Wednesday 6 April 2011

6th April 2011 Contagious Yawning

There are five mammals, humans, chimpanzees, stumptail macaques, gelada baboons, and domesticated dogs,  in which contagious yawning has been observed.

In some experiments done with chimps, the chimps yawned more when members of their social group yawned than they did when members of another group yawned, maybe indicating empathy.

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