Caching birds hide many thousands of seeds in order to retrieve them later when food is scarcer. This behavior requires

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Caching birds hide many thousands of seeds in order to retrieve them later when food is scarcer. This behavior requires excellent learning and memory abilities. During the breeding season, females sit on the nest a lot, and males spend a lot of time retrieving caches. During this time, male pinyon jays make fewer errors than females do when retrieving seeds from caches they have made. What do these data tell us about the costs and benefits of the ability to learn? O This form of learning is not costly. O Neither is true. O The sex difference at this time of year suggests that spatial memory is costly because females lose the ability relative to males when their priority is nest incubation.