Space, the original frontier

Over fifty years of work on animal cognition, enthusiasms for different topics can wax and wane. Interest in spatial once popular, has more recently waned. Some this change, however, is only apparent, as research cognition continues to evolve produce new scientific innovations. Indeed, recent technological developments enabled us now address questions raised from classic early studies. Here we review several key examples where past present approaches have intersected provide answers old concerning memory food-storing birds other laboratory animals, navigation insects, wild hummingbirds.