In many shops
there will always be a golden cat raising a paw to "beck" to you
, which is the lucky cat
But, do you remember which hand it beckoned?
beckoning cats originally came from Japan. The general saying is that male cats will raise their right hand, symbolizing fortune and treasure, while female cats will raise their left hand, symbolizing friendship and soliciting customers.
But what we care more about is
. Is the Lucky Cat both right-handed and left-handed?
What is the real cat like? Does
cat have a dominant hand?
We call the hand we are accustomed to using as the "dominant hand", which is also one of the typical differences between left and right handed people.
But, do cats also have dominant hands?
I didn’t expect that a scientist really explored this problem.
Because it is still difficult to observe which hand is used in a normal environment, the scientist designed several very simple tasks for the cats:
task-
take out and put it in a small Food in jars.
task two
catch the cat stick.
task three
grips the toy that is gradually pulled away on the ground.
After calculating the cat’s preference for using paws (see the table below), the scientists found that for a difficult task, one cat showed obvious dominant hand, and it was also related to gender: male cats tend to use the left paw , And female cats prefer to use the right paw. For simple things like cats grabbing cat sticks and toys, the cats did not show their dominant hand.
At least now we can answer the first question: male cats prefer left paws, female cats prefer right paws.
