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Published online 21 March 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070319-6
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'Here boy' makes dogs wag to the right
Direction of tail wagging highlights different tasks of brain halves.
Dogs wag their tails to the right when they see something they want to approach, and to the left when confronted with something they want to back away from, say researchers in Italy. The finding provides another example of how the right and left halves of the brain do different jobs in controlling emotions.
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