Social touch is an important aspect of human social interaction-across all cultures, humans
engage in kissing, cradling and embracing. These behaviors are necessarily asymmetric …

In this paper, we present a review of the current knowledge related to the cognitive abilities
of the manatee, with a focus on the Antillean manatee in situ and ex situ. Following a …

The majority of cetacean research suggests a right side/left cerebral hemisphere bias for
processing visuospatial information and a left side/right cerebral hemisphere bias for …

Accelerating levels of human-elephant conflicts (HEC) have become a topic of major
concern in conservation efforts of endangered Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) …

African elephants Loxodonta africana and Asian elephants Elephas maximus are not
thriving in many captive settings and are threatened throughout their native ranges. Many …

Findings on nonprimate mammals place the issue of mother–infant lateralized relations in a
broader context, demonstrating that humans are one of many species showing this feature …

The manifestation of behavioural lateralization has been shown to be modified by
environmental conditions, life experiences, and selective breeding. This study tests whether …

Despite the abundant empirical evidence on lateralized social behaviours, a clear
understanding of the relative roles of two brain hemispheres in social processing is still …

Several studies have shown that emotions are asymmetrically represented in the human
brain and have proposed three main models (the 'right hemisphere hypothesis', the …

Lateralization of hand use in primates has been extensively studied in a variety of contexts,
and starts to be investigated in other species and organs in order to understand the …