by some gentleman to have on his land and they quickly out conquered the domestic european red squirrel due to their adaptability and lack of shyness. They are therefore often considered pests and some people trap or even shoot them. Often considered cute rats in the same way pidgeons are considered rats with wings.

[JanushaISAFAGGOT]

@Janusha Norway invented the squirrel dumbass...

[crazygeek777]

@JanushaISAFAGGOT right like the germany invented humans?

[crazygeek777]

@JanushaISAFAGGOT very poor trolling btw

[Ludwigtremblay]

Could it be that the cup and spot it was layed on has a stronger «sent» of nuts even when the nut are removed from it?

[NESMonster]

Wow, you just sat there with a squirrel 2 feet away. I'd have gone AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW­WWWWWWWWWWWWW ADORABLE SQUIRRREEEELLLLLL!!!!! MUST PET!!!!! and ruined the whole bloody experiment.

[TheLavalois]

Very interesting theory!!

[darket1234]

squirrel must saying: WHERE ARE MY DANM NUTS!!! give me back my nut cup or i'll bite you and you''ll get rabies!!!

[snap0pans]

HAHA xD that squirrel got pwn xD

[MyFuzzyPlatypus]

LOL DEAR GOD GIVE HIM THE NUTS D; Poor Squirrely!

[MrOHTEHNOES]

That car at the end looks like the one from the inbetweeners

[raguspag55]

They are good eatin, fried , barbecued, in curry sauce, hot sauce, breaded, baked, boiled, broiled, in white sauce, in chili sauce, in tomatillo sauce, shooo even microwaved. You just have to make sure you gut em good, let em soak overnight in saltwater, I sometimes pressure cook em in potatoes/ carrot / onion mixture. Little water and salt to taste. Yummy little shits.

[AngelofInsomnia]

Many thanks, thoroughly enjoyable.

[HeedfulGibbon]

Excellent home experiment! I also noticed that he went for ther second cup from the wall almost every time. Lookes like they used landmarks as well as color to locate the nuts. 5 stars

[KANDAM808]

omg i tryed this and no squirrels came D: but then i realized that squirrels don't live in hawaii o.0

[happypants07]

wow nice experiment. I noticed that there were some variables not accounted for at first but you cleared them up at the end with the different color cups. Good Job Matey!

[BliickfanQTv]

pls make your vid's in Stereo ... ^.^

[zenislevas]

For me all the sound comes from Right.... >.>

[EuJinho]

squireeelllss so cute

[m1aws]

Kill all grey squirrels.

[DarthKaiden]

i got an idea WHO THE F CARES

[PersonWithAnAccount7]

23 people dont know where their nuts are lol

[ak47mayham]

Dude. No homo but squirrels are so freakin cute. My friend found a baby squirrel when lightning took a tree out in the neighborhood. He kept it and name it sunny lol. He stayed in the oak tree outside his house but when he called for him he would jump from the tree to my friends shoulder

[DickGhostmoon]

@ak47mayham cool

[teeei78]

@ak47mayham That's really cool, he should make a video of it ;-)

[msbuch72]

@ak47mayham no homo? Are you serious? That is about the gayest thing you can say. It proves that your every thought is penetrated by gay sex.

[ak47mayham]

@msbuch72 hey there queer basher calm down and besides look at you overly gay disco mustache. You are right, im 100% gay, now can i get a mustache ride you old liver spotted piece of shti.

[catshumpcats3]

@ak47mayham thats sweet

[shredsheffield]

can`t you barbeque squirrels?

[PersonWithAnAccount7]

@shredsheffield i do

[RedLifeBenfica]

"Will he be able to smell the nuts under this pot ?" ... BREAK ... MIC CHECK ... "Lets find out!"

[rampager89]

2:31... its watching you... cause its miffed that the nuts weren't in the same position as before... it knows who's responsible... :O

:D

[P0P357UR3]

Im looking forward to your future antics!

[ELITEattacker]

lol no squirrels would come in ma garden

[MjZCooLAiD]

cool

[XKnightLightX]

cool, i thought my earphonees were broken again lol..

[DickGhostmoon]

@XKnightLightX yeah sorry about the sound quality its degraded over time.

[LonelyWolfesss]

23 People don't like squarrels :(

I might try this, we have 2 squarrels outside they always come around and look at the same spot where we give them nuts

[P1GW33NY]

1:06 FAIL!

[razer0072073]

And you cross your legs for 3 days straight looking at squirrels?