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If you are left-handed in a right-handed world, you know about the challenges this can bring. But humans are not the only "lateralised" animals. US researchers in the Bahamas have found that bottlenose dolphins have a dominant right side, much like the majority of humans. The flipper bias was displayed by a group of 27 dolphins while echo-locating prey near the ocean floor. They made a sharp turn to the left, burying their snouts into the sand, thereby keeping their right-side and eye down. Marine biologist at Cambridge University, Dr James Herbert-Read, explains that there is a growing body of evidence that shows that many species display lateral bias. Image: A bottlenose dolphin. Credit: Getty Creative Stock / iStock
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