Indeed. I was there when my daughter got her first core memory. We were walking along the road in my neighborhood and came across a squirrel who got flattened by a car. On our way back we saw crows picking at it and then a vulture came and took it away. She brought up that moment a lot over the following week and still references it to this dead. "Don't play in the road or you'll get squished like the squirrel."