Posture does not matter! Paw usage and grasping paw preference in a small-bodied rooting quadrupedal mammal.

BACKGROUND: Recent results in birds, marsupials, rodents and nonhuman primates suggest that phylogeny and ecological factors such as body size, diet and postural habit of a species influence limb usage and the direction and strength of limb laterality. To examine to which extent these findings can b...

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Main Authors: Marine Joly, Marina Scheumann, Elke Zimmermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3364208?pdf=render