Date: January 22, 2018
Source: Queen's University
Belfast
Summary:
Researchers at Queen's University
Belfast have found that female cats are much more likely to use their right paw
than males.
Dr Louise McDowell, Dr Deborah
Wells and Professor Peter Hepper from the School of Psychology at Queen's,
recruited 44 cats for the study and found that while there was no overall
population preference like the human preference for right handedness, there was
a gender preference. The findings have been published in Animal Behaviour.
Until now, studies on limb
preference of animals have focused solely on forced experimental challenges.
However, in the Queen's study, the cats -- 24 male and 20 female and all
neutered -- were studied in their own homes so that information could be
gathered as they went about their everyday tasks.
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