Chicks show left-to-right number bias

Like many humans, newly hatched birds favor small quantities on the left

newly hatched chick in front of numbers

LITTLE TO THE LEFT  Young chicks seem to have their own kind of mental number line with smaller quantities toward the left. 

R. Rugani

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Chicken Little knows small — and like many humans may have a left-to-right bias for a mental number line of small to big quantities.