Laterality is the motor and sensory controls in our body.
In another words in humans is mostly identifiable as utilising either the right or left side of our body in our motor and sensory control. Most humans are right handed, although the trend from decades ago has undergone some social changes, it is said that the right side of our body is generally stronger than the left. Although it is also suggested that the left side of our brain is more dominant over the right side, because somewhere around 90-92% of humans the left hemisphere is the language hemisphere.
So in theory, if you where born with a tendency to use more your left side, but under the early social enforcement you were made to use the right side of your body, you may find it interesting that you actually have better natural aptitude to understand and develop a multiculturalism advantage when it comes to learning other languages.
But do our feathery friends i.e. parrots also have these favourite motor control tendencies?
Yes they do, and laterality in animals in this case parrots is also called limb dominance, therefore they tend to favour one foot when grasping objects i.e. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, when feeding and occasionally drumming for nesting a female such as the Palm Cockatoo.
Well I do appreciate this laterality, it is like being able to drive a car on different sides of the road – Thanks “Napoleon Bonaparte” you understood the beginnings of laterality in Europe, but only some see why.
Alberto Vale
Alberto Vale is an award-winning wildlife filmmaker, cinematographer, naturalist and citizen scientist based in Cairns, North Queensland, at the gateway to the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. For more than two decades, Alberto has combined wildlife cinematography with an intimate knowledge of tropical habitats, guided by a simple principle: to film wildlife successfully, you must first understand its habitat and behaviour. As founder and President of the Australian Quoll Conservancy (AQC), he has spent more than a decade conducting non-invasive field research on the endangered northern spotted-tailed quoll, developing non-invasive techniques to identify and monitor individual animals, breeding and behaviour without conventional trapping. Through WildCAM Australia®, Alberto has produced and directed internationally broadcast natural-history documentaries, including Green Tree Ants – Friend or Foe?, Quolls: Fast & Furious, and his latest production, Quollity Breeding, narrated by veteran Australian voice-over artist Katherine Kennard. Today, Alberto continues to combine cinematography, natural history and citizen science, using the camera not simply to capture wildlife, but to reveal behaviour, contribute to conservation knowledge and bring the hidden lives of Australia's native species to audiences worldwide.
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