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The Eurasian jay and acorns – a symbiosis – Arboriculture

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The Eurasian jay and the acorn – a match made in heaven?

Currently, I am on chapter 6 of Vera’s book Grazing Ecology and Forest History , and there’s a great sub-chapter (6.2.2) that explores the relationship between the Eurasian jay ( Garrulus glandarius ) and the oak. I learned a lot from reading this specific segment of the book, and thus hope that others also find the following information useful. Firstly, one can certainly recognise that oak trees in Europe ( Quercus petraea and Quercus robur ) do not generally regenerate in woodland. Whilst acorns do germinate, after a period of usually less than a decade, they cease to be, as they

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