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Collecte de données sur les préférences manuelles d'une femelle adulte babouin

A student collects data on the manual preferences of an adult female baboon manipulating a tube filled with peanut butter. The baboon manipulates this tube with both hands to remove the food. This experiment demonstrated that they are predominantly right-handed, in the order of 61%. These baboons live in freedom in an enclosure near Rousset, in the Bouches-du-Rhône (France).

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