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Is it only humans that count from left to right?

We report that adult nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana) and newborn domestic chicks (Gallus gallus) show a leftward bias when required to locate an object in a series of identical ones on the basis of its ordinal position. Birds were trained to peck at either the fourth or sixth element in a series...

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Autores principales: Rugani, Rosa, Kelly, Debbie M., Szelest, Izabela, Regolin, Lucia, Vallortigara, Giorgio
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20071393
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0960