Brief communication: Captive gorillas are right-handed for bimanual feeding

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 638-645

  Meguerditchian, Adrien ^a,b   Calcutt, Sarah E ^c   Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V ^c   Ross, Stephen R ^c   Hopkins, William D ^b,d  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lincoln Park Zoo   (United States)

^d AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimanual coordination; Handedness; Hemispheric specialization; Primates; Unimanual reaching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COORDINATION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; GENDER; GORILLA; GRIP STRENGTH; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; AGE; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HAND; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GORILLA GORILLA; HAND; MALE; SEX FACTORS;

GORILLA GORILLA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77950839551     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21244     Document Type: Article

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