While humans are considered to be right-handed or left-handed, there are many animals in the wildlife which also tend to use only their left or right legs or other tools gifted to them.

Entomologists place grasshoppers, locusts, crickets, and mantises in a single order, the Orthoptera, while cicadas belong to the order Homoptera. But modern taxonomies do not necessarily reflect popular perception of animals today, much less the ways in which creatures have been regarded over the centuries.