Can animal or plant be southpaw?

Actually I became curious to this factor due to incident on the way to my home.

“I come with my friends .They all are right handed  but I am left handed .The fact is that if we are  walking on the middle of the way and on the very occasion if vehicle  comes from behind us I usually move opposite to the i.e. they usually move to the left but I will be leaved on the right which has already happened for many times. This is neither an intension nor the mare coincidence. There came the popular program , animal kingdom on the discovery channel where the fight among the animals for  would be presented .one day i realized the fact on tv .what had really happened was “5 or 6 zebras were going to their destination. The zebras were not groped and they had all the space in the world to go to left or right or any side they wished for .Immediately they were attacked by a tiger .on that condition what happened was that some zebra went left and some to right some of them ran straight and the tiger chasing them without confusion started chasing the right running zebra.”

Now it made me confuse why those animals had different direction and why that tiger headed towards right direction, it could even follow them to left or forward direction. Are there really the southpaws in animals as well???????

When I started searching about this subject I found that polar bears are probably left handed and parrots are considered to be left footed.

Similarly I believe that plants are also probably lefty or righty.

In the same condition there are two trees of same species one of which is bent to right and another to left .the most probable answer may be tropism. But which tropism has this effect .And I don’t think that on the same condition of soil and all the climatic condition this could happen. There are many same species of flower and they have branches in very different sides why???????

It is the matter of suspense for the biologist .There is still not the strong proof to state exactly weather there are lefty animals or plants. 

Good myths about left handers

v It is believed that anyone who digs coal out of the ground from under his or her left foot in the spring will have very good luck.

v If you apply an ointment with the forefinger of the right hand the sore will not heal. This is because this finger is said to be the 'poison' finger.

v The ancient Zuni tribe considered left-handedness a sign of good luck. They believed the left was the older and wiser.

v Officials in Mensa, the high IQ society believe as many as 20% of their members are left-handed.

v The first recorded Siamese twins born in 1811 were joined at the waist. Their names? Chang and Eng, which simply meant 'Left and Right'

Some myths about left handers

It is not a myth that left-handers have trouble with all sorts of everyday articles and tools but it is the threat on the heart of the left handers that if the same situation goes on then it will be very difficult for the left handers to compete with the right handers on theirs dominant society. 

Left-handers do tend to do badly whenever there is any talk of superstition or things that cannot be understood.

Bad myths about left handers

v It is predicted that evil spirits lurk over the left shoulder so we need to throw salt over this shoulder to-ward them off if any bad happens. In Roman times, salt was a very valuable commodity, giving rise to the word "salary" and was considered a form of money at the time. If salt was spilled, that was considered very bad luck that could only be avoided by throwing some of the spilled salt over your left shoulder to placate the devil.

v Joan of Arc (burned at the stake in 1431 for being a witch) was left-handed, if she was not the lefthander it would probably not happen such.

v Getting out of bed with the left foot first means that you will have a bad day and be bad tempered i.e getting out of bed the wrong side.

v A ringing in the right ear means that someone is praising you. In the left ear it means that someone is cursing or maligning you.

v An itchy right palm means that you will receive money. An itchy left palm means you will have to give money.

v Wedding rings worn on the third finger of the left hand originated with the Greeks and Romans, who wore them to fend off evil associated with the left-hand

v The Romans originally considered the left to be the lucky side and used for augury. However, they later changed back to the Greek methods and favored the right-hand side.

v The right hand often symbolizes 'male' while the left hand is 'female'.

v If you hear the sound of a cuckoo from the right it will be a lucky year. If the sound comes from the left it will be unlucky.

v The Meru people of Kenya believed that the left-hand of their holy man has such evil power that he had to keep it hidden for the safety of others.

v If your right eye twitches you will see a friend, if it's your left eye that twitches you'll see an enemy.

v When dressmaking it's believed to be bad luck to sew the left-hand sleeve onto a garment before the right sleeve.

v When leaving to go on a journey, if your right foot itches you're bound to have a good journey. If your left foot itches it will end in sorrow.

v It is thought to be bad luck to pass a drink to another person with your left-hand or anti-clockwise around a table.

v Passing or pouring wine with the left hand leads to bad luck.

v A left-handed toast is tantamount to a curse on the victim.

History of Left Handed People

“Only left handed people are right in their brain”
It is fairly safe to assume that those interested in the history of left handed people, will indeed be left handed people themselves. Right-handed people basically take their dominance for granted. However, it is a fascinating subject for all, because almost everybody knows a “leftie”, as a family member, close friend, work colleague, school pal, whoever.

Stone Age implements discovered seem equally divided between left and right and studies of cave drawings have indicated a preference for the left hand. When tools became more sophisticated, a clear hand preference emerged. The right hand preference may have originated in sun worship.

For thousands of years, the Devil has been associated with the left hand in various ways and is normally portrayed as being left-handed in pictures and other images. In the seventeenth century it was thought that the Devil baptised his followers with his left-hand .There are many references in superstitions to the "left-hand side" being associated with evil. It is also considered that we can only see ghosts if we look over our left shoulder and that the Devil watches us over the left shoulder.

In the Northern hemisphere you have to face south to follow the sun and move from left to right until the suns sets in the west. This gave moving to the right and the right hand side a great significance. Another theory says that as the heart is on the left hand side, a shield would have to be in the left hand to defend it and any weapon therefore had to be held in the right, which became the dominant hand. Recent theories have included one with the right-handedness is the normality and left-handedness is a deficiency which results from a traumatic birth! Left-handers have done quite badly over the years and many old superstitions still survive today.

Looking into the history of left handed people will shock today’s generation when they learn that in previous centuries, they would be spanked in school and chastised at home for being different. Their left hands would be tied behind their backs, in an effort to force them to write with their “correct” hand.      There used to be extreme and severe suspicions of anything left. In the history of left handed people, the Latin term for left is sinister, which in modern English can be interpreted as meaning “evil”; “menacing”; or “threatening”. By contrast, “Dexter” is the Latin word for right, which is used in a complimentary way when talking of someone well skilled in the hands, i.e. “dexterous”.                

In researching the history of left handed people, scientists have discovered that the left-hander uses both sides of their brain evenly, while the right-hander is controlled more from the left. One theory, with regard to hand preference, is that it is determined from two manifestations of a gene at the same point. These genes are referred to as the “C” and “D” genes. The D gene is more numerous and consequently leads to the majority of the population favoring their right-hand. The C gene is less likely to occur, but when it does, the hand preference of the individual will be split 50/50 between rights and left.

Throughout the history of left handed people, there have been many only too willing to cast disparaging remarks. One such person was a 19th-century Italian criminologist named Cesare Lombroso , who famously spoke of “Left-handedness being a stigma of degeneracy”. Such statements have thankfully long since disappeared from the views of the world, and it is worth remembering that, if ever on the receiving end of any derogatory comments from a “rightie”; the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body, and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body; so only left handed people are in their right mind!