Higher Vertebrates (Mammals and Birds) Exhibit Lateralized Behaviors, Commonly Referred

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Essay

Higher vertebrates (mammals and birds) exhibit lateralized behaviors, commonly referred to as “handedness.” Recently an investigator studied the coiling behavior of the Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma – more commonly known as the cottonmouth snake.
The cottonmouth is a venomous snake that spends much of its time in a coil, sometimes coiled in a counter-clockwise direction, other times in a clockwise direction. The investigator made many observations of coiling behavior, and calculated a “laterality index” for 30 cottonmouths. He defined the laterality index for each snake as the percentage of observations of the snake that were categorized as coils in the counterclockwise direction.
-Using your box plots , compare the distributions of laterality index formales and females. Justify your comparisons by appealing to specific aspects of thebox plots constructed in .

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