Posted on 01/21/2020 3:20:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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A new study notes that squirrels have dominant sides to their bodies and are left or right-handed, just like humans.
The research looked at 30 wild gray squirrels (12 of which were able to give sufficient data) and found that those who showed a preference for a certain paw while performing experiments were not as adept in learning new tasks as those who did not show a preference.
"It has been suggested that being strongly lateralized makes brains more efficient, with each hemisphere focusing on different tasks," said the study's lead author, Lisa Leaver, in a statement. "This could help animals survive, which would explain the evolution of laterality across the animal kingdom."
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You can also tell if a squirrel is female by how well they can throw a baseball with their preferred hand.
I maybe can loan one of ‘em my left-handed, metric crescent wrench.
Do the poor left handed squirrels get discriminated against like us?
who paid for that useless info
The one essential tool left handed reject me has been missing.
This whole study is just nuts.
Blood thirsty if left-handed. Works with humans, too.
I came in here looking for the matching Far Side cartoon.
Disappointed.
Which government agency funded this study? What use is it to know this?
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/lifestyle/dog-right-or-left-pawed/
Is Your Dog Right- or Left-Pawed?
. One study showed that ambilateral dogs exhibit slightly less aggression toward strangers. In fact, it was the left-pawed dogs that showed that behavior the most. (
“The one essential tool left handed reject me has been missing.”
I could part with it for a price...
what about gerbils?
Didn’t we already know this about mammals in general?
Somebody got grant money for this?
Any cat owner could tell you animals are “handed”.
Dream job for the ADHD sufferer:
“So I was filling out my grant application and ... Oh, look! A left-handed squirrel!!!”
Elephants are mostly right-tusk oriented. The tusk that shows the most wear or which gets broken first indicates their preference.
Just like sympathy for the polar bears was a ploy to get people to agree to spend trillions to save arctic ice and destroy capitalist economies, sympathy for left-handed squirrels will be an opening wedge to mandate discrimination against right-handed people as evil oppressors.
You already punch all the wrong buttons if you are a heterosexual white male. Soon it will be even worse to be a right-handed heterosexual white male.
I’m no squirrel...but am ambidextrous.
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