Friday, 29 May 2015

Birds, not just mammals, copy yawns


Date: May 28, 2015

Source: Springer Science+Business Media

Summary: Have you ever caught yourself yawning right after someone else did? The same happens to budgies. Biologists have just noted that contagious yawning also occurs between members of a bird species. Contagious yawning was previously thought only to occur between humans, domestic dogs, chimpanzees and a type of rodent aptly called the high-yawning Sprague-Dawley rat.

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