A bird species interacts with a pine species, distributing its seeds in exchange for food. The bird usually buries one to fifteen seeds in a "cache." A typical bird individual will construct over 10,000 caches each year and remember where they are, but only 50-80 percent of the seeds are recovered, depending on the seed harvest and the bird's energy demands. What do you think will happen to the plant's desirable qualities (for example, seed attributes) over time, and why? What do you think will happen to the qualities of the bird that make it an efficient seed disperser throughout time, and why? How do we expect the species to affect each other's evolution?

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A bird species interacts with a pine species, distributing its seeds in exchange for food. The bird usually buries one to fifteen seeds in a "cache." A typical bird individual will construct over 10,000 caches each year and remember where they are, but only 50-80 percent of the seeds are recovered, depending on the seed harvest and the bird's energy demands. What do you think will happen to the plant's desirable qualities (for example, seed attributes) over time, and why? What do you think will happen to the qualities of the bird that make it an efficient seed disperser throughout time, and why? How do we expect the species to affect each other's evolution?

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