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

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Joly, Marine ^a   Scheumann, Marina ^a   Zimmermann, Elke ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGING; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; SCANDENTIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TUPAIA BELANGERI; ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; HAND STRENGTH; LIMB; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SORICIDAE; TUPAIA BELANGERI; TUPAIIDAE;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; MALE; POSTURE; TUPAIA;

EID: 84861588153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038228     Document Type: Article

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