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Outside/Inbox: Can animals be right or left handed?
Every other Friday on NHPR's Morning Edition, the Outside/In team answers a question from a listener about the natural world. This week, Bill from Lyme, New Hampshire asked: "Do cats and other animals favor one side over the other as humans do? If so, why? And, within a species are there both right-sided and left-sided animals? Is there an inherent advantage to being right pawed or left pawed, or what we might term am-PAW-dextrous? "
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