Tortoises - Which Way Do They Prefer To Roll?

Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 09:01 in Biology & Nature

If one were to overturn a tortoise, would it be more likely to right itself (i.e. get back on its feet) to the right or to the left?To find out, a joint research team from the Comparative Psychology Research Group, University of Padova, Italy and the B.R.A.I.N. Centre for Neuroscience, University of Trieste, Italy, performed a unique set of experiments with 34 overturned tortoises. read more

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