Memory and hibernation in Citellus lateralis.
Squirrels learned to escape from a water bath by making a visual discrimination. Twenty-four hours after reaching criterion for learned behavior, the animals were exposed to the first of two 11-day cold exposures. The animals that hibernated had better retention of the learned behavior.
D000818:Animals; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004924:Escape Reaction; D005260:Female; D006605:Hibernation; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D012193:Reversal Learning; D012589:Sciuridae; D012737:Sex Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013997:Time Factors