So, it's more interesting than this. The trees are playing the squirrels. There's a normal amount of acorns that can support a normal amount of squirrels. But once every few years, the trees make a bunch more acorns. More than the normal amount of squirrels can eat. But not frequent enough that the number of squirrels increase. So the squirrels go crazy and hide em everywhere that year, but there's no way they can eat them all, so there are a bunch of acorns planted.
Tldr: trees manipulate # of acorns to get squirrels to plant more.

Acorn trees? You mean oak trees?

But not for you, only for your grand x 100 children

What a hero, single-handedly counteracting deforestation. You go squirrel man, you go!

"Accidentally"
"Forgetting"

So all the clever squirrels die of malnutrition?

Makes me wonder which mechanism has limited human intelligence.

That was the goal all along.

Squirrels in it for the long con.

Ah yes the Sarah Silverman bit in a meme

Huh, I'm not a squirrel expert at all but I understood that they're pretty good at remembering their stashes.