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Up to 150 at a time, a fifth of its entire body weight.
Then it flies as much as 15 miles away, and drills the nuts into the ground in sets of ten, placing a stone on top of the stash1 to mark the site.
It goes back for more and more. Over the autumn, a single bird can bury 30,000 nuts across an area of 100 square miles. When the winter comes, it will manage to remember the location of a staggering2 70% of these seeds, even when hidden beneath the snow. But as the Clark’s Nutcracker remembers its way into surviving the winter, it becomes the whitebark’s greatest ally3.
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1 stash | |
v.藏或贮存于一秘密处所;n.隐藏处 | |
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2 staggering | |
a.惊人的 | |
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3 ally | |
n.同盟者,同盟国;vt.使结盟,与...有关联 | |
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4 feat | |
n.功绩;武艺,技艺;adj.灵巧的,漂亮的,合适的 | |
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5 germinate | |
v.发芽;发生;发展 | |
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