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  • Title: Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) handedness: variability across multiple measures of hand use.
    Author: Hopkins WD, Pearson K.
    Journal: J Comp Psychol; 2000 Jun; 114(2):126-35. PubMed ID: 10890584.
    Abstract:
    This study examined intertask consistency in handedness across multiple measures of hand use in a sample of 187 chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Hand preferences for 2 to 6 measures were collected from the sample, and hand preference scores were derived on the basis of the individual hand preferences for each measure. Seven of 15 possible intratask correlations were significant, with some degree of clustering depending on the motor demands of the tasks. Two overall measures of handedness revealed population-level right-handedness in the chimpanzees, although the degree of bias was reduced for chimpanzees tested on more than 3 measures of hand use. The results are interpreted in the context of several recent studies that proposed theoretical models of handedness in nonhuman primates.
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