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- According to professor Diane Lee at Cal State University, Long Beach, every fall the part of the chickadee's brain responsible for remembering where things are expands in volume by approximately 30 percent, stays big during the winter, and then shrinks back in the spring.
Let me say that again: They grow more brain when they need to remember things; then shrink that brain when the "remembering" season ends.