Sounds like a nutty idea that could make you squirrely.

I think you have things mixed up. They're studying what happens to the nuts, not the behavior of the squirrels. I studied squirrels for about three years. Made very little.

I watched this as well. Very interesting indeed! I learned that squirrel brains enlarge during the autumn months (nut storage memory) and then decreases in size during the summer months (don’t have to find nuts).

Just watched a PBS Special last night! Love squirrels.

The little buggers are extremely intelligent. There was a two show series on them I watched one time where they set up obstacle course for them to get through to food. Each time they would solve a part of the course, the next time through, they would remember how they did it and go right to the next one. I have a "squirrel proof" feeder out front and one day there was a squirrel eating out of it. I made a bunch of noise and he dropped of, but minutes later he was up again. So the next time I chased him down I waited to see how he did it. I would not have believed it if I hadn't been watching.

I think she was a professor or in charge of a department. It didn't look very complicated what she was doing, just like geocaching using nuts buried by squirrels. The narrator said she used non-toxic paint on the nuts but what did she use to seal the holes for the micro-chips?

I read that they forget where they put most of them.