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  • Handedness in animals

    From RSNorman@21:1/5 to JustinThyme@nowhere.com on Sun Aug 9 16:54:29 2015
    On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:14:05 +0100, Justin Thyme
    <JustinThyme@nowhere.com> wrote:

    Do any animals exhibit something like left or right handedness? Could
    one sensibly speak of a gerbil, say, being left-pawed?

    Google "handedness in animals."

    Even better, use google scholar.

    Handedness is a special case of "laterality" so you might want to
    google that, also.

    Gerbils are another story.

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  • From RSNorman@21:1/5 to JustinThyme@nowhere.com on Wed Aug 12 09:43:42 2015
    On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:30:16 +0100, Justin Thyme
    <JustinThyme@nowhere.com> wrote:

    RSNorman wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:14:05 +0100, Justin Thyme
    <JustinThyme@nowhere.com> wrote:

    Do any animals exhibit something like left or right handedness? Could
    one sensibly speak of a gerbil, say, being left-pawed?

    Google "handedness in animals."

    Even better, use google scholar.

    Handedness is a special case of "laterality" so you might want to
    google that, also.

    Gerbils are another story.

    Thank you. I reason I didn't Google "handedness in animals" is that the >phrase seems silly - animals generally not having hands. And I wasn't >cognisant of the term "laterality".

    It is silly. But there is no other simple way of saying it that
    carries the right impact. I happen to know about "laterality" because
    I once had a colleague in an adjacent lab who specialized in that
    subject.

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  • From Justin Thyme@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 9 20:14:05 2015
    Do any animals exhibit something like left or right handedness? Could
    one sensibly speak of a gerbil, say, being left-pawed?
    --
    Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour?
    When the storm is ended shall we find
    How softly but how swiftly they have sidled back to power
    By the favour and contrivance of their kind?

    From /Mesopotamia/ by Rudyard Kipling

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  • From Justin Thyme@21:1/5 to RSNorman on Wed Aug 12 14:30:16 2015
    RSNorman wrote:
    On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:14:05 +0100, Justin Thyme
    <JustinThyme@nowhere.com> wrote:

    Do any animals exhibit something like left or right handedness? Could
    one sensibly speak of a gerbil, say, being left-pawed?

    Google "handedness in animals."

    Even better, use google scholar.

    Handedness is a special case of "laterality" so you might want to
    google that, also.

    Gerbils are another story.

    Thank you. I reason I didn't Google "handedness in animals" is that the
    phrase seems silly - animals generally not having hands. And I wasn't cognisant of the term "laterality".

    --
    Shall we only threaten and be angry for an hour?
    When the storm is ended shall we find
    How softly but how swiftly they have sidled back to power
    By the favour and contrivance of their kind?

    From /Mesopotamia/ by Rudyard Kipling

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