Reciprocal pilferage and the evolution of food-hoarding behavior

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Scatter hoarding by the Central American agouti: a test of optimal cache spacing theory (2009, unknown): “We checked the caches at 1, 7, 11, 14, 24, 29, 43 and 56 days after placement, recorded seed disappearance, and calculated the rate of removal by pilferers (as in Vander Wall & Jenkins 2003).”
Social cognition by food-caching corvids. The western scrub-jay as a natural psychologist (2007, background): “Indeed, returning to cache sites does not guarantee a cacher’s recovery success: up to 30% of caches are lost each day to pilfering by competitors (Vander Wall & Jenkins 2003).”
Linking seed dispersal to cache protection strategies (2011, background): “However, most rodents are unable to detect the weak olfactory signals released by seeds when buried and the soils are very dry (VanderWall 1998, 2000), as occurs in our aridMediterranean savanna-like landscape.”
The behaviour and evolution of cache protection and pilferage (2006, methodology): “While Smulders (1998) asserted that it must be an immediate associate of the storer, and therefore a conspecific, Vander Wall & Jenkins (2003) necessitated the thief to be a foodstorer.”
Cache protection strategies by western scrub-jays, Aphelocoma californica: implications for social cognition (2005, methodology): “The model developed by Vander Wall & Jenkins (2003) is based on solitary individuals (rodents), but western scrub-jays are semiterritorial (Curry et al. 2002).”