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April 6
Do crows exhibit handedness, i.e when they land do they usually fold their right wing over the left, left over right, or show no preference?69.144.60.218 (talk) 23:25, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Since they don't have hands, handedness as applied to crows always seems to apply to how they use their feet, e.g. when manipulating sticks. A web search for handedness and crows find plenty of suggestions of handedness in this sense, but I can't find anything about how they fold their wings.--Shantavira|feed me 07:39, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- The more general term is laterality (includes species that don't have hands). And yes, crows do exhibit laterality:
- —2606:A000:1126:28D:F935:C7E2:FE1:E49 (talk) 06:26, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]