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= April 6 =

Crow handedness
Do crows exhibit handedness, i.e when they land do they usually fold their right wing over the left, left over right, or show no preference?69.144.60.218 (talk) 23:25, 6 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Since they don't have hands, handedness as applied to crows always seems to apply to how they use their feet, e.g. when manipulating sticks. A web search for handedness and crows find plenty of suggestions of handedness in this sense, but I can't find anything about how they fold their wings.--Shantavira|feed me 07:39, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The more general term is laterality (includes species that don't have hands). And yes, crows do exhibit laterality:
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