How can you tell whether your dog is right-pawed or left-pawed?
From Science Magazine.
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Just as humans can be right-handed or left-handed, our canine companions often show a distinct preference for one paw over the other. In dogs, this asymmetry—known as laterality—doesn’t stop at paws: They even use different nostrils to sniff out different scents.
“Over the years, scientists have used different ways to measure paw preference,” says Marcello Siniscalchi, a veterinary physiologist at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA) who has been studying laterality in dogs for more than 20 years. “This means that there is a lot of inconsistency between results.”
Siniscalchi and Sevim Isparta, a veterinarian and behavioral neuroscientist who was also at UNIBA at the time of the study, set out to develop a more reliable test of canine paw preference. The team drew inspiration from the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, a tool commonly used to assess handedness in humans, to create an approach they have dubbed the “doginburgh inventory.”
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4BVJ5op
FOOTAGE CREDIT: MARCELLO SINISCALCHI/UNIVERSITY OF BARI ALDO MORO
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“Over the years, scientists have used different ways to measure paw preference,” says Marcello Siniscalchi, a veterinary physiologist at the University of Bari Aldo Moro (UNIBA) who has been studying laterality in dogs for more than 20 years. “This means that there is a lot of inconsistency between results.”
Siniscalchi and Sevim Isparta, a veterinarian and behavioral neuroscientist who was also at UNIBA at the time of the study, set out to develop a more reliable test of canine paw preference. The team drew inspiration from the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory, a tool commonly used to assess handedness in humans, to create an approach they have dubbed the “doginburgh inventory.”
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4BVJ5op
FOOTAGE CREDIT: MARCELLO SINISCALCHI/UNIVERSITY OF BARI ALDO MORO
#Dogs #Science #ScienceShorts
