Memoirous

Since this blog is organized around memoir/memories I began to wonder if animals are sentimental, long for the good ole days, wax nostalgic. From National Geographic : Dogs forget an event within two minutes. Chimpanzees, at around 20 seconds, are worse than rats at remembering things, while the memory spans of three other primates—baboons, pig-tailed macaques, and squirrel monkeys—exceeded only bees . . . Exercises with captive animals revealed that while some had great long-term memory they flunked at the short-term and visa versa. Elephants are known for having remarkable memories. From Cracked.com : Whenever they encounter the scent of another elephant's urine, an elephant can record in its computerish brain the location and direction of the pisser. This enables them to devote a sizable portion of their working memory to maintaining these expansive mental maps. Now if only my husband could pay that much attention . . . But the winner was a real bird...