It's not just humans that are left or right-handed. Scientists have found that common bottlenose dolphins show a preference for their right side when it comes to foraging for food on the seabed.
It's not just humans that are left or right-handed. Animals also show a clear preference for what scientists call"lateralized behavior."
Reindeer herds tend to circle in a counter-clockwise direction; giraffes move their left leg first when splaying their legs; chimpanzees and gorillas show a significant right-hand bias, while orangutans show the opposite. Now, scientists have found that common bottlenose dolphins show a preference for their right side when it comes to foraging for food on the seabed. Dr.
Rare dolphin birth caught on camera 01:13Around 90% of humans are right-handed, while in animals the ratio is usually around 80/20, Kaplan said.The researchers captured more than 10 hours of video footage between 2012 and 2018 as the dolphins swam near the seabed and scanned for eels and fish in the sand though echolocation -- using the echoes of their clicks to find the buried food.
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